Arizona republican., 1918-04-19

Belgium and Italy are all fighting on. | a1d in addition to that, America is | fighting on with them. Ana we arc go- i ing to continue to fight on, my friends, l l. u finish, and We are going to finish 1 the kaiser, too. We are going to fight | tlis thing until doomsday, until we lv-ndicate Americas rights and make | EtIe world safe for democracy again.
 Now, ladies and gentlemen, when | you have great war, there is one fun damental thing, and that is to raise the money to supply our armies in the [ cid, to keep them in fit fighting con- dition. We must lend the government money in order that it may buy the c Jpper produced in the mines in Ari- | z ma, and other mines in Arizona, and E oes and clothing and food of all kinds lecessary for the armies in the field,
 oth our army and the armies of our allies. They ask us to lend them this credit It is to our interest to keep cir gallant soldiers in fighting condi- tn as well as the American soldiers because they are fighting in the same cause.
 Now, that means that we have to raise a great deal of money and we are attempting to raise a certain percent age by taxation and the remaining DOT
 ton by bond issues. What is bond is
 Sue in the United States? Why, it only means that you lend your money to your government. You don't give it to your government, you lend it to your
 government. You lend it upon the saf- lest security upon earth. Uncle Sam has never yet defaulted an obligation,
 never failed to pay any debt at matur- liy any to pay the interest in the
 meantime at the stipulated dates.
 The Safest Security
 The credit and honor of the Ameri-
 can people has always been irreproach-
 able. When you lend dollar to Uncle Sam it is as good as a dollar in your pocket. When the credit of the Amer
 i an nation is not good, then your dol lllrs are no ~ood, because everything
 depends on the credit and honor of
 ncle Sam, who, after all, is only the American people. He is your compos-
 i picture, the real living thing, the
 combined and unified spirit and life~of
 America itself. He offers to take your
 money, ladies and gentlemen and de-
 vote it to those noble purposes and it
 ii the opportunity of every citizen to ] nd to the limit of his means, not to
 tle least of his means; that is not do-
 ilg your part.
 Ladies and gentlemen do you reflect |; what our boys do when they go out
 
 , lat when you reach out and take him
 under this Selective Draft Law, those
 who do not volunteer, when you take
 our boys and put a uniform on him,
 oo you know what he has to do? He goes to a camp and there goes through
 long months of severe and arduous aiming and discipline. He is equipped t. become a soldier and then after he,
 has learned the art of war to the ex- : tent he can learn it here at our can- . comments, he is put on a ship and sent , to France where he is given additional | training and then he is put into the
 army to fight for his country.
 In No Mans Land
 f He IS sent out upon sentinel duty at I n ght facing No-Man's Land where eV- T C breath is filled with danger; he is f E anding in those wet and cold trenches v with no one near him, his gun in his 7 hand, his eyes peering into the dark ness of the night and all his senses Il alert to detect the first approach of
 an enemy in order that he may resist al attack. Then a battle comes and perhaps he dies, and is buried in an un- known grave. Oh, look at the sacrifice U he makes for us to protect our lives = our liberty and our property at home; r one million six hundred thousand of
 tiSAiA diACeuy anu uO1 Know now V many more Of them will have to be . taken, trained in the same way and " sent to Europe. Wouldn't we be = ashamed of ourselves as a great, noble = fee and generous people if we omitted
 on our part to do anything even though
 Il meant the sacrifice of everything at s home to keep those gallant boys from # winning this fight Would we hesitate e to do that? No. But the government # Is not asking you to do that, but to lend n your money so that that soldier may be
 s5 able as possible to protect himself
 when he goes to fight, and that he may Q Istrike such effectual blows that he . may save his life and return to America f a gain when peace is declared. That is n what We have to do with this money if Now. if you only lend as little as yor if can furnish, you don't help very much ti-you help some, of course, but it is h tle duty of everyone to help all they f can, to go the limit of sacrifice here a1
 home to help our gallant sons. We have h al got to do not only something. bu n We nave to go the limit or our means = Lend to the Limit
 q Don't be 25 cent patriot when vol
 can be $5,000 patriot The 25 cen n p1trlot, let me say, ladies and gentle 10 n.en, if that is all he can invest in tn, e Obligations of his government is just a ,t E eat patriot as the $5,00O.0O or tn, d o,OOO00 patriot if he in turn has in ,e lN ted all he is able to lend to his gov ment. The question is not tn, .o 6 lount you can lend to the govern n Il ent the whole question is for you t, ,s g the limit of your means to lend t, 70 tv1ur government to help our soldier 'ln this great war for us.
 ,s NOW dies and gentlemen, after yo, in uy yC bonds, don't sell them Whel II you do that, you don't help your gov r- nment, you only depreciate the valu oe O. government bond and iniure in redlt Of our government
 ,o Americas Answer
 " Our answer to the Kaiser after on
 year of war is defiance, and unswerv
 Ing determination to fight this wa e' to finish until the last vestige ( ! military despotism is driven from tb le earth, so that the free peoples of th ' world shall never be endangere g. again.
 v How can we fight this war success T fully? That is the question of th HI hour. We can fight it successful, jj and we shall fight it successful III and victoriously. because all that III necessary is to make the America III people understand the real issues ir III volved, the seriousness of the prer III arations that have to be made, tf Hi necessity for the sacrifices that mus HI be endured if liberty is to surviy H and the national safety is to be mao HI secure.
 HI Our problem is to mobilize Amer HI ca's might, to organize it irresis III ibly upon the battlefront We ha, HI been engaged in the war for a yea III and I want to assure you that wor HI derful progress has been made l III this great, unorganized democracy HI making itself an organized and pt III tential military nnWer By natnr