Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

1 90 cents per horsepower on dutoinopuS&
and internal explosion engines, $l5,oO0.0 600;
a stamp tax on bank checks. probably
$4,000. 900; a tax of % cents per ton ON
zig iron, $4,000 900; tax OF so cents Per
ton on fabricated iron and steel. proba-
bly, $4,000 00. In country of great In
dustries like this Il ought to be easy to
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 Ii
| clear is, that the industry of this gener-
alton should pay the bills of this genera
ton.
The Danger Within.
/ have spoken to you today, gentlemen,
! upon single theme, the thorough prep
| aration Of the nation TO care for lts
1 own security and to make sure OF entire
| freedom to play the impartial role In this
hemisphere and in the world which we
1 all believe to have been providentiallN
/ assigned to 1t. 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 flegs but welcomed
under our generous naturalization laws
| to the full freedom and opportunity of
America, who have poured the poison OF
disoyalty into the very arteries of our
national life; who have sought to bring
the authority and good name of our gov
n DESTROY
dustries wherever they thought it 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. 1t never dreamed
il possible that men sworn into It's 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 OiQef naIl0uS ana set
up 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
seek to make this proud country once
more hotbed of European passion.
little while ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Because 1t was In
credible we made no preparation for It.
We would have been almost ashamed to
prepare for 1t, as 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. urge you to enact such laws at
the earliest possible moment and feel that
in so doing ] 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 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. 1t is
effectually. / need not suggest the terms
in which they may be dealt with.
wish that 1t 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 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 dsloyalty. 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-
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, 1t Is evident, I'M
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
lions of Europe once more take ND 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 II
should be necessary TO act at all. We
must first certainly know what 1t is that
we are seeking to adapt ourselves to.
LIZ. IL L.