The Green Forest tribune., 1915-12-10

and naptha would yield at the present estimated production, S10,00o,00o a tax or 50 cents per horsepower on autohlopile9 and internal explosion engines, $lo,ooo'Vo'
 a stamp tax on bank checks probably SIS GOO; a tax of 9 cents per ton on
 pig iron $10OO0,000; a tax of 50 cents per ton on fabricated iron and steel, proba-
 bly s1O 900. In a country Of great ln- dustries like this 1t ought to be easy 10 distribute the burdens of taxation Wlth- ont making them anywhere pear 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 or thls genera
 tion.
 The Danger Within.
 I have spoken to you today, gentlemen, upon a single theme, the thorough prep aration of the nation to care for It's own security and to make sure of entire freedom to play the impartial role in this bemisphere and in the world which we all believe to have been proVldenuaily assigned to it. I have had in nina no thought of any immediate or partlcular 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 or amicable relations, grave as some dlIef- enees of attitude and policy nave been and may yet turn out to be. l am sorry to say that the gravest threats agalnst 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 CT America, who have poured the polSon or disoyalty 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 ln- 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 nave mace 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 it's own citizenship, men drawn out of great free stocks such as supplied some of the best ana strongest elements OI lHdl Illle, pul 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 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 seek to make this proud country once hAd nf Scin A little while ago such a thing would have seemed incredible Because it was in credible we made no preparation for 1t. We would have been almost ashamed to prepare for it. as if we were suspicious of ourselves, our own comrades and ueighborsi 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 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 ifgnant, 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. It is possible to deal with these things very I need not suggest the terms in which they may be dealt with.
 I 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 1t 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 1t cannot. There are some men among us, and many resident abroad who, though born and bred in the Unit cd States and calling themselves Amer icans 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 nifty of the United States. They also preach and practice disloyalty. No laws, I suppose, can reach corruptions of the mind and heart; but 1 should not speak of others without also speaking of these ana expressing the even deeper hum1lla- tion and scorn which every self f-posseesed 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