Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-05-02
FRIDAY. MAY End. 1918.
BUY A VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN
BOND,

ed throughout the United States
for the sale of the last series of
government bonds, known as the
Victory Liberty Loan Bonds, and
thus an opportunity opened to-
each and every one Of us to finish
the job Of winning the war our
boys began.
These bonds should be pur
chased by every man and woman
in the county and even children
who have succeeded in saving
sufficient money to purchase one,
for two reasons, if no more, pa
triotism and investment. Pa
triotism should be the guiding
spirit of every American in buy
ing Victory Bond first and in
vestment next. Every patriotic
American will buy a Victory
Bond not only thereby to demon
onstrate his great love for our
country but as a matter of appre-
citation and gratitude to those
millions of our young men who
gave up all Of their prospects in
life and future careers to go to
France to fight the beastly hun
and even sacrifice their lives that
we might continue to enjoy the
freedom, happiness and sweet
ness Of life that we have enjoyed
for SO many years and are enjoy
ing today. Had the United States
remained out of the war and Ger
many defeated the Allies, this
country would have been the next
victim sought in the path Of the
Kaiser's thirst for power and
might. Again, had our boys who
went overseas not displayed the
grit, courage and bravery that
they have shown, the war might
still be going on, or the blood
thirsty Germans today be the
victor rather than the Allies.
The battles of Belleau Woods,
Argonne Forest and Chateau de
Thierry are not fiction nor the re-
suits of idle imagination. If
every man and woman in this
county will Just call to mind the
great sacrifice made by our
marines and soldiers in these
battles, we have no doubt that
they will buy Victory Bonds to
the lint. OF course we fully
realize that it is hard for those
who did not have q son or other
relative in the war to realize and
appreciate what those bloody
battles in which hundreds upon
hundreds Of our young men were
killed and wounded meant, but
each and every one must place
themselves just for a while at
least in the position of those who
had sons and relatives on these
and other bloody battle fields of
France making the supreme sac
rifice for us here at home.
Every blue blooded American
citizen in this county who has
sense Of gratitude and apprecia-
ton for the noble and great sac
rifce made by our boys in the
recent the greatest war this
world has ever known will never
rest contented until they have
at least one Victory Liberty Loan
Bond.
Again from the standpoint of
investment, there iseyery reason
why every man and woman with
any conception of business and
thrift will buy as many Victory
Liberty Loan Bonds as possible,
for the reason that these bonds
pay the highest rate of interest
that any bond of the government
yet sold since the war began, to-
wit; 3-4 per cent and besides
this loan only extends over a per-
iod of five years. The high rate
of interest and the short time the
loan is to stand are the strongest
inducements that could be offered
our people to buy these bonds.
And again, these bonds practi-
cally cost you only the principal
invested as the banks of the
county viii loan you the money
to buy these bonds at the same
rate of interest you receive on
your bond "A "a per cent. The
best investment that you can get
in this county only pays 6 per
cent, hence, in buying a Victory
Loan Bond one is only investing
his money at | and IA cents less
than the best rate Of interest OBJ
tainable here.
In view Of these facts without
mentioning many other reasons
that should actuate every citizen
Of the county, male and female in