The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-06
WILLIAMS Of
MISSISSIPPI
.. HAS WAR Plan
Would Give Ships OF Allies Free
Access to American Ports,
Harbors and Bases
ALI. INCOMES OVER $780,
900 TO u, S. WAR FUND
av GILSoN GARDNER

Washington, April 6.-ln the cils1s
rproduced by war John Sharp Wllha1hs
of Mississippi, has become the virtual
leader of the senate. His influence
he says will be for carrying OUT tne
following program:
/, Give the ships Of the allies Tree
access to American ports, larbors ana
COaling stations.
Allow Free Transit
2. Allow free transit through the
United States and over our rallroads
of Canadian and other ally troops. -.
3. Take possession Immediately OF
sufficient number of German intern
ed ships to equal the value Of Amer
lean shipping destroyed by Germany.
4. Provide for the immediate train.
! ing of 100000 men to be followed
within three months by call for an
other 100000.
5. Exempt from the provisions or
the income tax law all incomes derlV-
ed from investments in bonds issued
by the allies.
/ Send Regulars to Europe
6. Send few thousand regulars TO
the European battle line with the
Belgians, for its psychological effect.
7. Have the big ships OF the navy
take the offensive in the most effective
way possible by joining the fleets OF
the allies in the scene Of naval activi-
ties.
| 8. Go submarine chasing in that
same zone from which the German
government has $50 insultingly' for
hidden the United States TO enter.
| "Pay-As-You-Enter" War
President Wilson has added his en-
dorsement to the idea of pay-as-you-
enter war. Instead of borrowing and
handing down a debt to coming gen.
erations, the President in his message
urges that war revenues be Sustain
; ed by the present generation This
can he done only by taxing wealth.
| The poor and middle class are already
almost desperate over the high cost OF
living and the only answer is the con-
scription of wealth. All incomes over
500, 900 should 60 to the governments
war fund, and all incomes down to
$4,000 or even less, should be taxed.
This is the plan put up to Congress.
| III Work Every Foot Of Soil
] ludL every SQUARE ydIu VI Soou
soil should be made to work to help
feed the nation" is the slogan put out
by the Agricultural department. A
vacant lot not cultivated or anfuntilled
acre are ."slackers." They are as bad
as, the man who fails to answer his
country's call. And now the depart
ment is asking-why not put a tax on
unused land? Anyone who owns good
land and holds it out of use ought to-
be taxed hard enough to bring the
land into use. The statistics gathered
by Secretary Houston show that only
half the arabic. land in the United
States Is under cultivation.
| ;. Carl NroOman, assistantssecretary of
agriculture, has gone south on speak
,ing tour, the purpose of, which is to
urge southern farmers to raise their
own foodstuffs. Every year the south
with it's wonderful soil and salubrious
climate imports $6O0,OOo,000 worth of
corn, potatoes, garden truck, pigs,
dairy COWS, and things like that he
would he much more Independent and
prosperous and the country would be
richer as a whole This year when
the world Is threatened with a short
age of everything to eat, including
wheat 1t is of the utmost Importance
that the south, which can raise three
crops "a year, come to the bat with a
bumper crop.
+ A don't waste" campaign has been