The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. THE VICTORY WAR LOAN.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 September 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. THE VICTORY WAR LOAN.

With which is incorporated “The- Taihape Post and Waimarino News.”

With other portions of the British Empire, New Zealand h-as had a great war forced upon it; a long war, ‘a destructive War, and an unprecedently costly War. Industrial life has -been impoverished through the demand for men to go into the struggle, and the great work of reconstruction and repatriation now lies almost wholly ahead. iAII the money that could reasonably be spared from the necessary work of producing meat and wool to feed and clothe the ‘soldiers was freely contributed by the people -to the various loan issues made by the Government, so much so that an air of conscious pride in duty ‘done pervades the whole country_.. ;Vict'ory crowned the efforts of this country .equally.withthe efforts {put "forth —~-by any .other;., everything {asked of ~it _.by the Motherland was ',gladly and. promptly .fo.rthcoming; our people filled the place in theranks iof nations arrayed against aggression X and -lust that it was by ‘nature, best‘ able to fill, -and it has won the plaudits of the whole civilised world that stood for freedom andijustice. The fight _is finished, -and our -collq‘;u‘;el-ing heroes have, very nearly, all returned to their homes. Many of them are men who sacrificed tvhatever progress in li.fe they had. made, and these men ‘are new lswarming in thousands in our midst, ‘Wanting and waiting for the opportunity to re-enter the ranks of the army of Workers on whom we are yet del pendent for winning another great and icqually essential victory. War bills have not yet been paid, however, and fthe divided -task of paying for the ‘war and the repatriatilon of our ‘soldiers now confronts us. There is in g this country ample money to finish off i the payment of its war bills and for the ; honourable repatriation of its soldiers. TA Victory, 3. great decisive victory, has been won over enemies that would have taken our land, displacing New Zealand"ers and putting Germans in their homesteads. ' So thorough and complete was the defeat inflicted on the Empire’s enemies that it is not possible to compel them to pay the lust remnant of the war bill. this count-ry ran up; they were beaten down to being unable even to find food for themselves. The money has to be found, and our unclertakiiigs have to be honourably discharged, and for that purpose’ the Government has issued its last war loan; New Zealand’s “Victory Loan,” in Lian in which the people can testify their gratitude for having elnerged Vi".EO 4.0115 from so fearful a vortex of perilous un- ‘ certainty. Comparatively/, it is -. small ; loan, something of greater izlagi‘-fudcj might very well have been exp:ct3d,l but owing to careful finance the ordinary revenue has more than prividezll for administrative purposes, and in this i connection the country has indeed great 1 cause for satisfaction. The ".I'icl:ory\ loan is necessary to finish up _{rd'_']’l'l'.‘ZllZ.i of war accounts; it will be issued to-‘ morrow, and the full pi-osp9ct'ls will‘ appear in to~lnorroW ’s issue if thisi journal. It is comlllelllle<] to s_3ftlersi in this large, rich territory in iullusti confidence that they will do wh it only 1 they who have can do towards the de—«‘ feat of their enemies. When it isi recognised that the debt has been inc=ir- ! red" in saving the lconnnunity from! slavery; that it is a just debt; that to I preserve the country’s honour it must be paid, there can be no doubt about ‘ money being placed in the Govern-1 ment’s hands in volume more than a.de- E quate for the purpose for which it is; required. Looking back over past War i Loan raising, it is disclosed that New Zealand is not a nation of niggards, not a nation that has the faintest lack ‘Of confidence in being able to achieve a future much more glorious than its past, splendid as that past has been. In subscribing to War‘ loans; ( in zfhe magnificOllt .€§iVing; for patriotic purposes therei has been (i(3lllollS'[.l’{Li'(l(l;illai3 behind the liberal giving is the firin belief that it is merely casting bx-cad upon the waters “Kit is to return after having accomPushed its noble objects. There are in-

I di‘3afi°n-Q that the W3l‘ Will ;h_avc/opened ‘ UP 11 flll9lll‘o for New Zealand that may lnever have otherwise been possible; there are not wanting ga,-thcl-mg eVid_ I ences that riches will flow towards this 'oollllll'Y in the future in incalculably I greater volume than its most Optimistic gcitrzens and statesmen could have 5 hoped for. New Zealand soldiers have I made a grand future possible, and now . New Zealanders with ‘money are going I to invest so much‘ of it ‘in their country as will develop that future to the lgrandest possible limit._ Brit-lsh Em_ “Pll7O Pal'3mollll"rcy must be maintained at all costs, and let it be understood 't-hat no costs are. too great in what! rwill preserve the best interests of the‘ ‘peoples in every part of it. The om ‘financial "status nl'l’l‘,st,sbe -retrieved; The Old VOIIIIYIB ‘Of Empire trade must be largely exceeded; production must be immensely increased, and there is yet plenty of money in the Empire to achieve all this not only in ‘set the Em.-_ pire upon the old time pinnacle, but to give it a much higher and more honourable and unassailable position. By way needs money has become distributed. amongst the people, and fortunate New Zealanders are being asked to-morrow to lend to their Government such sums as are required to pay off war debts, and to enable untrammelled prosecution of reconstruction as Well as a vigorous scheme for more production to be put in hand at the earliest possible moment. This country must get ready for new markets where large and pro- . fitable demand awaits the producing people who are first ready to step in. It is to every producers’ advantage that no available market should be disregarded,_ for in _t_h'e I'ne~l'ting-pot process fiche‘ can correctly predict what that marketing future will bring forth. New Zealand has to be ready to spring when opportunity invites in after-war trade as it develops, and the -one and only way to achieve as glorious an after-war trade victory as that won against the Central Alliance is to have :1. thoroughly healthy and adequate national finance, finance that is only possible by citizens realising their obligatioiis to the State in liberally meetmg the appeals of the Government for contributions‘ ‘to New Zealand’s “£1o',0oj0;oQo, ward;-y War Loan.” '* '7