Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-12
AND PROFITS DO NOT
MIX, PRESIDENT TELLS COUNTRY


NV FELLOW Countrymer
The Government determine the prices which
will ask heneoh furnish various supplies which
for the prosecution of the materials which will be needed
justly advantage
which hope we shall all keep steadily in mind while this par
cular problem of justice being worked therefore take the liberty
which guide
facurers of the country in this difficult matter
just price of everything Government buys
By just price mean price which will sustain the industries concerned
them good possible expansions enterprises
great develop We could not wisely or reasonably
than pay such prices They for the maintenance and develop
necessary for the shall
We acceptance such prices the ground patriotism
Patriotism has nothing do with like this Patriotism and
% ought never the present mentioned together
PROFITS BUSINESS, NOT PATRIOTISM
1t is perfectly to discuss profits of business with
liberty of free men everywhere and industry
ise rembles the balance but would absurd discuss them
motive for helping Patriotism profits
supreme trial when we are sending
true who behind them by labor
patriot permit take toll of their herosm in money
to grow rich bv the shedding Of their blood We will give as freely
and with unnted fsacrfce they When they giving their
lives will at least money?
hear insisted that than just price, than price that
will sustain industries be pd that
but necupiarv rswar5s O wis, do O I IN ] 3 i' m b 0 ]
liberation of the world take it for granted that those who thus do
buton you a drop of blood nor tear
when the whole world everywhere
bring them
in again amidst and justice?
NO TINE TO DRIVE A BARGAIN
Do they mean that you will exact price drive bargain with the
amid the lurking dangers of the with the beeaved and the
pfu children before will
part Of your life peaceful fashion for the things fighting
the things have pledged fortunes lives sacred honor
cate and defendbery and justice and fair dealing and the of
nations? Of will mott 1t inconceivable
Your patriotism the elfdenying
the dead MANNED the fields of patriotism
at all Let US never speak thsn of profits and patriotism in the
the midst of mist Many burden of taxation will be laid this
nation in this generation and in the next for this let
that dollar that taken from the peoples
possible to obtain dollars worth of the sound sufs they
Let me turn for moment the shpownes the United States and
other whose example they have followed
realize what obstacles what almost nuperabe obstacles they
freight They everything
do that they realize this intend it. The thing happened
naturally the commercial which
ordinary without sufficient
tued period where they have place questioning
motives merely stating fact and stating in order that
may be fixed upon
HAZARDS COVERED INSURANCE
The that those who have fixed freight
Germany granted
the whole 1t high their
covered by war-rsk insurance
what great challenge duty
opportunity the nation will and what response
who have give their lives bloody fields
course things. dealing thus
publicly frankly because have doubt
order that in all thinking and dealings with
wema a perfectly of mutual understanding
And there something that add thinking
public army navy
whole all their activities
the accomplishment of the nations task
such circumstances impossible to justly distinguish between industrial
made by the Government and industrial purchases made by
Of individual Industries and % it it just as much our duty to
to sustain forces in the field and on the
PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT THE SAME
prices prices to the
efficiency the nation whether it the pays
them or not They victory They America will
all the foremost