| OCR Text |
Show Bonds Will Shorten the War. The new Liberty bonds are issued not merely to provide money for carrying car-rying on the war, the success of the Loan must have a very direct tendency ten-dency to shorten the war. It not only enables us and our allies, through our loans to them, to press the battle a-gainst a-gainst Germany with increased vigor and effectiveness, but it will be a demonstration dem-onstration to Germany of our unconquerable uncon-querable determination to fight to the end, to fight to the last man and the last dollar, faithfully keeping the pledge given by the President; and Germany, already shaken, already in dire distress, and beginning to cast about desperately for. some way to lure the Allies into a speedy peace, shows that she is nearing the limit of her strength and knows it. Subscriptions Subscrip-tions to the bond issue of $3,000,000,-000 $3,000,000,-000 in less than a month's time in the United States will bring vividly home to her the hoplessness of further fighting. fight-ing. So a subscription to the Liberty Loan tends to shorten the time of service ser-vice required of our soldiers, it brings nearer the day when, from the battlefields battle-fields of France, from the training camps there or in America, they will be returned to their homes. Not all, only comparatively few, of the hundred hund-red million Americans can serve at the front. For the rest, for those who cannot shoulder a musket or command com-mand a company or brigade or division, divi-sion, who cannot man a gun or care for the wounded, the furnishing of funds to support the husbands, sons, and brothers in the field is a sacred duty. It is a duty to be performed in a spirit of most patriotic and generous rivalry one with another, and to be promptly performed, for the subscription subscrip-tion period of the Loan expires on October 27. The American people all together must by united and unsparing unspar-ing effort assure the success of the second Liberty Loan within the appointed ap-pointed time. New York Times. |
