Show I AMERICANS AND AND- AND TRUE DEMOCRACY Dollars Are Needed as Exemplification Exemplification Exemplification cation of S Spirit irit TIME riME TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS Citizens Must Lend T Their to Government to Forever For For- ever Eliminate Effects of Germany Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many many's Influence By GEORGE E E. E BOWEN o of the Vigilantes In the main It cannot be said of America that she is without her AmerIca Americans Amer Amer- Ica leans or that the faith and service of ot the mass is un-American un in spirit Dollars do not always ys go with democracy democracy democracy de de- de- de but when Informed inspired and anti enlisted the they can be mighty useful to It it IL There has been a mistaken idea in certain sections of America that dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars according to the number of them spelled aristocracy They dont That is an imported Idea And Anti that it is perishing in the theland theland theland land of Its origin witness the war and the consternation of the few aristocrats aristocrats aristo aristo- both external and Inbred There have ha been possibly are a afew afew afew few external aristocrats in America who in a moment of excessive vanity measured their social importance by bythe bythe bythe the size of their material fortunes The war erased tha that absurd notion almost with the first blare of the trumpet Millionaire Privates in Ranks There are millionaire privates in the ranks of the American army and navy who have renounced all the prestige o oi of fortune for the of comrade comrade- ship In the crucial test humanity was as first last and andall andal al all the way between Men l are more than money The outer veneer has been quickly shed j The Theman Theman Theman man has emerged What he thought was his pride In days of social and anti financial triumphs triumph he finds was but a cheap and trivial plaything Now his real pride Is Is' Isa a athing athing I thing of purpose power and dignity Before the war Is over dollars that hid hid In iff aristocratic seclusion or vaunted vaunt vaunt- ed themselves In ostentatious power are going voluntarily and humbly to join the forces of democracy After the wa war they are going to tode de develop develop a system of popular tion relieving the old congestion whose fevers broke out out- in of luxury luxury luxury lux- lux ury and extravagance Incompatible with universal contentment The only aristocracy America wants or needs Is of the heart heartland and of or orthe the mind The shoulder er touch of m men n on the march or In the trenches has welded this feeling into a living creed a sav saving say sae ing faith The escutcheon of American manhood manhood man hood may be either a splash of Belgian Bel Bel- Belgian gian glan mud or a splotch of German blood Drawing True Men Men Together In place of the he dollar crest will be bethe bethe bethe the sign of the courage test There was a lot of sound democracy In the old ultimatum ultimatum millions millions for defense defense de but not one cent for tribute Therein is the basic principle of resistance resistance resistance re re- re- re of I That principle principle principle prin prin- ciple is drawing all true men together It Is p putting service above self It Is Is' asking America to take tike the gold gord of vanity and pour It into the cause of of humanity The spirit of democracy is the only vital uncompromising thing in a human human hu hu- u. u man world It laughs at at dollars and dynamite and royal degenerates The America of this spirit Is n at t last to carry It forth to ti n perish ing lag world worM And the despised American dollar shall with the courage generosity and chivalry of American manhood be bethe bethe bethe the Instrument of salvation sal The day of contribution is at hand Where Is your dollar |