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could talk to
you today

Y FRIENDS, I hate all war. But more than I hate
war, I loathe the man who will not make war in a just
and holy cause.
Before God, we are today arrayed in the holiest and just-
est war ever fought by man ; for what war could be more just
or more holy than that which is fought for the liberation of
down-trodden peoples, for the freedom of nations by all right
independent but too weak to withstand the invader, for the
restoration of homes and schools and churches devastated by
a mad tyrant.

Not for the extension of our territories, not for the ex-
pansion of our commerce, not for the aggrandizement of our
wealth but for such liberation and such freedom and such
restoration, now and forever, at home and wherever men and
women build homes and raise up children in the hope of free-
dom and happiness, are we arrayed against the foe.
Not in the hatred of the foes who oppose the hosts oil
freedom, but with deepest hate for the tyranny they represent
do we go forth to battle.
With hearts bleeding for the sacrifice our manhood must
make, but with iron determination to make this and every
other needed sacrifice in the cause of liberty we must this day
pledge ourselves and all we possess to the prosecution and
speedy termination of this war.
It is that pledge I ask of every citizen of these United
States.

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. The pledge you have given in the•sons and husbands now
on their way to France, I ask you to renew in the support you
give your government.

Victory is to be won by deeds, not by vain shouting and
empty promises.

Some of us must fight with gun and bayonet ; but more of
us must stay at home and fight with the dollars we can earn
in peaceful 'industry.
Lend those dollars to your country, fellow Americans.
Pour into Washington a stream of gold which shall sweep
before it into chaos every last vestige of the pawn of tyranny
and autocracy now seeking to spread its slime over an earth
God-given to a free people.
If Lincoln could talk to you today, wouldn't you take that
pledge? Wouldn't you buy Liberty Bonds? Wouldn't you
make every sacrifice for a cause espoused by "the great eman-
cipator"?
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The spirit and soul of Lincoln are leading us in this war
against Prussianism—"Freedom's Martyr" asks you to sub-
scribe today to the Second Liberty Loan of 1917.

Contributed to
The Second Liberty Loan
of 1917 by

BUY LIBERTY BONDS
ON EASY PAYMENTS.

DAVID E. HEINEMAN
BEN B. JACOB

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thereafter until your bonds are paid for.
, To buy a $50 Liberty Bond you pay
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