The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-04-18
American People Must Lend Part,
or Pay All to Finance
Great Conflict.
BUYING OF LIBERTY BONDS
Liberal Loans to Government 10 Ad-
vaneins Financial Assistance to
Our Children, obviatins Total
Cost by Taxation.
10y EUGENE p. LYLE, JR., OF Tho
v%jojIantcs.)

Freedom comes high, being n pre-
cious thing. Being the most precious
thing, II comes highest. No people Is
worthy OF freedom that Is not willing
n eager To pay dearly for II. In
fnct, you will find no people possess
Ing freedom that has not paid dearly
Tor II. and you will find no people cor
tinuing To possess freedom that does
not stand every ready To pay dearly,
over aud over, to retain It.
II this were not true, Belgium.
France, Italy and England with her
oversca ~domlnlons, would now be MS
RUSSIA Is today. If this were not
true, America would still be neutral,
tontemptibly awaiting her turn to pass
under the yoke.
Blood and treasure. anguish and sac
~ritice-these are the coin we bring
To market the coin we must pay. Yet
the coin may be, and, Is expressed in
dollars and cents. not alone as Il SYM
Dol of the real price we pay, but be-
cause this real price would be wan
tonly sq%uandered. or paid In more
CHASTITY measure than need be, II the
cold, calm, practical business OF dol
lar.and-cents financing were not at the
henrt of the heroic transaction.
Nainly would the soldier shed his
blood II he were not trained and
equipped TO make his blows count to
the utmost, and the cost Of this train
Ing and equipment Is nm item that may
he. and Is, expressed In an exact num-
her of dollars added to an eNact num-
Der of cents. His country must spend
precisely this mou to enable him to
defend her.
Consequently we of America are
now confronted with the biggest wal
bin In history. One year Of this war
Is costing us as much as all the wars
we have had before added to all the
other expenses Of our federal govern
mcnt since We first won freedom.
Lending to Our Children.
Cngrudgingly, yes! OF that we nre
proudly conscious that there Is no
question. The one and only question
Is the practical question Of finance.
How shall the money be found7 We
ourselves must supply II, since II can
not be borrowed elsewhere. But how7
The bill Is too big to pay cash on
III" nail as We go. And. furthermore.
~ pay all as we 90 would be Just
neither to ourselves nor to our pos.
terlty.
II would not be Just To ourselves
because We alone will not be the benc-
flCiurlcS. The generations to come will
benefits intellectually benefit In the lib.
critics preserved TO thcm-and II Is
proper that they should be left to as
sumo II fair proportion Of the debt.
They are buying freedom today az
much us we. But we shall have to
lend them the money now TO pay their
share. In lending 10 government
In buying Liberty bonds we lend to our
children; and gratefully our children
will pay II of.
ANY other arrangement would not
be just To them for the reason that.
should We strip ourselves bare to pay
all now, we would be crippled In pre-
pairing our children for the ordinary
duties OF citizenship. Better far that
we retain enough To so equip them for
success In life that they may without
undue hardship take over their quota
Of this wars burden Better for us,
and better for them
Sound common sense, then, rs well
ms equity, points the way. The wars
burden should be divided. Let US pay
In cash as heavily rs we wisely may
that Is taxation. But the rest let us
leave 10 the future bcnciiclarlcs, lend
Ing them the money now-thut Is buy
ing Liberty bonds.
freedoms Great Price.
The present moment ia II good time
to contemplate what will happcn-in-
evltably huppcn-lf We do not lend TO
postcrity to help pay freedoms huge
price. Nothing Is clearer than the al
tentative.