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Show outdone by vthese patriotic men and women who dwell in the Antipodes. Let us put our third war loan through with the same spirit of self-sacrifice, and not be content with merely subscribing the minimum amount of $3,000,000,000. Let us make it $5,000,000,000, and show the world what we can do. Only three days of the campaign remain and the government gov-ernment needs all the money it can seeure to maintain our fleet and our army in the field. Unless the maximum amount of bonds is sold the rate of taxation will go higher. There is no alternative. It is up to the taxpayers of the United States to show by their actions which course they prefer. BONDS OR TAXES. New Zealand has opened subscriptions subscrip-tions for the third war loan the island government has placed before the public. pub-lic. The amount is something like $16,-000,000, $16,-000,000, and it w'ill be subscribed locally. lo-cally. The New Zealanders have given a fine exhibition of patriotism during the war, and are entitled to the highest praise. Many of their sons and fathers went down to death along with the Australians at Gallipoli, but they have not faltered and their men are now facing the Huns iu northern Prance. Two war loans have been raised and-expended and-expended for the cause of humanity, and the third loau is on the way. Let not the people of the United States be |