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The Commoner
' VOL. 18, NO, 3
Third Liberty Loan
Sccrotary McAdoo authorizes tho
following:
Tho campaign for tho third Lib
orty loan will bo opened on tho Gth
of April, 1018, tho first anniversary
of tho declaration of a state of war
botween tho United States and Ger
many. Tho amount, terms, and conditions
of tho loan havo not yot boon de
cldod because thoso features aro de
pondont upon furthor legislation. I
cxpoct to ask tho congress at an
oarly date to grant tho necessary ad
ditional authority. Of courso, tho
oponing dato of tho campaign is
somowhat dopondont upon tho now
legislation, but It is hoped and be
llovod that tho matter can bo con
sidered and determined in ample
tlmo to begin tho campaign on tho
dato suggested.
Day Consecrated In History.
April 6 will forovor bo a conse
cratod day in Amorlcan history and
it scorns peculiarly appropriate that
tho oponing of tho second year of
our participation in this war for tho
honor and rights of Amorlca and tho
froodom of tho world should bo cel
obratod with a nation-wide drive for
another Llbortv loan.
Tho campaign should bogfti with
grout demonstrations of patriotism
In ovory city, town, and hamlet in
tho country that will truly express
tho spirit of aroused Amorlca. On
Paint Without Oil
IlciunrknMc Discovery That Cutn Down
the Cont of Vnlut Sevcnty-flvc Per Cent
A Free Trlnl Packngc Ih Mailed io
Mvcryone Who "Vrltcn
A. Ii.Ttlce, a promlnont manufacturer
of Adams, N. Y has discovered a proc
obb of making a now kind of paint with
out tho uso of oil. Ho calls it Towdr
palnt. It comoo In tho form of a dry
powdor and all that Is required Is cold
water to mako a paint weathor proof,
,flra proof, sanitary and durable for
outsldo or Inside painting. It is
tho cement prlnclplo applied to paint.
'It adheres to any surfaco, wood, stone or
hrlclc, spreads and IooIcb llko oil paint
and costs about ono-fourth as much.
"Wrlto to Mr. A. L. Rico, Manufacturer.
22M North Stroot, Adams, N. Y and
ho will send you a freo trial paclcago,
also color card and full information
allowing you how you can savo a gooa
' many dollars. Wrlto today.
this date every American should
pledge anew his government tho run
measure of his resources and resolve
to mako every- required sacrifice in
tho same fervent spirit that impels
our gallant sons in tho trenches of
Franco and on the waters of tho At
lantic to shed thoir blood in Amer
ica's sacred cause.
Dato Considered a Fitting Ono.
To carry forward America's essen
tial part in this war for righteous
ness and justice, every man and wo
man in tho country must lend thoir
available means to the government,
and I know of no more fitting time
for such a patriotic response to the
call of duty than tho beginning of
tho second year of the war.
Tho campaign in all probability
will last three or four weeks and an
nouncement of the opening date is
made at this time in accordance with
my promlso to make public all mat
tors connected with the loan as soon
as determined and in order that am
nio tlmo mav bo triven overv com
munity to prepare for the event.
I earnestly hone that narades and
patriotic meetings will be held in all
parts of the country. The treasury
department will endeavor to make
tho observance of the anniversary of
tho declaration of war as memorable
as was tho patriotic observance 'dur
ing the second Liberty loan campaign
of Liberty Day on the 24th of Oc
tober, 1917.
.$1)7,000,000,000 FOR WAR SPENT
BY FIVE NATIONS
A Paris cablegram to the New
York American, dated Feb. 16, says:
Investigations by French economists
havo elicited some remarkable de
tails of war expenditures in the va
rious belligerent countries. The
latest figures show the cost of the
war to France, Great Britain, Italy,
Germany and Austria - Hungary
amounts to something like $97,600,
000,000. Tabulations based on the state
ments issued by the various" govern
ments show that the amounts ex
pended in the larger allied countries
from August, 1914, to January 1,
1918, are approximately as follows:
Nation. Amount.
France $15,040,000,000
Britain 32,800,000,000
Italy 6,000,000,000
. i- i.t. ..nnrnnnrnd nnnntry into
mvoivu uiu u"ii' - -
much greater expenditures, added to
by loans to equally unprepared col5-
Worked out per head of' population
of the United Kingdom, tho War has
cost each inhabitant $713, com
pared with $490 a head in France
and $172 each in Italy, which entered
the war mucn later man. wo umoi
two nations. These are amazing fig
ures when it is recollected that the
nnniilaHnn of each country is formed
chiefly of people who earn no more
than a bare living wage, ahd they
have had to meet vastly increased
living costs besides, although the
purchasing value of their money has
been reduced by half.
While it is fairly easy to estimate
the war costs of the Allies, it is very
difficult to approximate clearly and
definitely those of Germany and Aus-trln-Hnnearv.
Flnan'ce is as imnort-
ant in the great struggle as victories
in the field, and the central empires
have adopted what the Allies admit
to be a legitimate ruse of war in
making their published financial
statements as baffling as possible. Sq
far as it is possible to judge, how
ever," the figures being given with re
serve, the cost of the war to Ger
many and Austria to the first of this
year was:
Germany $26,600,000,000
Austria-Hungary . . 16,800,000,000
en-
communities than they were to
force it.
The record in -Sioux Falls, the
largest city of the state, is one which
would show a duplication in every
city and town in possibly the same
degree according to population.
Tho Sioux Falls record of arrests,
for a series of seven months in 1916
and 1917, the jfirst showing the work
of peace officers under the saloon
license law, and tho latter under
prohibition, speaks for itself. The
record:
Arrests 1916
July . ... 164
August . . 215
September. 172
October . . 142
November. 165
December. 119
January ... 56
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(19X7)
1917
16
2
' 11
"7
8
(1918)
Totals .2923
58
Total $43,400,000,000
These figures share out $398 per
capita in Germany and $330 in Austria-Hungary.
