Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-12-10

/ OF revenue which car Justly be resorted
| to without hamperng the industries OF
! the country or putting any too great
charge upon individual expenditure.
one per cent tax per gallon on gasoline
and naptha would yield at the present
estimated production, $4,000. 0OO a tax OF
30 cents per horsepower On automobiles
| and internal explosion engines. 81. 0o0, 900,
| stamp tax on bank checks. probably
| $lsOO0.OC0; tax of % cents per ton on
pig iron, $4,000 coo. a tax Of so cents per
ton on fabricated iron and steel, proba-
bly, Sl0.000O00. In country of great in
dustries like this It ought to be easy &c
distribute the burdens of taxation with
out making them anywhere bear too
heavily or too exclusively upon any one
set of persons undertakings. What IL
clear Is. that the industry of this gener-
alton should pay the bills of this genera
tion.
The Danger Within.
! have spoken to you today, gentlemen
| upon single theme, the thorough prep
aration of the nation to care for its
own security and to make sure 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 II. have had in 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
| reason to hope that no question In con-
| troversy between this and other govern
ments will lead to any serious breach OF
| amicable relations, grave as some differ
ences Of attitude and policy have been
and may yet turn out to be. l am sorry
| to say that the gravest threats against
our national peace and safety have been
! 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 bring
1 the authority and good name of our gov
| eminent into contempt to destroy our in
| dustries wherever they thought II effec-
tive for their vndictive purposes to strike
| at them. and to debase our politics to the
| uses OF foreign intrigue. Their number
| Is not great as compared with the whole
number of those sturdy hosts by which
our nation has been enriched In recent
generations out OF virile foreign stocks;
but II Is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon us and to have made
| II 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. II 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 in a high day OF old
! staked its 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 malign reaction
against the government and people who
had welcomed and nurtured them and
| tn nal I'd ~
more a hotbed of European passion.
little while ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Because II was In
credible we made no preparation for II.
We would have been almost ashamed to
prepare for II, as II we were suspicious
of ourselves, our own comrades and
neighborsl But the ugly and incredible
has actually come about and we with.
out adequate federal laws to deal with
It, l urge you to enact such laws al
the earliest possible moment and feel that
in so doing l 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
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 IL
possible TO deal with these things very
effectually. / need not suggest the terms
in which they may be dealt with.
wish that II could be said that only
few men. misled by mistaken sentiments
OF allegiance to the governments under
which they were born. had been guilty OF
disturbing the self-possesslon and --..srep.
resenting the temper and principles OF
the country during these days of terrible
war; when II would seem that every man
who was truly an American would i'm
stinctively make II his duty and his pride
to keep the scales OF judgment even and
prove himself partisan of no nation but
his own. But II 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 then
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
| suppose, can reach corruptions OF the
mind and heart, but ! should not speak
Of others without also speaking of these
and expressing the even deeper humilia-
| lOn anu bcOTn winch every SER poSstSSti
and thoughtfully patriotic American must
feel when he thinks of them and of the
discredt they are daily bringing upon us
transportation Problem.
The transportation problem is an ex.
ceedingly serious and pressing one in this
country. There has from time TO time
OF late been reason to fear that our rail
roads would not much longer be able &c
cope with II successfully as at present
equipped and co-ordinated. | Suggest
that II would be wise TO provide for g
commission OF inquiry TO ascertain by a
thorough canvass of the whole question
whether our laws as at present framed
and administered are as serviceable as
they might be In the solution OF the prob
lem. II Is obviously a problem that Lies
at the very foundation OF our efficiency
as a people Such an inquiry ought tC
draw out every circumstance and opinion
worth considering and we need TO know
al sides OF the matter IL we mean to
do anything In the field OF federal leRisla
tion.
For what we are seeking now, what In
my mind is the single thought OF this
message. is national efficiency and Sc