New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-20

i tuke IL LOT granted tHal tnoS'
who argue thus do not stop to thinl
what that means.
"Do they mean that you must bt
paid. must be bribed, TO make YOU
contribution. a contribution that costs
you neither a drop of blood nor n tear
when the whole world is In travail ant
men everywhere depend upon and cal
to you to bring them out Of bondage
and make the world a fit place to live
In again, amidst peace and justice?
Appeals to Honor.
"Do they mean that you will exact
n 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 r fight
ing for, the things we have pledged
our fortunes, Il lives, our sacred hon
or to vindicate and defend-liberty
and justice and fair dealing and the
peace of natlons7
"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 fields of France, o. else 1t is
not patriotism mt all.
Full Dollars Worth.
"Let us eve 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 n mist.
MANY n 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 it that for
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 n 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 eXacting.
Making War a Failure.
"They are doing everything hat
high freight charges can do to make
the war a failure, to make it impos-
sible.
~ do not say that they realize this
or intend it. The thing has happened
naturally enough because the CONNER
cinl 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 an not questioning motives. l
merely stating a fact, and stating
1t 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
the armies engaged against Ger
many. When they realize this we may,
I take 1t for granted, count upon them
reconsider the whole matter. 1t Is
high time. Their extra hazards r
covered by war risk insurance.
Warning Is Sounded.
II know, and you know, what re-
Spouse to this great challenge of duty
and Of opportunity the nation will ex-
pect Of you; and I know what re-
Spouse you will make.
"ThOse who do not respond, who
do not respond in the spirit of those
who have gon to give their lives for
us on bloody fields far away, may
be left to be dealt with by
and the law-fOr the law must, |
Of course, command those things.
II I'm dealing with the matter thus
publicly and frankly, not because / have
any doubt or fear as to the result but
in order that in all our thinking
and in all our dealings with one an
other we may move in a perfectly clear |
AIT OF mutual UNDERSTANDING. |
Must Have Same Prices.
"And there Is something more that
must add to our thinking. The
public Is now as much a part of the
themselves; the whole people in all
heir activities are now modified and
n service for the accomplishment of
he nations task in this war; it Is
n such circumstances impossible just
Y to distinguish between industrial
purchases made by the government
md industrial purchases made by the
managers of industries, and 1t is just
IS much our duty to sustain the indus
rails Of the country with all the in
that contribute to It's life as
t Is to sustain our forces in the field
nd on the sea.
Think Not Of Self.
1--WE must make prices to the pub
lc the same as the prices to the gov
Prices mean the same thing
verywhere now. They mean the eff
iency or the inefficiency of the ma
ion. whether it is the government that
ays them or not. They mean victory
r defeat. They mean that America
will win her place once for oil among
he foremost free nations of the world
r that she will sink to defeat and be-
ONE a secOnd-rate power alike in
bought and in action. This is a day
f her reckoning and every mar among
s must personally face that reckoning
long with her.
1.-The case needs no arguing. I as
ume that l am only expressing your
wn thoughts-what must be in the