Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-07-19

paid, must be bribed, to make your
contribution, a contribution that costs
you neither a drop Of blood nor a 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 fit place to live
in again, amidst peace and justice?
Appeals to Honor.
"Do they mean that you will exact
Il 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
ing for. the things we have pledged
our fortunes. our lives. our sacred hon
or TO vindicate and defend-liberty
ana justice and fair dealing and thu
peace of nations?
"Of course you Will not. 1t is in
conceivable. Your patriotism is of tn
same sef-denying stuff as the pa.
iriotsm Of the men dead or manned
on the fields of France. or else 1t is
not patriotism at all.
Full Dollars Worth.
let rs never 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
he midst Of a mist.
MANY a grlevous 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 ii that for
every dollar that is taken from the
1eoples packets IT shall be possible to
obtain n dollars worth of the sound
stuff they need
Let me turn for n moment to the
hip owners Of the United States and
he other ocean carriers whose eX-
ample they have followed. and ask
them If they realize what obstacles,
What almost insuperable obstacles.
hey have been putting In the way of
the successful prosecution of this war
10y the ocean freight rates they have
been exacfing
Making War a Failure.
They are doing everything that
high freight charges can do to make
the war failure, to make it impos-
Sible.
Il do not say that they realize this
n intend IT, The thing has happened
naturally enough because the CONNER
cial processes which we are content to
see operate in ordinary times have
without sufficient thought been CON
tinued into n period where they have
no proper place.
II am not questioning motives.
am merely stating n fact. and stating
ii in order that attention may be fixed
upon it.
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 II for granted. count upon them
10 reconsider the whole matter. II is
high time. Their extra hazards are
covered by war risk insurance.
Warning Is Sounded.
Il know. and you know. what r.
Sponse TO this creot challenge of dut,
and of npnorunitv the nation will ex
meet of. Won: and | know what re
Spouse vou will make.
CHOSE who do not resnond. VIII,
do not respond in the spirit OF thos,
who have gone TO give their lives fol
MS on bloodv folds far AWAY ma,
safely he left to be dealt with b,
opinion and the law-for the law must
of course. command those things.
IL am dealing with the matter thu.
= publicly and frankly. not because hav,
any doubt or fear as to the result hu
only i'm order that in all our .thinbin,
and In all our dealings with one an
other we may move I'm perfectly clea
air of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
And there is something more tina
we must add TO our thinking. Tn
public is now MS much a part of tn
= government as ale the army and nav,
themselves: the whole people in nj
. their activities are now modified an,