Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-12

must be bribcd to make your contri-
button. a contribution that costs you
neither drop of blood nor "A tear,
when tho whole world Is in ,rav,l.
and men everywhere depend upon and
call on you to- bring them out Of
bondage and make the world 1T
place TO live in again amidst peace
and Justice? DO they mean that you
VIII exact price to drive a bargain
with the men who are enduring the
agony OF this war on the battle fed,
In the trenches. amidst the lurking
dangers of the sea. or with the be-
reaved women and the pitiful children.
before you Will come forward to do
your duty and give some part of your
ne. In easy peaceful fashion for the
things we arc lighting for. the things
we have pledged our fortunes. our lives.
our sacred honor to vindicate and de-
iend--iiberty and justice and fair deal
ing and the peace of nations? or
course you Will not
1T is inccnceivable. Your patriotism
is OF the same self-denying stuff as
the patriotism of the men dead or
manned on the fields of France, or else
1t Is not patriotism at all. Let us
patriotism in the same sentence. but
race facts and meet them. Let us
do so under business. but not I'm the
mast OF mist. Many a grievous bur-
den OF taxation will be laid on this
"a'ioh. In this generation and in the
next. to pay for this war; let us see
20 IL that Tor every dollar that Is
taken from the peoples pockets IL
snail De possible to obtain a dollars
worth of the sound stuffs they need
lNsUPERABLE OBJECTIONS IN
WAY OF CARRYING ON WAR
Let me turn for a moman, TO the
shipowners of the United States and
other ocean carriers whose example thew
nave followed. and ask them IL ,hov
realize what obstacles, what almos. in
superable obstacles. they have been
putting In the way of the successful
prosecution Of this war by the ocean
freight rates they have been exactinr
They can do everything that high
freight charges can do to make the
war failure, to make II impossible
do not say that they realize this or
intend 1t. 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 a period where they have
no proper place. l am not questioning
motives: I am merely stating a fact.
and stating it 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
ennaged against Germany. When they
realize this we may, I take il for
granted. count upon them to recon
slider the whole matter. 1t is high
time. Their extra hazards are covered
by war-risk insurance.
Il know, and you know, what re-
Spouse to this great challenge of duty
and of opportunity the nation will exL
pect OF you: and I know what response
you will make. Those who do not re-
spond. 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 law-for the law must. Of
course, command these things. / am
dealing with the matter thus publicly
and frankly. not because I 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 another we
may move in a perfectly clear air of
mutual understanding.
PUBLIC NOW ABSOLUTE
PART OF GOVERNMENT
"And there is something more that
we must add to our thinking. The
public is now as much a part of the
government as are the army and navy