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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner. Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1918. HOT SHOT We told the other members of the . township board of assessors that money-lenders were not patriots. They neither pay taxes nor take bonds. * * , There are more ways of killing squirrels than by drowning them. The farmers of Abbeville county will either buy bonds or pay taxes. This Government is willing to take their money and pay interest, or it will be compelled to take it without interest. Let the farmers take their choice. If they refuse to buy bonds, they will have no right to complain when the price of cotton is fixed at such a price that the manufacturers may make huere profits which the govern-j ment may take under the excess profits tax. This government stands for no foolishness. We are with the government. * * If the farmers of Abbeville county! will put the profits of the present! cotton crop in Liberty Bonds, the six hundred thousand dollars of Liberty Bonds will have been subscribed, j If they will not subscribe, the government should tax them to the limit. That is where we stand. * afi-i No army will fight without its leaders. No man who is the logical lead ' ' ' - J? 1 3 TITn er has a ngnt to reiuse w ie&u. ???= assert that the bankers in the town of Abbeville are the logical leaders in the fight to raise six hundred thousand dollars of Liberty Bonds. They have no right to refuse to lead. No leader can lead without fighting himself. Will the presidents of the banks in Abbeville each subscribe for $10,000 in bonds, or will they stand aside and let this county be disgraced in the eyes of civilization? They cannot refuse to do their plr.in duty and not take the consequences. If either of them will sign his name to the note, we will get the money. * * * Your Uncle Jim recently sold one hundred bales of cotton. He has one hundred more in the warehouse from last year's crop. He will make more than a hundred this year. It is worth I at present prices thirty thousand dollars. He can put it all in Liberty Bonds if he will. Will he put it all in, or one-half or one-third of it? He cannot refuse to do so and do his part by his town. If he does not want to sell his cotton let him sign a note as we do. We will get the mon , ey* * * One of the rubber-tired farmers about town, we were told a few days ago, said he would make three thousand dollars on a small farm near town this year. He can take five thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds. "Will he do it? If he does not want to sell cotton, let him sign a note like the poor people of this community. We will get the money, if he will sign the note. I " r There is no need for any man to | tell us that it is none of our business" how much he subscribed to the Liberty Loan. We do not believe him. This community has been assessed six hundred thousand dollars as a community. The members of the community are partners when it comes to the payment of this patriotic charge upon us. Every partner has the right to demand that every other partner bear his part of tho butden placed on the partnership. Therefore, we say that it is our business to see that every member of this partnership does his full duty, and we have a right to talk out in the meeting a' J- ^-1 | bout those who ao not ao IHCii uubjr.i I There are plenty of them. They!! need not think we shall have any deli-! I, cacy about calling their names. They, were one-hundred per cent. Ameri-' cans in the recent election, but it' seems that they are now less than! one per cent. Americans. The roll j call will proceed. HOW TO RAISE IT. There is no purpose to be served ' by telling us Abbeville fcannot raise four hundred thousand dollars for 1 '* T :i?T??? The monev is 1 I tne juiucjti.^ uuuu. .... ? I here and it can be raised. Before it j can be raised, however, those most i able must sign the Captain's book. * j Here is how the subscription can * stand, and nobody be hurt: ' Fifty Thousand Dollar Class. Abbeville Cotton Mills. c Ten Thousand Dollar Class. * Rosenberg Mercantile Company. 