The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-04-12
LET'S CARRY ON
The Last War Loan Drive, Soon
to Be Launched, Will Be the
Test of Patriotism


ing, and our khaki-clad boys are
sailing towards an overseas port.
But the real test of patriotism. and
of Americanism comes in the cold.
gray hours of the readjustment per-
iod. AS it was after the Civil War.
so is it to-day, there are many who
are c%onsigning u Government to
the bowwows, and who air griev-
ances real and fancied that will later
on be entirely forgotten as is a slight
burn that is painful at the start but
soon disappears and leaves no al
Many there are who condemn when
only one side of the issue is present
ed to them. Is it fair?
You who are condemning the Ad-
ministration! Have you spent as
much time and effort in gathering
proof that it has done wrong. as the
administration spent ia preparation
for the different steps that have been
taken.
You who have been condemning
officials and department managers /!
Have you eve stopped to think that
this is a government by the people
and that the majority rules? That
you are a part of that majority ?
Did not the American people. by a
majority, voteth authority into the
hands of those in power? Haven't
you courage. if you feel you have
made a mistake, to stand by and do
the best possible to right it?
Let US grant for the sake of argu-
ment, that some few who have been
conducting the affairs of the United
States during the period of the great
est war in the history of the world.
have done wrong-grant also that a
small proportion of them have been
dishonest-is that any reason why any
good, loyal American citizen should
now sit down. fold his hands and say,
I'm through 2" Are you but affair
weather American?
The Fifth and last Government
loan for the war is to be launched
and the question is. are you going to
prove yourself a thoroughbred
American or a Gutter? Will you
finish the job or will you WEIGH at
the most critical period?
The Government is not asking for
money to loan to foreign govern
ments, nor for supplying an ally or
any other power with necessities or
other things. 1t is but asking you
to pay the bills that you as a part of
the American Government have al
ready incurred. The monsy to be
raised has already been spent. and it
was on account of such expenditure
that Germany was frightened into
quitting. They were amazed and
terrified at the wonderful things that
had been invented and constructed
by American genius. and which had
been already placed upon foreign
soil by the United States. ready for
use. Through their spies they knew
better than any one -outside of u
war department itself-what they
had to meet if they kept on with the
fight and they became discouraged;
they looked into The faces of deter
mined American fighters and said
cit is no use to go on"
1t was in the production of these
new war necessities that part of the
next loan has already been spent.
1t was necessary for great military
hospitals to be established and main
tanned, and at those hospitals, the
Government endeavors to nurse the
sick and wounded back to health be-
fore they return them to their homes.
There too the Government recon-
structs and rebuilds the crippled and
the manned as only the surgical
science of to-day permits. For such
as this has the money now called for
been spent.
Will you help pay those bills by
LOANING your Government, at inter-
est, the money needed?
You, who we're permitted to have
rotnrnod 70 Won u0I1r SON father.