The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-28

War came away from Appomatox
with their blanket rolls, their old blue
army overcoats, and their muskets.
and struck westward in search of Il
homestead that suited them.
They were the men who built the
railways, who manned the cattle
ranches and who became the cow kings
and the wheat barons of the early
days in the Middle West and on the
great plains. They gave to this coun
try one of the most splendid periods
of development it has ever known in
all its history. There were no Liberty
Loans in those days to aid in financing
these men and setting them up or
their farms, but the land was there
for their taking if they could snow
that they Were entitled to it.
Different from Civil War
OF course the situation has changed
somewhat. 1t will be necessary, if
this scheme is carried out, to make ar
engagements to finance these farmers
with some sort Of loans, to give then
a chance to equip themselves with
tools and horses, with homes and pow
er to handle farm.
As to tic cost of this? AS 70 how
much money this country should raise
by taxation or by Liberty Bond is
sues to take core of the program,
that has been answered in the follow
ing sentence: GAS much as we wish to
spend; as much as we need to spend"
Secretary of the Interior Lane says
that the plan will cost the country
less than many a strike has cost It.
He asserts that the whole expenditure
need not equal the amount we arc
still paying yearly to pensioners of
wars that were fought fifty and TWEEN
ty years ago. That a two-ycar pro-
gram that will put thousands of men
on farms where they can be independ-
ent and where they will be helping to
develop the country, will cost US less
than the expense of a single week OF
the Great War
He asks that the people of the coun-
try who gave, gave mind you, $780,
100000 for charity, for war work,
for war activities. in a single week.
support the undertaking to buy bonds
for the same amount of money to put
this plan into effect. Of course
Liberty Loan is not gift. It is .
loan on interest and very good interest
at that,
In Other Countries
England has already started her
program and is preparing to spend
hundreds of millions of pounds ster
ling on schemes to open the lands and
to better housing conditions, while
paying off the tremendous war debt
Canada has less than 100000 peo-
pie all told and yet Canada is offer
ing to every man, 100 acres of land
and $1,000 to make improvements on
it. OF course Canada has great
deal of land but Canada has not q
great deal of money. England viii
finance her schemes with loans like
her famous "Victory Loans" of the
war, like our own Liberty Loans"
that have been so uniformly success
| bonds, continuation of the waf
| bonds that the Canadians have so
courageously subscribed from .he be
ginning. Experience points out that
our own land and loan problem is like
ly to be financed in the same way,
drawing upon the present loan for
some support and on such loans as
may be made in the near future
months for further backing.
| And this is one of the big reasons
for the present Liberty Loan move
mont. There are others, of course,
many others. Shipping to be built,
rehabilitation to be carried out, do
nestle problems to solve and roads
to build. 1t is a part Of the great
scheme for keeping the country NOV
ing ahead and to make it prosperous.