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Show CONSCRIPT INCOMES! Is our congress going to say that it la only the lives of our boys that are owing to their country in this crisis? Is there something yet more precious that must not be laid on the altar? Is the wealth of our money lords too sacred to be touched without gilt-edged gilt-edged notes, bonds and usury? Perish the thought! Will red-blooded red-blooded Americans who are ready to give their lives for their country con-Bent con-Bent to give those lives in defense of : the money bags of the Shylocks? Not unless those bags are opened wide to ; the country's needs. ( Two thousand years ago a poor 1 woman dropped into the contribution v chest her "mite" but it was her all. At the same time the rich and power- c ful gave princely sums, yet the Mas- i ter Teacher declared her gift to be 1 greater than theirs. Many a sorrowing mother will be 11 called upon in the days to come for a her "mite" her brave young son. f1- fatners are asked to surrender the sons upon whom they hoped to lean In the helplessness of age. Are these sacrifices to be made that the miser's board may be safe? Conscript incomes! Conscript wealth wherever found, if necessary, to the prosecution of the war. In God's name, are the plutocrats who have fattened on the public for generations to still be regarded as a "privileged class" when the life of our nation and its people are at stake? j Conscript the incomes! Let the Shylocks lay their wealth where the poor man lays his life. ( |