The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-13

| question:. .uCoO Uoyo W. ooA ~
preme tria 7nen we are sending hum
! dreds OF -nnds 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 la
bor will ask himself what he is per-
| sonally going to make out OF that Ia
Dor. No true patriot will permit him
! self 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
ing their lives will he not give at
least his money?
ssI 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
J liberal and unusual profits in order
i to stimulate production; that MOTH
| ing hut pecuniary rewards will do it
rewards paid in money, not in the
mere liberation of the world. l take
it for granted chat those who argue
thus do not stop to think what this
means. Do they mean that you must
be paid, must be bribed, to make your
contribution, contribution that>costs
Won neither drop of blood nor tear,
1 when the whole world is in travail and
men eyerywhsre depend upon and
call to you to bring them out of
| bondage and make the world a nt
/ place to live in again amidst peace
and justice? DO they mean you Will
exact a price, drives 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 the pitiful children, before you
will come forward to 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?
VIII Answer Right.
"Of course you will not. 1t is in
conceivable. Your patriotism is OF
! the same self-denying stuff as the pa
| triotism of the men dead Or MANNED
on the field Of France or else it is no
! patriotism at all. Let US never speak
then, of profits and of patriotism IN
the same sentence. Let US do sound
business, but not in the midst OF a
mist. Many grievous burden OF tax
alton will be laid on this nation IN
this generation and in the next to pay
for this war. Let us see to it thai TOR
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 a moment to
ship owners of the United States ana
the other ocean carriers whose ex-
ample they have followed and ask
them if they realize what obstacles,
| what insuperable obstacles, they have
been patting in the way OF the sue
| cessful prosecution of this war by the
ocean freight rates they have been
exacting: They are doing everything
that high freight charges can do to
make the war a failure, to make 1t I'M
possible. I do not say 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. 1 am not
questioning motives. am merely
stating a fact and stating it in order
that attention may be fixed upon 1t.
"The fact is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken the
| most effective means in their power
to defeat the armies engaged against
Germany. When they realize this, we
may, take it for granted, count upon
them to reconsider the whole matter.
r. nc high time. Their extra hazards
are covered by war risk insurance.
Looks for Response.
"I know, and you know what re-
sponse to this great challenge OF duty
and OF opportunity the nation will ex-