Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-05-15
OUGHT To Be EASY
To RAISE A LOAN
TWICE As LARGE
SOME POSSIBILITIES TO THINK OF
WHEN VICTORY SALESMAN
APPROACHES YOU.
DO A LITTLE
Suppose the Kaiser Were Debating
Peace at Paris at This
Time.

hNh iG AStS Aooh
looks you up during the campaign you
might think of the following possible
ties, Of these things that might have
happened in the war.
Suppose for just a minute that the
Prussian guard had run over the
American marines at Chateau-Thierry
and Belleau Wood. That they had
reached Paris and dictated the terms
OF peace.
Suppose it were Won Helferich and
Won Bernstorff and Emperors Wilhelm,
Charles and Ferdinand who were in
Paris today debating the terms around
the peace table.
If So, would north France be free
Of the Hun? Would King Albert be
back in Brussels helping his country
to get started again?
Would Rumania be proudly standing
Of the Bolsheviki, recognizing itself
In its ruins and making a place for it.
Self in the t "A east?
If the Hun had won would broken
Serbia be gathering her people from
Greece, from Corfu, from Italian
islands and French territories and
coming back into devastation that is
worse than Belgium at its worst?
Would Italy be bringing back to
Venice the art treasures that have
long been the marvels of the world?
Would France be jubilating over the
return Of Alsace Lorraine? Would
England's battle fleet be floating over
harbors filed with German subma.
rincs?
If the Hun had won there would be
NO allied troops on the Rhine. But
there would be hundreds of thousands
OF allied prisoners shaving under Hun
taSkmaStcrS.
Would Russia be free to carry out
whatever there is in the myriad minds
OF that maddened country? Would
America be talking after.the-war prob
lens and planning to go Out after for
eign trade and insure American pros
perity for q generation?
Wouldn't it be more likely that we
would be preparing to raise SAC, 0O0,-
600 900 indemnity, as the kaiser told
us We woG!d after the war? Wouldn't
We be preparing as feverishly as We
could To fight another and a more ter
rible and probably a losing war just
as soon as We possibly could?
Would the whole world be watching
the peace table with the hopeful In
terest and the sense of freedom it
now has? Would there be any rejoicing
anywhere in all the world today except
In Hun Land?
Do you think the kaiser on the day
Of victory would have forgotten his
plans and dreams of a lifetime for
world domination? Not if that person
had retained his mind, he would not
have forgotten.
Not Time to Forget.
We haven't come to a time yet when
We can afford to forget that the kaiser
had planned a snug little earth all his
own, which should be his to do as he
pleased with. He hoped to live many
years and watch the once free peoples
Of the world carrying their contribu.
tons and taxes, their ransom money
and their indemnities to his doors.
1t cost the allies something to escape
all this. 1t cost untold lives, a world
of suffering, the shadow of sorrow
for years and about $lvO, 900, 900, 900 in
money to escape the fate that Kaiser
Wilhelm had planned for them.
But it was worth all it cost to es-
cape the ne of the cOnqueror. or
course, We haven't finished paying yet
nor will we for many a long year
Uncle Sam will have to add a few bill.
lions more to his part Of the cost, and
that is the reason for the Victory Lib.
erty Loan.
If you want to know who is re-
sponsible for this Fifth Loan, simply
turn your thoughts to the kaiser. He
started 1t all over four years ago and
the world has long since adjudged him
d the criminal.
Remember just the same that the
independence of America and your own
personal freedom are mighty cheap at
the price you are paying even if you
should put every dollar you have on
earth into the Victory Liberty Loan.
We can be thankful that here In
America we have escaped with a slight
blood toll. Over in Europe they have
bought loan on loan, n after 40
other. till the count was well nigh lost
and Trey number their dead by hun.
dreds and thousands where we number
ours by tens.
Digging in and raising a Liberty
Loan twice as big as the Victory Loan
ought to be a high privilege and a
thing Of $ and quickness compared
with what the battered allies who
stood by us have undergone.
Labor's hosts will rally to the sup.
port Of the Victory Liberty Loan in
the usual solid array. The recOnstruc-
ton period is quite as important as the