Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-05


| affairs If they do not know what
taxes they are to pay and what econ
omies and adjustments of their bust
ness they must effect? / cannot as
sure the country of successful ad-
ministration of the treasury in 1918
| If the question of further taxation is
to be left undecided until 1919.
Only Thought Now Is Win the War.
1.-THE consideration that dominates
every other now, and makes every 9TH
er seem trivial and negligible, is the
winning of the war. We are not only
in the midst of the war; we are at
the very peak and crisis of 1t
World Facing Many New Problems.
ST 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 l can, but because there Is
certain solemn satisfaction in shar-
ing with you the responsibilities OF
such time.
'The world never stood in such case.
| before. Men never before had so clear
| or so moving a vision of duty. | 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 l invite your immediate con-
to which l invite your immediate con-
sideration will be performed under IA
vorable influences If we will look to
what the country is thinking and ex-
pecting,
United in War Purpose.
'Have you not felt the spirit of the
nation rise and it's thought become
single and common thought since these
eventful days came in which we have
been sending our boys to the other
side? l think you must read that
thought, as do, to mean this, that the
people of this country are not only
united in the resolute purpose to win
the war, but are ready and willing to
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rifice that it may be necessary for
them to bear in order to win 1t.
Hundreds of thousands of our men,
carrying our hearts with them and our
fortunes, are in the field, and ships are
crowding faster and faster to the ports
of France and England with regiment
after regiment, thousand after thou
sand to join them until the enemy
shall be beaten and brought to reck-
oning with mankind.
No Pause or Intermission.
"There can be no pause or intermis-
| sion. The great enterprise must, on
the contrary, be pushed with greater
energy The volume of our might must
steadily and rapidly be augmented I'M
til there can be no question of resist
| ing it. If that is to be accomplished
gentlemen, money must sustain 1t TO
the utmost. Our financial program
must no more be left in doubt or sut'
fered to lag than our ordnance pro-
gram or our ship program or our NUM-
tions program or our program for max
ing millions of men ready.
'That is the situation, and it is the
situation which creates the duty, no
choice or preference of ours. There
is only one way to meet that duty.
We must meet it without selflshness
or fear of consequences.
Politics Adjourned in War Crisis.
politics is adjourned. The cleo
lions will go to those who think
least of it. To those who go to the con-
stituencies without explanation or ex-
cuse, with a plain record Of duty faith
fully and disinterestedly performed,
/. for one, am always confident that the
people of this country will give just
verdict upon the service OF the men
who act for them when the facts are
such that no man can disguise or con-
ceal them.
"We need not be afraid to tax them,
if we lay taxes justly. They know that
the war must be paid for, and that it
is they who must pay for it, and II the
burden is justly distributed and the
sacrifice made common sacrifice from
which none escapes who can bear It
at all, they will carry it cheerfully and
| with a sort of solemn pride.
Facing Supreme Duty.
81 have always been proud to be an
American, and was never more proud
than now, when all that we have fore
seen about our people is coming true.
The great days have come when the
only thing that they ask for or admire
is duty, greatly and adequately done
when the only wish for America is that
she may share freedom she enjoys
when a great, compelling sympathy
wells up in their hearts for men every
where who suffer and are oppressed
and when they see at last the high
uses for which their wealth has been
piled up and their mighty power accu-
INFLATED, counting neither blood nor
treasure now that the final day of OPP