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Show OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH TWO billion dollars is" a tremendous sum of, money. Yet the American people have loaned their Government that much and have barely I touched their resources. The money was raised! so easilv it only seemed to show the tremendous financial strength of the country. It is not one-tenth of our bank deposits. It is less than one-eighth of our bank loans for one year. It was less than one-half of our national savine-s for 19K! and onlv live per cent of our national na-tional income for that year according to estimates, timates. Not only is this first Liberty Loan Bond issue of two billion dollars much larger than the initial. loans of any of the other nations engaged in the! war but it was raised in much less time with much less effort and was subscribed to by a vastly irreat-er irreat-er number of individuals: this too when danger was far from us and the nation in a calm frame of mind. The coming second issi f Liberty Loan Bonds, with the great rum of the people of the country much better educated ai to Government bond issues and Government finances in general. it is reasonable to suppose, will be disposed of with even greater success than the initial issue. The over-subscription to the initial issue of over a billion dollars augurs well for the success of the next loan. There are several million more investors in Government bonds in America than there were a month ago. Then there were some three hundred thousand holders of United States bonds; now there are over four million. And the thrill of the thought of our soldiers in France will rally the people to the nation's call s . |