Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-07

| ,be end of the fiscal yenr 1917 wuhou'
! onywbcrc making the burden unrchAon-
| ,bIv or opDressivcIy heavy lhe pIeClse
| reciSonings are fully and accurately SeI
out in the report of the secretary or ,.s L,e
! Treasury which will be immedi'teiE
| laid before you
Other Revenue Sources
And there are many additional sources
| of revenue which can justly be Iesorteu
10 without hampering the Industries OF
| tho country or putting any too great
charge upon Individual eNpehuILure l =. -
| tox Of one per cent. per gallon on gnAo-
! IInc md nnphthn would yield, nt the
prcscnt estimated production SlO'oOO'-
| 400, n tov of 80 cents per horsepower
| on automobiles and Internal explosion
| engines, S15,0OO,OOOi stamp tnN on
| bnnls cheques, probably SiS'VOO'VuOi "
tax Of 25 cents per ton on pig ir"n' S'V'-
/ 600 600, n tax Of % cents per ton on
! fabricated iron and steel, prohnbly Si"'-
/ 900 900 In n country of great innuN-
| tries like this 81 ought 10 nc easy 70
| distribute the burdens of taxation Win
out making them anywhere penr @ 70"
| heavily or too exclusively upon nny one
| .ct ~ nersons or undertakings. Whnt
| a. cIcnr is, that the Industry of this
| uencrotton should pny the bills OF THIS
generation.
Peace and "Hyphenates"
7 hive spoken to you today, gentlemen,
upon n single theme, the thorough prep
aration OF the nation to care Tor It's own
security and to make sure of entire Tree
dom to play the impartial role IN TINS
hemisphere and In the world which we
all believe to have been proVldentlally
assigned to II. I have hnd In ihy mind
no Thought of nny immediate or pnrticu-
lnr arising out of our relations with
other nations. We are Mt peace with
nil the nations of the world, nnd there
IL rcnson to hope that no question In
controversy between this and other
Governments will lend to any serious
breach of nmicnblc relations, grave nS
some differences of attitude aud policy
bnyc been and may yet turn out 60 he.
nm sorry 10 say TINT the grnNcSt
threats against our national peace and
snfcty hnyc heen uttered within our own
borders. There are citizens OF the lnlleu
states, ! blush to admit. born under
other flags but welcomed under orr gem
crous naturalization laws TO the fun ire"-
dom and opportunity of America, who
have poured the poison OF disloyalty INTO
the very arteries Of our national life;
who have sought to bring the authority
and good name of our Government into
contempt, to destroy our industries
wherever they thought it effective Tor
their vndictive purposes to strike at
: them ana 10 deDaSe our IplllSS ~ tHS
uses of foreign intrigue. Their number
Is not as great as compared with the
whole number OF those sturdy hosts by
which our nation has been enriched in
recent generations out of Virilc foreign
stocks; but IL iS great enough 10 have
brought deep disgrace upon US nnd to
have made il necessary that we should
promptly make use of processes of law
by which we may he purgcd of their
corrupt distcmpcrs.
Amcricn never Witnessed anything
like this before. II never dreamed II
possible that men sworn into its own
citizenship, men drawn out of grcnt free
stocks such as supplied some OF the
hest and strongest elements OF that
IIttIc, but how heroic, nation that In II
high day of old stnked its very life TO
free itself from every enhancement thnt
hnd darkcned the fortunes of the older
nations md set mp - new standard here