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RHEUMATISM Recipe.
I will gladly send any Rhoumatlsm suf
ferer a Simple Horb Roclpo Absolutely
roo that Complotoly Cured mo of a terrible-
attack of muscular and Inllamma-
y.ui uiiuiunuuom ui lung sianuing after
ovorythlng olso I tried had failed mo I
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lloved their cases hopeless, yet they found
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Total . .; $54,200,000,000
In regard to Russia the published
information is so confusing as to
render it practically impossible to
arrive at any satisfactory total.
In studying the above tables it is
necessary to keep in mind that the
interest on tho loans contracted dur
ing the war is also included, and as
this reaches a very appreciable fig
ure, the staggering character of the
totals is more easily understood.
When one attempts to examine in
detail these various totals, it is
necessary to exnlain the fmmfman v.
riatlons by the leading facts which
nave uictatea them. While France
put all her men into the field at the
beginning of the war with the ex
ception, of course, of the boys who
have been absorbed by the army year
by year as they reached tho nrnna
age, Great Britain has had to create
everything, from the divisions which
navo laicen tnoir places In the "line,"
to tho factories which have supplied
them with ammunition.
Franco was organized and equipped
to provide for an army of several
millions of men. Britain, however
had little more reserve stores than
were necessary to provide adequately
the first seven divisions the "con
tempt! me little army," as the kaiser
called it which took tho field at
once.
Tho result naturally has been to
A LONG MEMORY
At a little dinner the statement
was made that the colored race has
longer memories than white folk.
Mark Twain, who was present, agreed
with the remark, and to prove it told
the following:
"Some years ago, when south, I
met an old colored man who claimed
to have known George Washington.
f asked him if he was in the boat
when Gen. Washington crossed the
Delaware, and he instantly replied,
'Lor, Massa, I steered dat boat.'
" 'Well,' I said, 'do you remember
when George took the hack at the
cherry tree?'
"He looked worried for a minute,
and with a beaming smUo said:
'why, suah, Massa, I dun drove
dat hack myself.' " New York
Times.
RECORD JUSTIFIES PROHIBITION
LAW
A Pierre S. D., special to the Chris
tian Science Monitor, Boston, says:
Governor Norbeck stands today on
the platform that prohibition n nnr-
ried out in South Dakota is a success
in every way, and one of the best
moves ever made in the state.
That the attempt to bring prohibi
tion to South Dakota at tho t.fmn'nf
statehood nearly 30 years ago was a
failure, is admitted by the governor
and by all who know the conditions
of those days. But there has been' a
decided change in sentiment all over
the country since those days, and in
ooum uaKota tne movement at this
time has been made a praptical pe
through the enforcement provisions
which were placed in thf lnw
carried o.ut by a state sheriff who is
not affected or swayed by local senti
ment when he goes after liquor law
violators along with other, offenders.
This is DUt forwnrri lw n,
Norbeck as among the main reasons,
""' wummuuu in soutn Dakota, is a
success in this day, . instead of the
failure which it nrovrt n n,f ;
century ago, when the local sentiment
in many communities winked at any
violation of the law of that time, and
officers were more inclined to asst
in violations of this law in.iqany
These figures can be duplicated nn
a smaller- scale in every town in tho
state, and even Deadwood, which held
out against prohibition longer than
any other town in the state, has come
into line.
Aside from' the records of arrests
as an indication of the difference be
tween the old days of the saloon and
the days of prohibition rigidly en
forced, is the difference the merchant
finds in collecting his bills, and the
manner of dress and mode of living
MR. BRYAN AND GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHD? OP RAILROADS
New Haven, Conn,, Union.
You probably remember, and we
certainly can recall only too well, the
grand old howl that went up all over
this land in 1907 when Mr. William
J. Bryan, returning from a trip
around the world, suggested that in
his judgment the ultimate solution
of the railroad problem in our .coun
try would be some form .of gov
ernment ownership and operation.
This Bryan pronunciamento was mado
at Madison Square Garden, New
York city over ten years ago, and
tne march of events has proven, as
usual, that Mr. Brya,n then, as al
ways, was just about ten years ahead
of his time. War or no war, it has
become more and" more obvious that
the only ultimate, proper solution of
our so-called railroad problem in
America is the one which Mr. Bryan
was roundly abused for even sug
gesting over a decade ago. All of
which is an indication that the old
world does move some after all.
No man of his own generation in
America has advocated so many pol
icies that have finally been adopted
in one form or another as Mr. Bryan.
In 1896 the underlying nrincinle of
his whole campaign for bi-metalism
was the desire for a government in
stead of a privately controlled bank
ing system, a demand for a medium
of exchange based upon the quan
titative rather than, the ouaiitative
,theory of money. Fundamentally
Mr. JBryan was right, as the wholo
history of currenc and banking re
form in this nation for the nast
,twenty years conclusively proves. In
deed our much esteemed federal re
serve system is the concrete, practical
-result of the basic abstract theories
.Of currency and hanlrini? .rftfnfm ad-
jvocated by Mr. Bryan in 1896.
The present war is nrlmoiilv one
to make the world safe against im
perialism, and nothing is more stim
sUlating in these days than to turn
joacK ana read the anti-imperialistic
arguments made by Mr. Bryan in the
uuiuijuiu oi. j.yuu. tie iixea tnen t
international ideals that today are
being offered by this nation as its
Jreason for entering the European
wuuivi.. xu xryu,n auvocauy ui
popular election of U. S. senators, of
publicity of- campaign contributions,
:of the income tax and a host of other;
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