The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-28

edge OF their own anaIrs if they 60
not know what taxes they are to paw
and what economies and adjustments
of their business they must effect?
cannot assure the country Of sue
cessful administration Of the treasury
~ 1918 if the qeustion of further tax
! .' is to be left undecided until
1919
The consideration that dominates
every other now, and makes every
other seem trivial and negligible, is
the winning OF the war.
We are not only i'll the midst of The.
war, we are at the very peak and
crisis Of it, Hundreds of thousands
of our men, carrying our hearts with
them, and fortunes, are i'll the field
and ships are cr"Wding faster and
faster TO ports OF France and England
with regiment after regiment, thou
sand afEer thousand, to join them un
til the enemy shall be beaten and
brought TO il reckoning with mankind
There can be no pause or intermiSSon
The great enterprise must, on the con
trary, be pushed With greater and
greater eneI ~. The volume of on.
might must steadily and rapidly be
augmented until there u be no ques
ton of resisting it. il that is to be
accomplished. gentlemen, money must
sustain il To the utmost. our financial
program must no more he left i'll
doubt or suffered 10 lag than our ord
nance program, or our ship program,
or our munitions program, OF our pro
gram for making millions of men ready
These others are not programs, indeed
but mere plans upon paper, unieS
there is to be an un1ueStiOnahle sup
ply of money.
That is the s:trat"r and it is the
situation which Great the duty, ne
choice or preference OF ours. There
is only one way to meet that duty.
We must meet it without selfiShneSS
or fear of consequences. Politics is
adjourned. The elections will 60 to
those who think least of them: to
those who go to their constituencies
without explanations or excuses, with
plain record of duty faithfully and
disinterestedly performed. l, for one.
am always confident that the people OF
this country will give just verdic
upon the service of the men who acl
for them when the facts are such that
no man can disguise or conceal them.
There is no danger of deceit now.
An intense and pitileSS light beats
upon every man and every action in
this tragic plot Of war that is now
upon the stage, If lobbyists hurry TO
Washington to attempt to turn what
their protection or advantage, the light
will bear also upon them. There is
abundant fuel for the light in the
records of the treasury with regard to
profits of every sort. The protiteer'ng
that cannot be got at by the restraints
of conscience and love of country can
be got at by taxation. There is such
profiteering now and the information
with regsrd to it is available and in
disputable.
| am advising you to act upon this
matter of taxation now, gentlemen
not because | do not know that you
can see and interpret the facts and
the duty they impose just as well.
and with as clear a perception of the
obligations involved, as can, but be-
cause there is a certain solemn satiS>
faction in sharing with you the respon-
sibilitieS of such a time.
The world never stood in such case
before Men never before had so clear
or so moving vision Of duty. l know
that you will begrudge the work To
be done here by us no more than the
men begrudge us theirs who lie in the
trenches and sally forth to their
death.
There is a stimulating comradeship
knitting US all together. And this
task to which I invite your immediate
consideration will be performed under
favorable influences if we will look to
what the country is thinking and ev-
pecting and care nothing at all for
what is being said and believed in
where the atmosphere seems to make
1t possible to believe what is believed
nowhere else
Have YOU not felt the spirit of the
nation rise and its thought become a
single and common thought since these
eventful days came in which we have
been sending our boys to the other
side?
| think you must read that thought
as do, to mean this, to- tie people
of this country are not only limited in
The reSolute purpose to win this war
hut are ready and willing to bear an
harden and undergo any sacrifice thu
Il NAV he necesss ~ for them to bee .
n order TO win it. We need not be
Justly
They know that the war must h"
raid for and that it is they who mus
nav for ii and if the burden is Justly
distributed and the sacrifice made y
common sacrifice from which none
escapes who can bear it at all. thev
will carry it cheerfully and with a
sort of solemn pride.
I have always been proud to be an
American, and was never more prOul
than now. when all that we have sail
and all that we have forseen about
our people is coming true.
The great days have come when the
onlv thing that they ask for or admire
IS duty greatly and adequately done /;
when their only wish for America is
that she may share the freedom she
on toys: when q great. compelling SYM
nathy wells up in their hearts for
men everywhere who suffered, are OPP
pressed and when they see at last the
high uses for which their wealth has
been piled UP and t1eir mighty power
accumulated and counting neither
blood nor treasure. now that their final
day of opportunity has come, rejoice
to spend and to be spent through a
long night of suffering and terror in
order thai thev and men everywhere
may see the dawn Of day OF righte-
BUSINESS and Justice and peace. Shall