Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...noon today applications for the Liberty Loan bonds will close. By this time all subscriptions from this district must be in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and after twelve o'clock no applications will be received. In order that New England may supply her full quota of $240,000,000 it will be necessary that at least $50,000,000 more be turned in before that time...
According to the latest reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...curious that New England, famous for her men; and if not for her men, for her wealth; and if not for her wealth, for her self sacrifice, should fail now. She failed her allotted quota of enlistments in the army. There were reasons. She is failing now her allotted quota of money. What are the reasons...
...useless to say that Oregon or Arizona or Oskaloosa, Oklahoma, have failed to subscribe their full share. New England is not accustomed to being meted according to the standards of the provinces. Her standards are her own. She has promised that they would be high. They are not high...
...wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...