The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-07-19

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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 a fit place to live
In again, amidst peace and Justice?
Appeals 70 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 battleflelds. In the trenches.
amidst the lurking dangers Of the sea,
or with the bereaved women and pitt
tOI children, before you will come for
ward to do your duty and give some
par OF your life, in easy, peaceful
fashion. for the things we are fight
ing for, the things we have pledged
our fortunes, our lives, our sacred hon
or to vindicate and defend-liberty
and justice and fair dealing and the
peace of nations?
"Of course you will not. 1t Is In
conceivable. Your patriotism is M the
same self-denying stuff as the pa
triotism of the men dead or manned
on the fields of France, or else 1t 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 to 1t that for
every dollar that is taken from the
peoples pockets 1t shall be possible to
obtain a dollars worth Of the sound
stuff they need.
LET me turn for a 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 insuperable obstacles,
they have been putting in the way OF
the successful prosecution Of this war
by the ocean freight rates they have
been exactlng.
Making War a Failure.
"They are doing everything thai
high freight charges can do to make
the war failure, to make 1t impos
sible.
II do not say that they realize this
or intend 1t. The thing has happened
naturally enough because the CONNER
cial processes which we are content tC
see operate in ordinary times have
without sufficient thought been con
tinued into a period where they have
no proper place.
'"I am not questioning motives.
am merely stating fact, and stating
upon 1t.
"The fact is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken the
most effective means in their power Il
defeat the armies engaged against Ger
many. When they realize this we may
take it for granted, count upon then
to reconsider the whole matter. 1t i
high time. Their extra hazards ar
covered by war risk insurance,
Warning Is Sounded.
II know, and you know, what re
Sponse to this great challenge Of dut
and of opportunity the nation will ez
pect of you; and l know what re
spOnse you will make.
"ThOse who do not respond, VIII
do not respond in the spirit Of thOs
who have gone to give their lives fo
us on bloody fields far away, ma
safely be left to be dealt with
opinion and the law--for the law mus
of course, command those things.
Il am dealing with the matter thu
publicly and frankly, not because haV
any doubt or fear as to the result bl
only in order that in all our thinkin
and in all our dealings with one al
other we may move in perfectly cles
air of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
"And there is something more tn;
we must add to our thinking. TT
public is now as much part of II
government as are the army and nav
themselves; the whole people In q
their activities are now mObilized ar
in service for the accomplishment I
: the nations task in this war; 1t
in such circumstances impossible jus
ly to distinguish between induStri
and industrial purchases made by Il
. managers of industries, and it Is ju
as much our duty to sustain the indu
trials Of the country with all the
dustries that contribute to it's life
l it is to sustain our forces in the f1e
and on the sea.
[ Think Not Of Self.
1--WE must make prices to the pu
: lie the same as the prices to the &c
D ernment. Prices mean the same thil
everywhere now. They mean the et
3 cheney or the inefficiency of the n
: ton, whether it is the government tn
: pays them or not. They mean victo
q or defeat. They mean that Ameri
!, will win her place once for all amo
o the foremost free nations of the VOL
y or that she will sink to defeat and
S come a second-rate power alike
t thought and in action. This is a d
of her reckoning and every man amo
f us must personally face that reckoni
y along with her.
"The case needs no arguing. I
y sumo that I am only expressing yo
e own thoughts-what must be in
r mind of every true man when he fat
s the tragedy and the solemn glory
tho nrnSent war for the emnncinati