Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-12

industry itself trembles in the balance;
but i, would be absurd to discuss them
as motive for helping to serve ano
save our country.
Must Give Money.
Patriotism leaves profits out of the
question. In these days of our supreme
trial. when we are sending hundreds
of thousands of our young men across
therseas to serve great cause, no true
man who stays behind to work for
them and sustain them by his labor
will ask himself what he is personally
going to make out of that labor.
mo true patriot will permit himself
to take toll of their heroism in money
or seek 10 grow rich by the shedding
of their blood He win give as freely
and with as unstinted self-sacrifice as
they. When they are giving their lives,
will he not at least give his money!
Assails bribery"
II hear it insisted that more than
a lust price more than a price that
will sustain our industries, must be
paid: that it is necessary to pay very
liberal and unusual profits in order to
stimulate production; that nothing
but pecuniary rewards will do--re-
wards paid in money not in the mere
liberation of the world.
Il take it for granted that those who
argue thus do not stop to think what
that means.
DO they mean that you must be
paid. must be bribed, to make your
contribution. a contribution that costs
you neither a drop of blood nor tear,
when the whole world is in travail and
men everywhere depend upon and call
to you TO bring them out of bondage
and make the world fit place to i've
in again, amidst peace and justice.
Appeals to Honor.
DO they mean that you will exact
a price. drive a bargain, with the men
who are enduring the agony Of this
war on the battlefield, in the trenches,
amidst the lurking dangers of the sea,
or with the bereaved women and pitt
full children, before you will come for
ward to do your duty and give some
part Of your life, in easy, peaceful
fashion, for the things we are fighting
for the things we have pledged our
fortunes, our lives, our sacred honor to
vindicate and defend-liberry and jus
tice and fair dealing and the peace o.
nations?
.'Of course you will not. 1t is in
conceivable. Your patriotism is Of the
same self denying stuff as the patriot
ism Of the men dead or manned on
the fields of France. or else it is not
patriotism at all.
Full Dollars Worth.
Let us never speak, then, of profits
and of patriotism in the same SEN
tence but face facts and meet them.
Let us do sound business, but not in
the midst Of a mist.
Many a grievous burden of taxa
ton will be laid on this nation, in this
generation and in the next, TO pay for
this war; let us see 70 Ii that
every dollar that is taken from the
peoples pockets it shall be possible
to obtain a dollars worth of the sound
stuff they need.
Let me turn for moment TO the
ship owners Of the United States and
the other ocean carriers whose ex-
ample they have followed, and ask
them If they realize what obstacles,
what almost insuperabIe obstacles.
they have been putting in the way
Of the successful prosecution of this
war by the ocean freight rates they
have been exacting.
Making War Failure.
They are doing everything that
high freight charges can do to make
the war a failure, to make 1t impos-
sible.
II do not say that they realize this
or intend it. The thing has hap
pened naturally enough, because the
commercial processes which we are
content to see operate in ordinary
times have without sufficient thought
been continued into a period where
they have no proper place.
Il am not questioning motives.
am merely stating fact, and stating
1t in order that attention may be fixed
upon IT,"