| Show HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS next to the imperative duty of america earlc their is loan citizens to support the liberty liot it is duty to hold their liberty bonds lib full service to the country to purchase the erty bonds and then throw them upon real the market thus putting upon others the unless burden of financing the war great is very necessity for disposing of them hold bond should phoui every owner of a liberty fast to it one that means eans w holding onto ones bonds na to big has not only lent so much money spend is not no go government but also that he and an ing that noney for goods labor in the pro por tation n aeu by the li I 1 nation the elution of the war and ata 2 thus io le avi ay the e 1 10 resources of the country mo disposal of the government as well as giving it financial backing this is a double service secretary baker says that the wide distribution trib ution of the liberty bonds amongst the mass of the american people makes our liberty loans the soundest national financing in history it is a good thing for every liberty bond holder to be a creditor of his or her government and it is a good thing for the nation for its obligations to be widely scattered amongst its citizens and not congested into the hands of the rich it is a most hopeful thing for the unnoted states that the best investment in the world the liberty bonds are very widely distributed amongst millions of its citizens judging the future by the past our government bonds issued during this war are going to rise greatly in value with peace in 1888 4 per cent united states bonds sold in the open market as high as and in 1901 brought over that is and some cents for a bond that the liberty bonds are going to rise well above par in value is something that the most conservative serva tive will admit is well within the bounds of possibility the shrewd and unscrupulous the birds of prey in finance realize the worth of liberty bonds and are going to use every effort to secure them from the hands of those owners of them who are uniformed or who are ignorant of stock and investment val ues aes the favorite method will probably be offering stock of wildcat companies or other speculative ventures speculative is really leally too conservative a word to apply to some of these stocks since to say that they have a speculative value is flattering in the extreme they have no value at all except in the hands of unscrupulous people who trade them for money or liberty bonds to ignorant investors some of the get rich quick schemers propose not to trade their goldbrick gold brick stock for liberty bonds but to lend their clients money to buy their stock taking liberty bonds as security this is camouflage only a thinly disguised method of Fe securing curing liberty bonds for worthless or ctr near worth less ss stock every holder of a liberty bond before I 1 he disposes di looses of it and especially before he trades it for stocks or other bonds should I 1 insult a bank much money will be thereby Z saved ived to the owners of liberty bonds and I 1 I 1 the e finances of the american people be bette t ter conserved |
