Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10

ana ndplna WOu1O ylelo, at PfcSOfS
estimated production, $4,000, 600; tax OF
| so cents per horsepower on automobiles
and internal explosion engines. Si5O00,0 600;
| a stamp tax on bank checks. probably
| SIS, 600, 000; a tax Of Is cents per ton on
| pig iron, SO, 900 600; q tax of so cents per
| ton on fabricated iron and steel, proba-
| bly, 100000. In a country of great in
| dustries like this Ii 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 10
| clear is that the industry of this gener-
| alton should pay the bills of this genera
| ton.
The Danger Within.
| I have spoken to you today, gentlemen,
| upon a single theme. the thorough prep
| aration Of the nation to care for its
| own security and 10 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 it. I 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 dlner-
| 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 generous naturalization laws
/ to the full freedom and opportunity of
| America, who have poured the poison of
| disloyalty into the very arteries or our
| national life; who have sought to bring
| the authority and good name of our gov
| eminent into contempt, to destroy our in
| dustries wherever they thought 1t effecy
| 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 1t 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
| 1t 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 alleg1-
| ance would ever turn in malign reaction
| against the government and people who
had welcomed and nurtured them ano
| seek to make this proud country once
| more a hotbed of European passion.
| little while ago such thing would have
| seemed incredible Because 1T was In
| credible we made preparation for 1t.
| We would have been almost ashamed to
prepare for it, 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. I urge you to enact such laws at
! 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
| Hgnant 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
| 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
No
| war, when it would seem that every man
| who was truly an American would in
| stinctively make it 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 disloyalty. No laws,
| suppose, can reach corruptions of ths
| 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-possss9sd
| and thoughtfuly 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 legisated are being altered
| from decade to decade, it 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
| 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
| 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, II 1t
| should be necessary to act at all. We
| must first certainly know what 1t is that
we are seeking to adapt ourselves to. /
may ask the privilege of addressing you
more at length on this important matter
a little later in your session.
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-