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Show SHALL WE SEE IT 1 THROUGH OR QUIT? The Government Is finding It nee- j mry to . call upon us three times within a year to provide by subscriptions subscrip-tions to Liberty Leans, sums of money : hitherto considered of fabulous pro- portions. Tbeas fart should Inv prees upon us as no mere words coiild do. the intense seriousness, the stern nscMsitlea, of the sttusUea. ) I Continued aotaaJataaeo with tb mors sertoua aspects ef life Is spt tsj breed indifference, sod te distort ew ental risloa. As the soldier skadi den with horror st his Bret sight, of earaafe, hut later become hard-1 seed, se are wo apt to become em; s-laeeat under condition which sail aosuaUy for Increasingly strenuous Effort. - i ' The Liberty Loaa with Its original, aceosooaal meats of novelty and sole; appealed to oar national love of a now sensation.. In the Third Cam-palsp Cam-palsp snuoh of the novelty will be laekiog. but the serious parpoeo alad tae oaatpaign will have grown Oar move? was needed whoa both the FUat ,and Svfd LIHerty Lean wore floated, hut It wlU b oioro thaa ever needed when the Third I-oeo, In called for.' Our army' hi grow.; our national pay-roll ha grown, the .mmAm t Mir klv. Ik. needs of our allies have grown, the j necessity of forever banishing the un-1 speakabto menace of Prusslanlsni has grown. No longer ran we hope that the entrance of this country Into the struggle will Induce an early peace, More arrogant, more desperate than Wen the German Government puts forward its Impossible claims upon the rights and life of humanity. Our Government in Its growing need Is calling upon u to give up our luxuries. Is conscripting the lives o( our sons, is controlling trade, labor, and prices, with an ever Increasing earnestness and firmness of pur-l0he. pur-l0he. . The test of our personal strength of character and determination Is at liand. Your Government pleads with you very earnestly to preach and practice both before and during the next Liberty Ioan Campaign a steadfastness stead-fastness of purpose, an unselfish patriotism, pa-triotism, whlnh shall reflect the spirit 'of a mah "who having set his hand to the execution of a necessary task would rather lo.e that hand than draw It back. This Is the spirit of our President, of our allies It Is surely our own. |