A MOTION TO PURCHASE LIBERTY

This does not mean a donation, but simply that we buy bonds and thereby help our Government. I think that everybody present feels that we must do everything we can to sustain the Government, as we have declared that we are willing to do. We cannot shirk the duties that devolve upon us as citizens of this State and this Nation. We want to sustain the Nation, to sustain the Government, in the pursuit of obtaining a victory for the right ; and I move that we authorize the Trustee-in-Trust to negotiate for such an amount of these bonds as he shall find that the means of the Church can stand, not to exceed a quarter of a million dollars. ¶

Prest. Charles W. Penrose

Seconding the Motion to Purchase Liberty Bonds

I arise to second the motion presented by President Lund. Perhaps you did not all hear it distinctly. The resolution is that this Conference, representing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, authorize the Trustee-in-Trust to negotiate for the purchase of Liberty Bonds, in aid of our great Nation and Government to defend the principles of constitutional liberty, and to wage a war of defense against oppression and tyranny in all the world, for the purpose of aiding in spreading light and truth and freedom to all nations, and that the President of the Church, the Trustee-in-Trust, be authorized to enter into this negotiation for the purchase of bonds as circumstances will permit, and not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I second the motion with great pleasure, believing that it will be for the right, and that it will be supported by the Latter-day Saints who are true in the faith, everywhere. ¶