The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-12-16


mated production. 100000; tax OF 50
cents per horse power on automobiles and
stamp tax on o bank eheeISs probaby SIS
oO0,OoO; tax OF Is cents per ton on pig
iron $40 600; O tax OF so cents per ton on
fabricated iron and steel. probably SlD-
900, COO In q country OF great industries
ike this 1t ought to be easy to distribute
the burdens OF taxation without making
them anywhere pear too heavily or too eX-
cluslyely upon any one set Of persons or
undertakings. What Is clear, IS, that the
Industry OF this generation should pay
the bills OF this generation.
4 have spoken TO You today, gentlemen.
ration OF the nation 10 care Tor lis own
security and to make sure of entire free
dom to play the impartial role in this
hemisphere and in the world which we
all believe TO have been providentially as
signed TO II. | have had IN my mind no
thought OF any immediate or particular
danger arising out Of our relations with
other nations. We are at peace with all
the nations OF the world, and there Is rea-
son to hope that no question in contro-
yersy between this and other govern
ments will lead TO any serious breach of
amicable relations, grave as some diff
ferences OF attitude and policy have been
and may yet turn out to be. ] am sorry
to say that the gravest threats against
our national peace and safety have been
uttered within our own borders. There
arc citizens OF the United States, ! blush
coined under. our. generous naturalization
laws to the full freedom and opportunity
OF America, who have poured the poison
OF dlsloyalty into the very arteries Of our
national life; who have sought to bring
the authority and good name OF our gov
ernment Into eontempt, to destroy cur In
dustries wherever they thought Il effec-
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strike at them, and to debase our politics
to the uses OF foreign Intrigue. Their
number Is not great as compared with
by which our nation has been enriched
in recent generation out of virile foreign
stocks; but IL Is great enough to have
have made Il necessary that we Should
promptly make use of processes of law by
which we may be purged OF their corrupt
A .SIs never
dreamed II possible that men sworn into
its own citizenship, men drawn out of
great free stocks such as supplied some
of the best and strongest elements of that
little, but how heroic, nation that I'm a
high day of old staked it's very life TO free
itself from every ENHANCEMENT that had
darkened the fortunes of the older ma
lions and set up new standard here
that men OF such origins and such free
choices of allegiance would ever turn in
and people who had welcome and nuTS
tured them and seek to make this proud
country once more a hotbed of European
passion: A little while ago such a thing
Il was Incredible we made no preparation
for II. We would have been almost
ashamed TO prepare for II, as II we were
and nelohbors. But the ugly and incred-
ible thing has actually come about and
we are without adequate federal laws to
laws at the earliest possible moment and
feel that in doing so l am urging you to
do nothing less than save the honor and
self respect Of the nation. Such crea-
must be crushed out. They are not many.
but they are infinitely malignant, and the
hand OF our power should close over them
at once. They have formed plots TO de-
stroy property, they have entered Into
conspiracies against the neutrality Of the
government, they have sought to pry
government In order TO serve interests
allen 60 our own. II Is possible to deal
with these things very effectually. !
need not suggest the terms In which they
may be dealt with.
DisioyaI Americans.
wish that II could be said that only
a few men. misled by mistaken senti-
ments of aliegiance to the governments
guilty of disturbing the self possession
and misrepresenting the temper and prin-
ciples Of the country during these days
every man who was truly an American
would instinctively make 1t his duty and
his pride TO keep the scales of judgment
nation but his own But it cannot. There
are some men among Us, and many resi-:
dent abroad who, though born and bred
In the United States and calling them
themselves and their honor as citizens as
to put their passionate sympathy with
one or the other side In the great Euro
pean conflict above their regard for the
peace and dignity Of the United States
They also preach and practice disloyalty.
NO laws. suppose, can reach corruptions
speak of others without also speaking of
these and expressing the even deeper hui
initiation and scorn which every self pos
can must feel when he thinks of them
and OF the discredit they are daily bring
ing upon us.
Domestic Affairs. ..-
While we srNak of the preparation of
the nation to make sure of her security
and her effective power we must not fall
into the patent error of supposing that
her real strength comes from armaments
and mere safeguards of written law. 1t
comes, or course, from her people, their
energy, their success in their undertake
ings, their free opportunity TO use the
natural resources of our great home land
and OF the lands outside our continental
borders which look to us for protection,
for encouragement, and for assistance in
their development; from the organization
and freedom and vitality of our economic
gagged the attention Of the last congresa
are more vital to the nation in this its tinl9
OF test than at any other time. We canA
not adequately make ready for any trial
OF our strength unless we wisely and
promptly direct the force of our laws into
these all-lmportant fields Of domestic ac8
ton. A matter which 1t seems to me we
should have very much at heart is the creS
alton of the right Observation-Disclosures by
which to mobilize our economic resources
In any time of national necessity. take
1t for granted that / do not need your au-
thority to call into systematic consultation
with the directing officers OF the army
and navy men of recognized leadership
and ability from among our citizens who
are thoroughly familiar, for example, with
the transportation facilities OF the country
and therefore competent to advise how
they may be co-ordinated when the need
arises those who can suggest the best
way In which to bring about prompt CO.
operation among the manufacturers OF
the country, should II be necessary, and
those who could assist to bring the TECH
nioal skill of the country to the aid of the
government in the solution of particular
problems of defense / only hope that if
/ should find II feasible to constitute such
an advisory body the congress would be
willing to vote the small sum of money
that would be needed to defray the ex-
penses that would probably be necessary
to give 1t the clerical and administrative
machinery with which to do serviceable
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Vocational Education.
What Is more important is, that the in
dustries and resources OF the country
should he available and ready FOR t1no-