Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-08

and naptha would yield. at the present estimated production, $10000, GOO: a tax Of 50 cents per horsepower on automobiles and internal explosion engines. $l5,o0O 900; a stamp tax on bank checks. probably SIS. GOO. GOO; a tax of 25 cents per ton on pig iron SIG, ,000, 000; tax of 5o cents per ton on fabricated iron and steel, propa- bly S10O00000. In a country Of great ln- dustries like this 1t ought to be easy 10 distribute 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 gener- ation should pay the bills of this genera ton.
 The Danger Within.
 have spoken to you today, sgentiehen' upon a single theme, the thorough prep aration of the nation to care TOT us own security and to make sure or entiie freedom to play the impartial role Tn tiis hemisphere and in the world Whlcn we all believe to have been provioentialy assigned to it. I have had in mind no thought of any immediate or particular danger arising out of our relations Wlth other nations. We are at peace with all the nations of the world, and there IS reason to hope that no questlon III COT troversy between this and other govern ments will lead to any serious h:eacn oi amicable relations, grave as some olner- 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, l blush to admit born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity or America, who have poured the poison or dsoyalty into the very arteries of our national life; who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our gov ernment into contempt, to destroy our in- dustries wherever they thought 1t effec- 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 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 it is great enough to have brought deep disgrace upon us and to have made 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. It never dreamed it possible that men sworn into its own citizenship, men drawn out of great free D~~~ 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 entanglement that had darkened the fortunes of the older nations and set up new standard here-that men of such origins and such free choices of allegi- ance would ever turn in maign reaction against the government and people who had welcomed and nurtured them and seek to make this proud country once more a hotbed of European passion. A little while ago such thing would have seemed incredible. Because it was in- credible we made no preparation for it. We would have been almost ashamed to prepare for it, as if we were suspicious of ourselves, our own comrades and neighborsl 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 noth- 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- -sfiscs.--sin Siiscs.--s hey nave
 
 have entered into conspiracies 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. It is possible to deal with these things very effectually. l need not suggest the terms in which they may be dealt with.
 I wish that it could be said that only a 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 an American would in- stinctively make 1t 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 jeans. have so forgotten themselves and their honor as citizens as to put their passionate sympathy with one or the oth- CT side in the great European conflict above their regard for the peace and dig nity of the United States. They. also preach and practice disloyalty. No laws, I 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- tion and scorn which every self-posse.osd 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 na- tions 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 calculable, because no stable, elements in the problem. The most we can do is to make certain that we have the necessary instrumentalities of information constant ly at our service so that we may be sure that we know exactly what we are deal- ing with when we come to act, if it should be necessary to act at all. We must first certainly know what it is that we are seeking to adapt ourselves to- may ask the privilege of addressing you more at length on this important matter little later in your session.
 Transportation Problem.
 The transportation problem Is an ex- ceedingly serious and pressing one in this