Show 1 S Your Fifty Dollars I You pick up the paper and see that Mr So and So the well known Chicago millionaire has subscribed for worth of se second ond Liberty loan bonds And the next day you see a New abig big New NewYork York business firm has subscribed for 1 worth Then you ou lay your paper down and say 1 What is the use of my subscribing The government does not need my little tittle 50 Your viewpoint is all wrong You totally totany misunderstand the theof Abject of of the present campaign to enlist popular support support- for the loans loan loany y 4 l' l Th The chances are are by by dint of a a ein in the great money marts Uncle Sam could raise from the big corporations and and nd the wealthy captains of industry But such a a loan floated in Such a way would not be a popular loan It would not represent t 1 to the world what the plain American men and women thought of their government The scheme In all nil these loans is to o get as many of the plain people interested as possible The p plan a is to show to the world this is not a rich mans man's war but a war of all the people of the United States upon ruthless and brutal military ry autocracy of Germany t r v Not ot all of us can fight in inthe the actual battles but most of us can 5 5 subscribe to the loans It is up to each of us to buy what he can can buy a bond 50 take it If you can buy S worth take it Each must give what he lie is able in order to testify to the faith that is in him It t Is easy to shout for your country to waive the flag and cheer h er when The St Star Spangled Bann Banner r is played B But t this war cannot be fought with cheers and songs songs' and and flags It has to to be f fought by men fully equipped for war For this huge quantities of money are necess necessary ry Your 50 is 50 is necessary Every ones one's 50 is necessary If everyone of us will take this to heart and act upon it the second great loan will be a poor mans man's loan as well as a rich mans man's I It will be greatly oversubscribed The precious bonds bonds' will be held in millions of homes where homes where they should be And speaking king of a a 3 rich mans mails war the war the more 50 and bonds that are sold to the men and women who have to pinch and save to raise the money the less there will be to go to the rich men who find in these bonds a splendid investment and a chance 5 T to dod dodge e e. e excess cess taxes I |