The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-12-09

| estimated production, $4,000 coo; tax OF
/ so cents per horsepower on automo a aoe
| and internal explosion engines $lo,oOO'ooV'
| a stamp tax on bank checks, prooaOiy
/ e1s oOo 600. a tax of Is cents per ton on
| mig iron $40, 600, 600; a tax of 30 cents per
/ ton on fabricated iron and Steel proDa-
| bly, SO, ,0OO. In a country or great IN
| dustries like this it ought to be easy 10
| distribute the burdens OF taxatlon VIII
| out making them anywhere bear TOO
heavily or too exclusively upon any one
set of persons or undertakings. what Is
clear is, that the industry OF this geneF-
alton should pay the bills OF this genera
| ton.
The Danger Within.
have spoken to you today, gentlemen,
upon a single theme, the thorough prep
/ aration of the nation to care Tor its
own security and to make sure OF ehuie
freedom to play the impartial role In TINS
hemisphere and in the world wnlcn we
| all believe to have been provident1ally
assigned to it. I have had in mind no
| thought of any immediate or particular
danger arising out of our relations WIN
| other nations. We are at peace with All
the nations of the world, and there -
reason to hope that no question In con-
troversy between this and other govern
ments will lead to any serious preach Oh
amicable relations, grave as some olHer-
ences Of attitude and policy have peen
and may yet turn out to be. 1 am sorry
our national peace and safety nave oeen
uttered within our own borders. There are
citizens of the United States, I blush to
admit born under other flags but welcomed
under our generous naturalization laws
to the full freedom and opportunity OF
America, who have poured the poison OF
disloyalty into the very arteries OF our
national life; who have sought to Drlng
the authority and good name OF our gov
eminent into contempt, to destroy our In
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tive for their vindictive purposes to strike
at Them and to debase our politics to the
uses of foreign intrigue. Their number
is not great compared with the Whole
number of those sturdy hosts by when
our nation has been enriched In recent,
generations out of virile foreign stocks;
but it is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon us and to nave mace
it necessary that we should promptly
make use of processes Of law by which
we may be purged of their corrupt dis
tempers. America never witnessed any
thing like this before. 1t never dreamed
it 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 in high day of old
staked it's very life to free itself from
every ENHANCEMENT that had darkened
the fortunes of the older nations and set
up a new standard here-that men of such
origins and such free choices of allegi-
ance would ever turn in mallgn reaction
against the government and people VINO
had welcomed and nurtured them and
seek to make this proud country once
more hotbed of European passion. A
little while ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Because it was in
credible we made no preparation for 1T.
We would have been almost ashamed to
prepare for it, if we were suspicious
Of ourselves, our own comrades and
neighbors! But the ugly and incredible
has actually come about and we are with
out adequate federal laws to deal with
it. I urge you to enact such laws at
the earliest possible moment and feel that
in so doing I am urging you to do moth
ing less than save the honor and self
respect of the nation.
Must Be Crushed Out.
Such creatures of passion. disloyalty
and anarchy must be crushed out They
are not many. but they are infinitely ma
lignant. and the hand of our power should
close over them at once. They have
formed plots to destroy property, they
have entered into conspracies against the
neutrality of the government, they have
sought to pry into every confidential
transaction of the government in order
to serve interests alien to our own. 1t is
possible to deal with these things very
effectually. I need not suggest the terms
in which they may be dealt with.
I wish that it could be said that only q
few men, misled by mistaken sentiments
of allegiance to the governments under
which they were born, had been guilty of
disturbing the self-possession and misrep-
reSenting the temper and principles of
the country during these days of terrible
war, when it would seem that every man
who was truly American would in
stinctively make it his duty and his pride
to keep the scales of judgment even and
prove himself a partisan Of no nation but
his own. But it cannot. There are some
men among us, and many resident abroad
who, though born and bred in the Unit
ed States and calling themselves Amer
leans, have SO forgotten themselves and
their honor as citizens as to put their
passionate sympathy with one or the 9TH
er side in the great European conflict
above their regard for the peace and dig.
nifty of the United States They also
preach and practice disloyalty. No laws,
1 suppose, can reach corruptions of the
mind and heart; but I should not speak
of others without also speaking of these
and expressing the even deeper humilia-
ton and scorn which every self POSSESSED
and thoughtfully patriotic American must
feel when he thinks of them and of the
discredit they are daily bringing upon us.
Many conditions about which we have
repeatedly legislated are being altered
from decade to decade, it is evident, un-
der our very eyes, and are likely to change
even more rapidly and more radically in
the days Immediately ahead Of us, when |
peace has returned to the world and ma |
tons Of Europe once more take up their |
tasks of commerce and industry with the |
energy Of those who must bestir them |
selves to build anew. Just what these |
changes will be no one can certainly fore |
see or confidently predict. There are no |
calculab1e, because no stable, elements in
the problem The most we can do is 10 |
make certain that we have the necessary !
instrumentalities of information constant, |
ly at our service so that we may be surAr |
that we know exactly what we are deal |
ing with when w fo 4