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Show THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN The government asked a loan of the people of $2,000,000,000 for war purposes. The people responded by promptly offering nearly $3,000,000,-000, $3,000,000,-000, and this tremendous sum was subscribed In all walks of life, from the millionaire down to the laboring man with nothing but his weekly pay from which to draw. Even young working girls and the little Boy Scouts dug down when Uncle Sara asked for help. It is significant that our first loan of the war is also the greatest loan in the history of the world, and fifty per cent over subscribed sub-scribed at that. The kaiser should worry! |