Show a 1 the united states is financing itself in this by loans ind ta taxis it obtains furda from the people some by taxation and some by the sile of bonds and then it coes into the market marlet and buis from the people what it needs the people supply the government with money aud the government with this monea buys from te tle people what hat it needs for the war there are three sources from bich the united states can draw the sinews of war first is the fixed prop erty of the n nation this represents our forms farms factories mines railways ano ana all other i including ac ne cumulated saving savings from the corpus or body of none of jbf thise se except the accumulated savings will the government abts n war fund and cen from the accumulated savings it will dr draw aw a relatively small portion these savings are invested in n industries and business which are necessary to the welfare and prosperity and it is only that portion of these savings which are seeking investment that the government will receive in exchange for bonds the second and great source from which tle govern government men I 1 h i to derive its war fund ia Is the wealth produced dir dar d ir ing the war part of this it will ob tain by taxation and part in exchange for bonds the candal production of the united states from its bams mines factories and other sources amounts to fifty billion dollars a year and out wit of this fifty billion dollars will cone come the funds part from taxes and part pari from taj t n sale of bonds with which the unit d states will finance itself during this war by taxation this generation will pay its porton portion of the coit cost of the warl ar by the sale of bonds the next generation is called upon to pay ita its poi pol tion and this list portion will be bild from the wealth production after the war by this method the capital of the country its sour sources of income and wealth are unimpaired it ia 13 only the yearly int increment rement of this moper ty that is called apoi to bear berr a portion of the cost of the war ar thus despite the waste of wr and the destruction st tiou of property involved the country may emerge from the conflict stronger financially more effice ent and oven even wealthier than bafo e what the government receives it receives ceides from the people without impairing the sources of wealth of the country and passes it back to the people in exchange for the productions of the country it is in a way only a shifting of credits ane government collects the current taxes and by means of bonds anticipates taxes of the years to come and all the money thus acquired passes back into the hands bands of the taxpayers tax payers this is why governments which follow sound econ economic ornic methods not only are not impoverished by wars but emerge the stronger as engi engl ind did after the napoleonic wars and the unitta states did after our great civil war will wonders never cease no I 1 was on time four days in succession haq week bui but the other trains had as bird a time aa ab ever |