Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-12-06
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

industries OF the country or putin,
any too great charge upon individual
expenditure. A one per cent tax pc
gallon an gasoline and naptha woul'
yield, at the present estimated pro
duction, $4,000, 900; a tax of SO cent
per horse power on automobiles ane
internal explosion engines, $15,OOO,
0O; a stamp tax on bank cheques
probably $l8,O00,OSO; a tax of 2;
cents e ton on pig iron, $10,QO0,OO0.
a tax Of so cents per ton on fabricat.
ed iron and steel, probably $1O,O00,-
OOO. In a country of great industries
like this it ought to be easy to dis
tribute the burdens of taxation with
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 generation should pay the bills
OF this generation.
Hyphenated Americans
| have spoken to you today, gen
tlemen, upon a single theme, the
thorough preparation of the nation 20
care for its wv security and to make
ure of entire freedom to play the
impartial role in this hemisphere and
in the world which we all believe to
have been providentially assigned to
it. | have had in my mind no thought
of any immediate or particular dan
ger arising out of our relations with
other nations. We are at peace with
all the nations of the world, and there
is reason to hope that no question in
controversy between this and other
governments will lead to any serious
breach of amicable relations, grave
as some differences of attitude and
policy have been and may yet turn
out to be. | am sorry to say that
the gravest threats against Our ma
tional peace and safety have been ut
tered within our own borders. There
are citizens of the United States, l
blush to admit, born under other flags
but welcomed under our generous
naturalization laws to the full free
dom and opportunity of America, who
have poured the poison of disloyalty
the very arteries of our national
life; who have sought to bring the
authority and good name of u gov
eminent into contempt, to destroy
our industries wherever they thought
it effective for their vindictive pur-
poses to strike at them, and to de-
base our politics to the uses OF for
eign intrigue. Their number is not
great as compared with the whole
number of those sturdy hosts by
which our nation has been enriched
n recent generations out of virile
stocks; but it is great enough
20 have brought deep disgrace upon
is and to have made it necessary that !
We should promptly make use of
processes of law by which we may be
ourged OF their corrupt distempers.
America never witnessed anything
ike this before. 1t never dreamed it
that men worn into its
citizenship, men drawn out of great
rec stocks such as supplied some Of
he best and strongest elements of
hat little, but now heroic, nation that
II a high day of old staked its very
ife to free itself from every %endhngle-
nent that had darkened the fortunes
If the older nations and set up a new
tandard here-that men of such orr |
rims and such free choices of allegi- ;
nee would ever turn in ma1ign re-
.ction against the government and !
who had welcomed and nur-
ured them and seek to make this
'roud country once more a hotbed
If European passion. A little while
go such a thing would have seemed
Incredible. Because it was incredible
We made no preparation for it. We
would have been almost ashamed to !
for it. as if we were suspic-
Gus of ourselves, our own comrades
nd neighbors! But the ugly and in
redible thing has actually come
bout and we are without adequate
ederal laws to deal with it. I urge
on to enact such laws at the earliest
possible moment and feel that in do
ng so I am urging you to do nothing
ess than save the honor and self
aspect of the nation. such creatures
VI passion, disloyalty and anarchy
must be crushed out. They are not
many, but they are infinitely malig-
lant. and the hand of our power
close over them at once. They
lave formed pfofs to destroy proper
y, they have entered into conspira-
fes against the neutrality of the
government, they have sought to
Try into every confidential t%ransac-
ion of the government in order to
interests alien to Jul own 1t
5 possible to deal with these things !
yery effectually. | need not suggest
he terms in which they may be dealt