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3BTVrEyiyg LEmEB-PHILADELmtA, ffHUESDAY, 0CT6bER 25, 191?
Borrow and Buy
The Time for Argument Has Passed.
For Action Has Arrived
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THE present business of the United
States is war. We are in it to the
last dollar, to the last drop of blood,
and we are prepared to fight it out on
these lines. But whenever we can spend
dollars instead of spending lives then we
shall spend dollars billions of them. We
shall furnish the Government with these
dollars-if not through voluntary subscrip
tion to bonds, then through higher taxes.
If a man hesitates over an act which
will save the life of your son you do not
argue with him. It is not our heritage
from the ages that we should argue and
equivocate when human lives are hanging
in the balance. When the choice is clear
and sharp between lending money to the
Government and permitting one unneces
sary life to be lost by our soldiers when
it is bonds or blood when it is a simple
financial arrangement at home or human
agony on the fields of France will any
American hesitate ?
We must not talk in terms of In
vestment when we should be talking
in terms of human fife. The only
possible question left to-day is how
most effectively to act?
The answer is clear, it is to bor
row and buy. This is, not finance.
It is patriotism. Let us not mince words.
Let us not temporize. Let us mobilize
the magnificent machinery of the banks
of America into the war-service of our
Government in the most tremendous
crisis in its history;
Every man in the United States with
a bank account must go to his bank,
borrow all he can9 and buy Govern
ment Bonds. Every bank must be ready
and willing to lend.
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DELAY COSTS BLOODTHE BLOOD OF OUR OWN SONS
EVER Y BANK AND TRUST COMPANY IN PHILADELPHIA
IS PLEDGED to make loans on the 4 Government Bonds at
the same rate of interest paid to you by the Government. Such
loans will not interfere with any borrower's regular line of
credit. We urge every bank in the United States to do likewise ,
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