The Post-search light. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1915-current, October 17, 1918, Image 5
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By SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE
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The war will be won by men and ships, by guns
and airplanes. To raise armies and supply them,
to build the navy and support it, and to furnish
ships and transport, we must have money in
large amounts. The expenditures of the Gov
ernment for the ensuing year are estimated
at $24,000,000,000, a sum which baffles the
imagination to conceive. That vast amount
must come one-third from taxes and two-thirds
from loans. The success of the Fourth Loan,
like those that preceded it is, therefore, abso
lutely necessary. We must work with the
highest speed, as if the war was to end in six
months. We must prepare in every direction,
as if it was to last for years. Speed and prep
aration are both expensive.
Without the Loans We Cannot, Have Either
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We are fighting to secure a just, righteous and lasting peace.
For a complete peace we must have a complete victory. It
must not be a peace of bargain or negotiation. No peace
which satisfies Germany can ever satisfy us. No peace that
leaves Germany in a position to renew the war against us will
be worth having. It will be far from sufficient to gain all our
objects on the Western front—Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Italia
Irredenta. The President with wisdom and foresight and great
force expressed his determination to redeem Russia. Russia
must not be left in Germany's hands. That would mean
another war. Poland must be free. Slav republics must be
established to bar the way between Germany and the East.
Serbia and Roumania must be redeemed. All these things are
essential. Nothing will bring them but complete victory
and a peace dictated by us and our alliee. It is a conflict
of ideas. It is the principle of evil arrayed against the principle
of good. It is the battle of freedom and civilization against
barbarism and tyranny. We mu»t win and we ehall win.
We Cannot Win Without Money, and, Therefore, These Loans Are
Vital,' and the Country Should Rally in All Its Strength - ., j
and Subscribe and Oversubscribe the Fourth Loan
Buy Bonds to Your Utmost!
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