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Show SECURITY FOR THE HOMES. One of the best informed financial authorities in the United States, in a study of the fourth Liberty loan, reaches tho conclusion that, though the loan is moving slowly, It unquestionably unques-tionably will be a success.- To doubt that statement would be to lose faith in our people. He says: Several causes contribute to delay, such as peace talk, Influenza, taxes, holding back by large subscribers, etc. These hindrances, however, will gradually grad-ually disappear; and in the last few days of the campaign the big subscribers, subscrib-ers, bank and great corporations combined, com-bined, may be depended upon to carry the loan over the top. But, dependence depend-ence should not bear too heavily upon these sources. If the banks are overcrowded over-crowded with bonds, a corresponding restriction of commercial credit must bo expected; something which.no intelligent in-telligent business man wants in these active times. As for wealthy Individuals, Individ-uals, they have subscribed with patriotic pa-triotic liberality in spite of the heavy taxes imposed upon this class. It is one of the great purposes of the administration ad-ministration to make this a popular loan in the truest sense; since tho more widely the burden is distributed the more easily will it be carried. The last loan had 17,000,000 subscribers; this loan should have not less than 25,000,000: Such a result can easily bo I obtained if our people will only make real voluntary sacrifices, which hitherto hith-erto have been confined to the comparatively com-paratively few. Some are spending more i than ever in their lives; not a few are spending just as much, while those who are voluntarily practicing economy econ-omy are a. relatively sniall factor in our whole population. Sacrifices have Indeed been liberally made by some classes; yet there are millions of people peo-ple in the United States who, if they would simply economize moderately, or practice a little additional self-denial through stopping unnecessary expenses, ex-penses, to the extent of a small per centage of thoir income, would create a heavy oversubscription to tho loan. To the many new slogans for the bond issue, at least one should bo added; that Is: "Economize; economize; economy will win the war." There Is no doubt but that the loan will bo a success, for the reason that the banks and other great financial Institutions will assuredly stand loyally behind tho government. Nevertheless, for the good of all concerned, the bond issue should not bear so heavily in the last named quarter, but should receive tho widest possible public support. And furthermore, with the great mass of tho people economizing and subscribing, tho reward in the years to come will go to the subscribers. subscrib-ers. When this war is over, hundreds of thousands Americans will have money in the form of bonds who in tho past never had a dollar saved for a rainy day. All our bonds, soon after the war ends, will be at par or above, as the first issue is now, and then the holders suddenly will realize they were persuaded to do moro for thomselvos than they did for our glorious country. . Tho editor of tho Standard numbers among his acquaintance scores of Og-denties Og-denties possessing bonds who had no thought of accumulating a surplus dollar until the appeal to help the government gov-ernment brought homo to them their duty to their country. Today they have from $50 to $1000 In tho best security se-curity on earth a government bpnd. This buying of bonds will prove a great blessing as the years go by. Millions Mil-lions and millions of dollars of reserve, re-serve, weal th will bo Impounded, ready to be placed in useif over an Industrial Indus-trial reversal starts to halt tho business busi-ness of the land, and the reappearance jof this husbanded wealth will make I Impossible any serious depression. J The buying of bonds Is equivalent to Insuring the homes of America not only against the flames of tho incen-I incen-I diaries of a Germany army, but against poverty now or In tho coming century. |
