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Show FARMERS COULD f PURCHASE ENTIRE I U.S. .VICTORY LOAN fftb- Earnings for 1918 Estimated V at $12,000,000,000 by i Treasury Department. Tho farmers of tho United Status alono could subscribe the entiro 1 amount of $5,000,000,000 to be asked for In tho Victory Loan which Is to be opened by tho government April SSL Figures given out by tho treasury department show that tho earnings ot Amorlcan farmers for 1018 totalled more than $12,000,000,000. Ability ot tho American people to meet tho obligations of Its government Is shown through figures Issued by tho treasury department showing the earn-i earn-i lng power of the nation in 1918 to have 7 v been in excess of $73,000,000,000. It would havo taken Icbb than two days' earnings of the American peoplo to !pay all tho Interest charges on all the Liberty Bonds outstanding during that year. There Is far moro gold back of a United States government bond than that standing behind bonds of any of tho others ot tho allied nations. America's total wealth Is estimated at $250,000,000,000. Tho part ot the world'8 monetary stock held by this country is $3,079,000,000, an Increase I of $1,192,000,000 since the boglnnlng , . of tho war. |