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Show $ .. www M PAYING FOR THE GOODS Hf Failure to take the Victory Loan would 1 seem to indicate that the people are dis- WB satisfied with" the goods they ordered. Ab- fe sorption 6i the issue would be proof that H r "Victory and Peace are desirable. M i What citizen of the United States is H uncontent with Victory and Peace? In H prosecution of a war. The war was car- M - plain words we have a contract for the K I a-ied on with all vigor and the aims Bt achieved. We were vellr aware that to (l prosecutes war.' great' expenditure of Hj Jnoney was required. We went on record ' B - sssB r as saying the money would be forthcoming-We did not contract to win a war, but only to wage one. What would have been the feelings of the people if we had lost the war? Would there have been rejoicing at the prospect of a foreign tax collector on our doorstep with a bayonet in his hands to collect for the war we didn't win? Regardless, of victory or defeat, we did order the war and we are bound to pay the score. The fact that victory was achieved only emphasizes the importance of the debt. We have deceived more than we ordered and still there is delay in paying pay-ing the bill. And even if the bill is high it is no loss; for $6,000,000,000 in Victory bonds only means' that every participant in the payment pay-ment is a participant in the storing up of $6,000,000,000 plus interest thereon. What bill was ever paid in a fashion that net-i ted the payer 4'per cent on the amount of the bill and his money back to boot? Is the enthusiasm for Victory lost at the moment it is achieved. Chicago Tri- bune " t -tfs |