Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-12
Profits should Not BE Considered

PrOflts should NOt Bc tonsiucTcu
Patriotism leaves profits out of the
question. In these days OF supreme
trial when we are sending hundreds
Of thousands OF our young men across
the seas 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
gong to make out OF that labor No
true patriot will permit himself to
take toll OF their heroism in money or
seek to grow rich by the shedding OF
their blood. He will 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?
II hear 1t insisted that more than
lust price, more than n price that
will sustain our industries, must be
paid: that II is necessary TO pay very
liberal and unusual profits in order to
stimulate productions: that nothing
but pecuniary rewards will do-re-
wards paid in money, not in the mere
liberation of the world. | take II 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 contri-
button contribution that costs you
neltnGf II UtOD Ol Dlbuu nor Il AtuIs
when the whole world Is in travail
and men everywhere depend upon and
| call TO you to bring them out of bond
age and make the world a fit place
to live in again, amidst peace and
Justice? DO they mean that you will
exact n 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 wom-
en- and pitiful children before you will
come forward 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
liberty and justice and fair dealing
and the peace of nations?
| Same as on Battlefield.
| "Ot course you will not. 1t is In
conceivable. Your patriotism is OF tho
same self-denying stuff as the patri-
otism of the men dead or MANNED on
the fields of France or else II is not
patriotism at ALL Let us never speak.
then, of profits and OF patriotism in
the same sentence, but face facts and
meet them. Let us do sound business.
but not In the midst OF a mist. Many
a grievous burden OF taxation will be
laid on this nation in this generation
and the next TO pay for this war. Let
us see to II that for every dollar that
is taken from the peoples pockets 1t
shall be possible to obtain a dollars
worth OF the sound stuffs they need.
| Let me turn for a moment to tho
ship owners OF the United States and
the other ocean carriers whose ex-
amples they have followed and ask
them n they realize what obstacles
what almost insuperable obstacles
they have been putting In the way Of
the successful prosecution Of this war
by the ocean freight rates they have
been exacting They are doing every
| thing that high freight charges can
do to make the war n failure. to make
1t impossible. / do not say that they
realize this or intend II. The thing
has happened naturally enough be-
cause the commercial processes which
We are content to see operate In or
dinary times have without sufficient