Show PRECIOUS FREEDOM AND COST OF WAR american america n people must lend part or pay all to finance great conflict BUYING OF LIBERTY BONDS liberal loans loan s to government Is I 1 ad avancing financial assistance to air Ch children Ildrem obviating total cot cost by taxation by EUGENE P LYLE JR of the vigilante vigilantes l ned coaled hah being tt it pro clous tiling thing being the niti it precious thing it conns highest no su people li 11 worth morth of at freedom that ie is not willing and eager to pa starly for 1 V in 10 fact OU will mill find no pr iv F P e ing fre freedom edoin that haf ha not paid dearly for it and you will find no people con to 0 o possess freedom that does not stand eiery ready to pay starly cier and over to retain it if tills this mere not true belgium Hel glum france italy and angland with fill her oversea would now be a as ll uila Is 1 today it thia this were mere not tnie true Anic andrica rIca would mould still bo be neutral allting her tier turn to pasa pas under tho the boke oke illoyd and anti treasure anguish and vac dilice these tire the coin me e bring to market tho the coll coin we me roust must pay yet the tile coin may be and Is expressed in dollars and cent cents bot inot as R sym bol of ho the real reni price we me pa but b be cause this real price would bo be van ran tonii squandered quan dered or paid in more ghastly measure than need le be if tho tile cold colt calin practical of dol lar tar and 1 I co cants ants flunt icing m were ere not at tho the heart of the heroic transaction annly would mould tho the so soldier laller 11 hie hill blood it bo were ere not trained and equipped to make his ills blows moms count to the tile utmost and tile cost cot of ha train ing ond la is an tin id lit in ill that may be und and Is in an ail lanct num ler her of dollars added ridded to nn an nuin number of vens ilia ills country must upend spend el this amount to ceable him tm t tier consequently wo we of 0 america are now confronted with mith the tile biggest mar bill in history one ear of at thie this war or la is costing us as much nj AA nil all the ware mars 0 o liae hate had before added to all 1110 other expenses of our federal hovehn overn mont since we me first won man our freedom lending to our children ungrudgingly besl yes I 1 of that wo to are pro proudly adly conscious that there Is no the one and only question Is tile practical qui aaion of finance Ina how shall the money bo be found we ourselves want supply it it cannot be borrom lor rowed ed elsewhere iut but ham the bill ie Is too tig big to pay cash on it lie e nail nall as we me go anil aud furthermore to pay all an we me go be just neither to ourselves nor to our poe pas it would mould not be just to our ourselves seles hes because wo me alone will not be tho tile beneficiaries fi fici aries the generations to come como will ably benefit in the liberties preserved to them and it Is proper that they should be left to assume r fair proportion of the debt they are buding freedom today as fluch ai al we me hut but we re shall have 0 0 lend thim the ironey woney now nou to heir their in lending leading to our in lit hulbig I 1 alberty bonds we lend to our children and gratefully our children will mill pay it off any other arrangement would not be just lo 10 0 o them for the reason that should we me strap oura tives bare to pay all non we me would bo be crippled in preparing our children for the ordinary duties of 0 citizenship better far lint wo retain enough to so equip them fo for success in life that they may without undue hardE hardship hIp take oer oser thila quota quote of thi wara ars jil better fer us ux and better for heinl I 1 bound rion hen then as well ns as equity points the way tie the wars burden should b bo e divided let us pay in cash as heavily as tin we wisely may that Is 18 tAX taxation Atlon hut but the rest reat let us ux aate leae to the future lending them the money now that Is buying liberty bonds freedom Fie nee edom doms oret grett price the present moment ts lit a good time to contemplate ant what will hippen inevitably evit ably happen if we me do not lend to posterity to help pay huge hug 0 price nothing Is in clearer than the tb alternative ter native if a da do not lend our gor rement what it asks of us in anani then we roust must consent that the tola total cost cast be taken from us outright by taxation even by a prorated before even such an alternative even the bennan eman or pro german lavi laving as prop emr interests inter its in this country should choose to subscribe for liberty bond in our own i apart from the issuer issues vital to the integrity of or or manhood we can con do no lee lem no less than lend to the file baxt cent wo a may po pat bibly rove and his this not ace merely but each rind every time that bat uncle sam steps from his ills counting house to till us that he roust must hai ha more money uncle sam la Is telling 1 us tills now lip ile awaits our reniah but 1 he Is to not the only ont who waits herc vcr men are free or suffer to be free thero 1 they await our response as the nowr to 0 o their hoad and anti blier Is yet in an other who walta waits the enemy in viti stever degree our answer anmer falls cf of a in exactly that degree will be he take henrt to prolong liang the hideous langer |