The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-04-25
WAR BONDS HAVE
ALWAYS CONE Up
QUICKLY IN PRICE
u,sroRY OF SECURITIES SHOW
How VALUES HAVE CLIMBED
SOON AFTER HosTILITiEs
WHEN U. s. as WENT TO l4o
You Will Have Your Last Chance 10
Load Up on Worlds Best
Investment

Do you recaIl when the per cDt
United States Government Bonds
reached 14o!
You don't have TO be 50 very old to
recall that And that figure OF 40
meant that the man who bought II at
800 per hundred dollars Of face value
would be able to sell IL for $40. And
he had been drawing 4 per cent in
terest on If annually all the time he
had he5d r.
Right now bankers and investment
brokers are predicting that the pres
ent GoyernDeut security issues the
Liberty Bonds. win repeat the history
OF the old Government Fours.
History VIII repeat itself they say.
The records OF every great war show
that the prices OF bonds that were
away down In the days OF the war
and for time after the actual fight
ing had ceased. always increased as
soon as peace wss firmly restored.
Abort hundred years ago the Ma
poleonlc Wars were ending. England
had gone through a desperate strug-
gle with the French imperialist Dur
ing those struggles the prices OF Eng
lish Consols. per cent bonds. ranged
from the high mark 67i1 TO 54lz. the
low mark That was in the year 1914.
In 1924. ten years later. the quotations
ranged from HH. the low. to 967s.
the high for the year
In this same period the French
bonds were undergoing about the
same fluctuations The French 5 per
cent "rentes" rose from so. the high
in 1914. TO 104S in 1924 They had
fallen as low as 45 IN tho despairing
days OF 1914
Our Civil war Bonds.
During the ry1 N-.T IA America
1851 70 1865. tho .c- r~-t issued
many bonds Drrinr these f'r- yeer-
he bonds sold az 'rv 37
iow figure ~ So vae r.l~h g 81 is
Tler the Urion sgo-nei - ha hrell.-
nr r. forever rrt ihef year tae
highest f~r-c r~s 957
From i- o. trrcn p The w1r re
'0ad vlir-s s'ea1ry rose Trey t0i
prlc'caliy s.caar gro o1 fhrr -
ne VIZ until a. ~ 1873 gt,-a
'hcy stood g, i1. vi N the low
f- r.t ys- r. g.
In fsr' tha fmc-rca1 C1vernm -nt
srei Tie i-i9v e o. bonds sni IN
fan years these rose from 1881 to
1866.
The man Who ho'Is n V c.ory Mote
fskortterm hondl or any one or the
Liberty Bonds will have something
that every investor VIII want and be
willing 20 pay a price for But the
-iaa man viii not want 10 sell il lie
VIII want 10 hold ermly TO IL in order
20 have the steady. high rate OF IN
'eresi and that absolute safety CT his
Investments.
Last Chance 70 Load Up.
lhe man who loads NJ with Vic
tory Bond is wise. in the best Gnar-
al sense ~ the word. IL is the la..
rhance 20 load up the last oppcr
.laiy 10 buy high-interest war loan
lond
lhere are great many evidences
en now that the nation Is begin
Hs rs financial recovery Abnormal
ar conditions are vanishing dav ~
has been noted from m1ufh
month that there is an increase -
balances a. financial centers.
uency toward lower rates OF
a iessening OF the amol-t ~.
afe held by Federal Reserve ard
Aelnber banks. an inflow OF Folt coin
90 gold certificates into ne la~'-s
.'lu'cating greater conndenra % tNe
eai situation and q dec'in. p.
amount OF Federal Rescva 10.
'4'anding All these are fayo.e,.e
SIS whose significance should not
oe overlooked.