The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-03
AMERICANS NOT
FOR BOLSHEVISM
With More Than 10000, 900 Holders of
u. S. Securities, and the Campaign
of Thrift in Full Swing, Red Ban
ner Can Gain No Place Here.

For four years, beginning back in
1914, it was war. We were fighting
Prussianism year ago with our
backs to the wall We were buying
Liberty Bonds and building ships,
turning civilians into soldiers and
making desperate haste.
Now it is the wreckage of war that
must be cleaned up. Before we can
start to get it out of the way, before
the peace conference held it's first
session at Versailles, we were threat
ened with another menace. One that
is redder than Prussianism, that hates
all order, that leaves nothing but
blackness and utter despair of any
sort of civilization and order behind
it, That is the Red Banner that is
being waved in broken Russia and
whipped Germany.
1t is just one thing after another.
The wavers of the red banner are
shouting "Down with the capitalists
and capital"
The people who bought Liberty
Bonds and are Buying War Savings
Stamps are capitalists. Don't forget
that The woman who has Fifty
Dollar Bond ar Baby Bond is CAPT
talist. The farmer who drew his
savings for years out of the bank and
invested them with Uncle Sam is =
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If you have bank account you
are a capitalist. If you have been
thrifty and save saved little capital,
honestly and worked, you are CAPT
talist.
If you own your own farm or ycrr
own home, or bit of land anywhere
you are capitalist. In other words,
if you have lived decently, thriftily,
you are one of the class that the Boil
shevist would destroy.
If you have taken out life insur-
ance policy, you are capitalist. If
you have thought enough of your fam
lily to want to protect them-you be-
long to that class.
There are millions of us. Some
thing like 100000 of us became
capitalists thru buying United States
securities during the war. We are do
ing the best we can. We know that
no government is perfect and that no
government ever will be. But We are
going ahead and we are going to buy
a few more Thrift Stamps, War Saw
ings Stamps and baby bonds, because
we want to see the best government
In the world strengthened and made
all the better and safer
If we are going to keep the three
colors in the American flag we must
support it just as generously and as
loyalty and as devotedly now as we
did when the Allies were hacking at
the Hindenburg line. We must keep
our courage and our faith and back it
now, just as we did last July when the
Hun was smashing bloodily thru
toward Paris and all the Allied World
was desperate. We did not falter then
and we would be fools to falter now.
We don't want the white in the flag
to vanish and the blue to become only
a memory We don't want to exalt the
red in the American flag to the down
fall of democracy and the coming of
the reddest day in civilization.
This is good country. There is
no better in the world. 1t will take
brains and faith and more money to
keep it good country when the rcd
tidal wave that is rolling over Europe
begins to rise in American cities. It
will take courage when the howls Of
the red pack begin to be heard in
American streets.
We want to be able to say to the
gentry who do not like our flag, "Stay
where you are!" We want to be able
morally, financially and physically to
make the plain announcement to the
destroyers of order, property and life
that if American ideals and standards
do not fit them that they may well
get hence into the lands where he flags
are blood red and the hands that wave
them are redder than the flags.
A nation that is not being wholly
supported by it's people cannot take a
firm stand in dealing with anarchy.
We are not worshippers of capital in
this country, but we understand its
uses as well as it's limitations, and we
also understand that all men who have
saved and have put by are capitalists.
We decline to be stampeded by the
bowls Of the makers of disorder. Our
Government and our form of civiliza-
ton was good enough to fight for and
to die for, and we propose to hold to
it, to back it financially, morally and
physically.