South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-12

maintenance and development Of in
dustry. and the maintenance and
development Of industry are neces-
sary for the great task we have in
hand.
Must Deal With Facts
But / trust that we shall not
surround the matter with a mist OF
sentiment. Facts are our masters
now. We ought not 20 put the ac-
ceptance OF such prices on the
ground OF patriotism Patriotism has
nothing 90 do with profits in a case
like this.
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 the sea 20 serve a great
cause. no true man who stays be-
hind 10 work for them and sustain
them bv his labor will ask himself
what he is personally going 10
make out Of that labor
IT hear IL insisted that more than
"a just price, more than "a price that
viii sustain our industries. must be
paid. that il is necessary 10 pay
very liberal and unusual profits in
order 10 stimulate production: that
nothing but pecuniary rewards Will
do.-rewards paid i'm money. not in
the mere liberation OF the world.
take 10 for granted that those who
argue this do not stop TO think what
that means. DO they mean that II
must he 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 I'm travail and men every
where depend upon and cal! 10 you
10 bring them out Of bondage and
make the world fit place 10 live in
again, amid peace and Justice?
do they mean that you will ex-
act 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 danger
OF sea- or with the bereaved women
and pitiful children, before you will
come forward 20 do your duty?
The Two Don't Mix.
"Of course You will not. II is in
conceivable Your patriotism is OF
the same self-denying stuff as the
patriotism Of the men dead or
MANNED on the fields Of France. or
else it is no 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.
LET me turn for a moment to the
shipowners 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 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
everything that high freight charges
can do 20 make the war a failure.
10 make it impossible. I do not say
that they realize this or intend it,.
am not questioning motives. / am
merely stating a fact and stating II
in order that attention may be fix
ed upon it,
"The fact is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken
the most effective means IN their
power TO defeat the armies engag-
ed against Germany. When they
realize this we may, T take ii for
granted, count upon them to recon-
slider the whole mater. II is high
time. Their extra hazards are cover
ed by war risk insurance.
Il know. and YOU know, what re-
spouse 10 this great challenge OF
duty and Of opportunity the nation
Will expect of you; and 1 know what