The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-20


what that means.
do they mean that you mast be
paid. must be bribed. TO make your
contribution. a contribution hat costs
you neither a drop of blood nor q 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 At place TO live
in again, amidst peace and justicef
Appeals to Honor.
"Do they NEAR that you will exact
a price, drive a bargain. with the men
who are enduring the agony Of this
war on the battlefields. In the trenches.
amidst the lurking dangers of the sea,
or with the bereaved women and pitt
full children, before You will come for
ward TO do your duty and give some
part Of your life, In easy, peaceful
| fashion. for the things we are fight
/ inE for. the things we have pledged
| oui 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. It is in
conceivable. Your patriotism is of the
same ~self-denying stuff as the pa
triotism Of the men dead or MANNED
on the fields of France, or else II Is
not patriotism at all.
Full Dollars Worth.
LET us never speak, then, Of profits
and of patriotism In the same sem
tence, but face facts and meet them.
Let us do sound business, but not in
the midst Of q mist.
"Many n g%rievous burden of taxa
| ton will be laid on this nation, i'm 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 ii shall be possible to
/ obtain a dollars worth of the sound
stuff they need.
T It me turn for q moment to the
ship owners Of the United States and
the other ocean carriers whose ex-
ample they have followed. and ask
them Il 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.
Making War a Failure.
"They are doing everything that
high freight charges can do to make
the war a failure, to make 1t impos-
sible.
II do not say that they realize this
or intend it. The thing has happened
naturally enough because the commer
cial processes which we are content to
see operate in ordinary times have
without sufficient thought been con-
tinued into a period where they have
no proper place.
II 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 Ger
many. When they realize this we may,
| 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.
Warning Is Sounded.
II know, and you know, what re-
sponse to this great challenge of duty
and of opportunity the nation will ex-
pect of you; and 1 know what re-
Spouse you will make.
"Those who do not respond, who
do not respond in the spirit Of those
who have gone to give their lives for
us on bloody fields far away, may
safely be left to be dealt with by
opinion and the law-for the law must
Of course, command those things.
Il am dealing with the matter thus
publicly and frankly, not because 1 have
any doubt or fear as to the result but
only in order that in all our thinking
and in all our dealings with one an,
other we may nov In a perfectly clear
air of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
and there is something more that
We DluSL duu u our llllllhllS. Liz
public is now as much a part Of the
government as are the army and navy
themselves; the whole people in al
their activities are now modified and
in service for the accomplishment OF
the nations task in his war;; 1t Is
in such circumstances impossible just
~ to distinguish between industrial
purchases made by the government
and industrial purchases made by the
managers of industries, and it is JUS
as much our duty to sustain the indus
trials of the country with all the in
dustries that contribute to its life a:
it is to sustain our forces In the fielC
and on n sea.
Think Not Of Self.
1--WE u make prices to the pub
lie the same as the prices TO the gov
eminent. Prices mean the same thing
everywhere now. They mean the eff
cheney or the ~inefficiency OF the ma
ton, whether ii is the government tina
pays them or not. They mean victor.
or defeat. They mean that America
will win her place once for all among
the foremost free nations of the worlt
-rI l.