The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-07-19

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who arc 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 piti-
rul children, before you will come for
ward to 90 your duty and give some
part OF your life, in easy, peaceful
fashion, for the things we are fight
ing for, the things we have pledged
our,1ortunrS. our lives, our sacred hon.
vi 10 Vlndicate and dcfend-lberty
ana justice ana fair dealing and the
peace Of nations?
| Of course YOU will not. It is in
conceivable. Your patriotism Is of the
same sclf-denying stun as the pa-
'rlotism of the men dead or maimed
OH the fields Of France, or else It is
not patriotism ut all.
Full Dollars Worth,
LEI us never speak, then, Of profits
ana or patriotism in the same SEN
tehcc' but face facts and meet them.
Let us do sound business, but not in
! the midst of mist.
Many a grievous burden of taxa
tlon VIII be laid on this nation. I'm this
i"'i"ii anu III tHc next, TO pay TOr
'his war; let us see to It that for
every dollar that Is taken from tho
peoples pockets 1t shall be possible to
obtain dollars worth of the sound
stuff they need.
Let me turn for moment to tho
snip owners Of the United States and
the other ocean curriers' whose cx.
ample they have followed, and ask
them If they realize what obstacles,
what almost inSupernble obstacles.
they have been putting in the way of
the successful prosecution of this war
by the ocean freight rates they have
been cXacting.
Making War a Failure.
"They are doing everything that
| 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
| clal processes which we are content to
see operate in ordinary times have
| without sufficient thought been con-
| tlnucd Into period where they have
nv PipptI IiuCt.
am not questioning motives.
am merely stating a fact, and stating
1t IN order that attention may he fixed
upon It,
Ihc fact is that those who have
iiXcd war freight rates have taken the
most effective means I'm their power to
he1"ht the armies engaged against Ger
many. When they realize this we may,
take 1t 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
Il know, and you know, what re-
sponse to this great challenge of duty
| and of opportunity the nation will cx-
! pcct Of you; and know what re-
| SponSe 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.
II am dealing with the matter thus
|
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 move in perfectly clear
air Of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
Sand there is something more that
we must add to our thinking. The
public is now as much part Of the
! government rs are the army and navy
themselves; the whole people in all
their activities are now mobiiZed and
in service for the accomplishment Of
| the nations task In this 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 1t Is lust
as much our duty to sustain the indus
trials of the country with all the in
duStrirs that contribute to its life az
1t Is to sustain our forces in the field
and on the sea.
Think Not Of Self.
"We must make prices to the pub
lie the same as the prices to the gov
crnmcnt. Prices mean the same thing
everywhere now. They mean the etfl-
cheney or the inctlciency of the ma
ton, whether 1t is the government that
pays them or not. They mean victory
or defeat. They mean that America
will win her place once for all among
the foremost free nations Of the world
or that she will sink to defeat and be-
come Il sccond-ratc power alike in
thought and in action. This Is day
Of her reckoning and every man among
us must personally face that reckoning
along with hpr