The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-03-29


 country; they will continue to help win this war.
 No Such Profits In Peace Times l have not as yet heard any man say that he did not want to pay. All have heard men say is that they did not want to be taxed in a way to ruin them. Nobody wants to ruin any business; nobody wants to dry up the spring ot it source. It would be the height of folly to do any such thing as that; we could not do a more foolish thing than that; but why assume that we are going to dry up the spring when we only want to dig up and drink the overflow from the spring? That is nots drying up the spring at its source. I cannot be made to be- lieve, or, what Is more important, the believe, that business is going to be crippled when it is proposed only to
 
 joyed in the heyday of profit-making before the war, when we give business good measure for what it has usually made, and then, heaped upon top of that, another 50 per cent The people cannot be made to believe, and the manufacturer himself cannot be made to believe, that it will put him out of business. We are only cutting down half of an eNorbitant profit that busi- ness never would have made if we had not declared war and if we had not drafted men to go across the sea to fight the war.
 MT Johnson of South Dakota, here requested to be allowed to have the floor a minute and Senator Husting yields to him.
 MT Johnson-I agree very fully with what the Senator from Wisconsin says When the so-called draft law provided for conscrtption of men was before the Senate I argued then-and I repeat now-that all should have been con- scripted. Then all could have been used in any capacity which the government requires, and it would have entirely done away with the right of any set of men to say, as has been suggested by the Senator from Wisconsin, If you do not allow us to fix the taxes; if you take to much from us, we will quit
 MT President if every man in the United States had been conscripted and been made subject to the call of the government we would not have heard any such talk as that to which the Senator from Wisconsin has refer red. A conscription of all men would have been truly democratic, and l am unable to see how any good citizen could have objected to it. If a man should have been needed to serve his country in any capacity that the gov- ernment might require of him, and it became necessary to call on some of our large corporations to turn out commodities necessary for the welfare of the country, such could have been easily brought about under this plan. It would have been their patriotic duty, and I am sure they would have complied willingly with such a request If not they would have been compelled to comply and would have been placed in the same class in that hespect as drafted men, sent to the front.
 Means Conscription of Money Too
 MT Hustling-Mr. President, I thank the Senator for his interpolation. I agree with him, at least to the extent that every man ought to feel himself conscripted if he is not, in fact, con- scripted. In theory I think every man should have been conscripted. It may be that it would have been impracti- cable to have conscripted every man and every industry because we have not the organization reauy to use such a force wisely, but in so far as we could use such a force wisely every man should be conscripted in the Ma tion's service. We have men here in Washington now who have come here, leaving their homes and business, and are giving their service gratis to the Government l am receiving letters every day from men from my state, men of wealth and standing as wei as from men of humble means, all ready to work for the govo ornment without Fay. There is no equity in the idea that some men are made to fight and die, that other men are made to pay ana die, while others are made to pay only. a,, haI lo