The Pulaskian., 1917-07-20

hpSIdLlOu OI tue WOFlQ.
 T take it for granted that those who argue thus do not stop to think what that means.
 Do they mean that you must be paid, must be bribed. to make your contribution, a contribution that costs you neither drop of blood nor 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 a price drive 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 bereayed women and pitt ful 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 and justice and fair dealing and the peace of nations?
 'tOf course you will not. It is in- conceivable. Your patriotism is of the same self-denying stuff as the pa triotism of the mQn dead or maimed on the fields of France, or else 1t is not patriotism at all.
 Full Dollars Worth.
 ''Let us 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 the midst of mist.
 ''Many a grievous burden of taxa tion will be laid on this nation, in this generation and in the Eext, to pay for this war; let us see to 1t 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 a 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 3 Failure.
 ''They are doing everything that high freight charges can do to make the war a failure, to make it impos- sible.
 q do not say that they realize this or 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 tfnued into a period where they have no proper place.
 'I am not questioning motives. 1 am merely stating a fact, and stating it 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 defeat the armies engaged against Ger many. When they realize this we may, take it for granted, count upon them to reconsider the whole matter It is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war risk insurance.
 Warning Is Sounded.
 1T know, and you know, what re- sponse to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will ex- pect of you; and l 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.
 q am dealing with the matter thus publicly and frankly. not because 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 an other we may move in perfectly clear air of mutual understanding.
 Must Have Same Prices.
 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 themselves; the whole people in all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment of the nations task in this war; 1t Is in such circumstances impossible just ly to distinguish between industrial purchases made by the government and industrial purchases made by the managers of industries, and 1t is just as much our duty to sustain the indus trials of the country with all the in dustries that contribute to Its life as it 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 arnment PricoS moan the same thing