Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...individuals buy unnecessary things, that is, wearing apparel, jewelry and food, they are depriving the Government of labor which can be employed in the production of ammunition, rifles, automobiles, food-stuffs, etc., necessary to the maintenance and operation of an army. On this account the duty of each individual citizen is not only to subscribe to the limit of his ability, but also to resolve to pay that subscription out of a reduced expenditure for living purposes. Subscriptions for Liberty Bonds made in this way not only give the Government a means of purchasing war materials, but also release materials...
...that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...
This is not the time, therefore, to single out any particular group or class of citizens for reproach. All classes are equally guilty and equally meritorious. That is there are individuals in all classes who are willing to suffer inconvenience and hardship in order to win the war, and there are others who are not. There is not the slightest doubt that a strike in any essential industry is a hindrance to the great work of massing our man power at the points where it is needed. No loyal citizen who sees and understands that fact can possibly favor...
Your plan of selling Smileage Books seems to be an admirable way of financing this worthy enterprise because it gives to the individual citizen an easy opportunity of furnishing the means for numerous good times to his soldier friends...