1 : J. S. Stark. # ' J. Allen Smith. j A. "M. Smith. j S. G. Thomson. ( Five Thousand Dollar Class. ' r I F. E. Harrison, (already subscribed.) c Albert Henry. Estate G. A. Visanska. '' Mrs. C. V. Rosenberg. c J. R. Glenn. The R. M. Haddon Co. P. B. Speed. Lewis Perrin. H. G. Smith. Dr. L. T. Hill. T. G. White. W. H. White. C. H. McMurray. Wm. M. Barnwell. J. Foster Barnwell. A. S. Thomas. G. A. Neuffer. J. D. Kerr. P. A. Cheatham. Wm. P. Greene. G. E. Calvert. S. J. Link. W. D. Barksdale. J. L. McMillan. ( J. Allen Smith, Jr. ^ W. F. Nickles. There is no need for any person mentioned to say that he cannot take the amount we have named. There are others who have not been named, j Every man named must take that I amount or some less able person will ^ i be forced to carry his load. This is | a community affair in which every J individual has a right to ask every ' other individual to do his duty. If ] he cannot give what the community ^ expects, then he should set himself ] straight before the community by telling why he cannot do so. When these men whose names are given above have done what they should it will be high time to talk! ' about publishing the names of those! who have given nothing. We cannot] ! expect the poorer people and the less i ' j informed to take an interest in this j loan and look upon it as a serious matter unless the men who are bet-: ter informed and more able "give, j till it hurts." This IS a serious matj ter. It affects the vital honor of the i people of this community. It is not I the time to subscribe in order to eet \ w r rid of the canvassers. The lives of. ' two millions of men pledged upon j the altar of the country calls from' I overseas for every man to make a! i sacrifice. We will be less than mem | if we refuse. Let us quit ourselves like men to-j ] day. Let every man in the city of! | Abbeville hunt up the canvassers and ! bring his offering. Jtsuy Liberty tfonds, and Help tne ' country to victory. FORWARD, STILL! j, The prospects of peace have noth-i j ing to do with the necessity that Ab- j beville County subscribe for the Lib-! erty loan. If we deem the German j i lote insufficient, the war goes on, if f/e accept as sufficient to authorize in armistice the soldiers must still be kept in the field, and when the treaty of peace is signed, the soldiers must be returned to this country, Take no excuse that the money is no1 needed. It must be forth-coming; ii the government does not need it ii will not be demanded, if the government does need it, it must be in the hands of the Treasury. Let the canvass proceed. In our next issue we hope to b< able to report a quorum in the ter and five thousand classes, and to be gin the roll call of the twenty-fiv< hundred and one thousand dollar pa triots. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." Caesar is th< government unaer wnicn you nve The things that are Caesar's are un< divided loyalty to and support of'th< government under which you live. IS IT POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE IT' There Are 1,369,000 People in Soutt Carolina Who Did Not Buy a Sec* ond or Third Liberty Bond. The following is issued by the Liberty Loan organization of the i^ifth Federal District. Is It Possible to Believe It? There are 1,890,000 people, of all iges, in Virginia, who did not .buy a jond of the Second or Third. Liberty lioan. There are 2,262,000 in North Car)!ina; there are 1,369,000 in South Carolina; there are 1,065,000 in West Virginia (in the 5th District); ;here are 1,105,000 in Maryland. This, too, is upon the assumption ?on the side of liberality?that none the people who subscribed to the Second Loan subscribed to the Third. This we know, of course, is not the lase. What can these people who are ible to buy say in extenuation? How :an they ever look a returned sollier boy in the eye? What will be heir relation to those who have done heir part when we show an honor oil of deeds done after the war? Following is the cable reply of General Pershing to the Governor >f the New York Reserve Bank on ;he occasion of the General's birthiay: i "I I am very greatly touched by four felicitations upon the occasion >f my anniversary, and I thank you iincerely. "The Fourth Liberty Loan will be i magnificent success if your fellow :itizens put into the subscriptions ;ne same spirit inai your soiaiers pui nto battle." Can the people fail to put the "soliier's spirit" into the loan? LIBERTY LOAN ORGANIZATION, Fifth Federal Reserve District. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SUBSCRIBERS TO 4TH LOAN The employees of the Southern Railway are taking an interest in the Fourth Liberty Loan. The following is the subscription list furnished us oy one in authority: M. B. Syfan $500.0C H. M. Bauknight 600.OC D. B. Poore 50.0C r. A. Klugh 50.0C M. J. Butler 50.OC B. F. Swetenburg 100.OC Ben McMorris 400.0C Jean Smith 50.0C Walter Davis 50.0C Dan Riley 50.0C J. H. 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