Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-12
Let US Not Speak OF Profits and ,
Patriotism in the Same Sentence,
Says Wilson in Appeal to. Nation

the liberty OF free men eNerSWiS
and Of industry itself trembles IN tne
balance; but It would be ABSURD w.
discuss them as a motive Tor helpi's
to serve our country.
Patriotism and Profits.
"Patriotism leaves profits out of the
question. In these days of our SUI
preme trial, when we are senaiag
hundreds of thousands Of u young
men across the seas to serve a great
cause, no true man who stays behinu
work for them, and sustain them by
his labor, will ask himself what he IS
personally going to make 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 CIV.
give his money?
II hear it insisted that more than
a just 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 productions; hat nothing
but pecuniary rewards will lore
wards paid In money, not In the mere
liberation of the world.
81 take it for granted hat those
who argue thus do not stop to think
you must be paid. must be bribed, to
make your contribution, a contribu-
ton that costs you neither a drop of
blood nor a tear, when the whole
world is in travail and men every
where depend upon and call to you to
bring them out of bondage and make
the world a fit place to live In again
amidst peace and justice? 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
forward to do your duty and give
some part Of your life, in easy, peace
full fashion, for the things we are
ed our fortunes, our lives, our sacred
honor to vindicate and defend-lib-
erty, justice and fair dealing, and the
peace Of nations.
"Of course you will not. 1t is in
conceivable.
"Your patriotism is of the same
self denying stuff as the patriotism OF
the men dead or MANNED in the fields
France, or else it is not patriotism
all.
'Iet us never speak, then, of profits
and of patriotism in the same sen.
tence, but face facts and meet them.
"Iet Us do sound business, but not
in midst of u mist.
"Many a grievous burden of taxa
ton will be laid OH this nation in this
and in the next, to pay for
this war.
Let US see to it that for every dol
fhot }e fo1rA~ frn~o fho Na4~Jafs
pockets it shall be possible to obtain
dollars worth of the sound stuffs
they need.
Let me turn for a moment to the
owners Of the United States and
ocean carriers whose example
they have followed, and ask them il
they realize what obstacles, what al
most i~nsuperable obstacles, they have
been putting in the way Of the success
prosecution of this war by the
ocean freight rates they have been
that high freight charges can do to
make this war a failure, to make it
! do not say that they
this or intend it. The thing
has happened naturally enough, be-
cause the commercial processes which
we are content to see operate in or
binary times have without sufficient
Deeu continued lnCO a PERIOD
where they have no proper place. I
am not questioning motives. I am
merely stating a fact and stating it in
order that attention may be fixed
upon it.
Giving Aid to Germany.
"The fact is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken
the most effective means in their pow
ed to defeat the armies engaged
against Germany When we realize
this we may, I take it for granted.
count upon them to reconsider the
whole matter. 1t is high time. Their
extra hazards are covered by war risk
insurance.
IT know, and you know, what re-
Spouse to this great challenge Of duty
and OF opportunity the nation will
expect Of you; and I know what re.
spouse you will make. Those who de
not respond. who do not respond IL
the suirit of those who have eon,
to give their lives for use on blood,
fields far away, may safely be left t