New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-27

IL, injurious or thousands OIL 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 thou
sand after thousand, to join them un-
til the enemy shall be beaten and
brought to reckoning with man
kind. There can be no pause or in
PERMISSION. The great enterprise
must on the contrary, be pushed with
greater and greater energy. The vol
ume Of our might must steadily and
rapidly be augmented until there can
be no question of resisting it. If that
is to be accomplished gentlemen,
money must sustain it to the utmost.
our financial program must no more
be left in doubt or suffered to lag
than our ordnance program or our
snip program or our munitions pro-
gram or our program for making mil
lions Of men ready. These others are
not programs, indeed, but mere plans
upon paper, unless there is to be an
unquestionable supply Of money.
THAT is the situation, and 1t 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 selfishness or
fear of consequences. Politics is ad-
jOurned. The elections will go to those
who think least of it; to those who go
to the constituencies without explana-
tons or excuses, with a plain record
| of duty faithfully and disinterestedly
performed. l, for one, am always con-
fident that the people of the country
will give just verdict upon the SerV-
ice Of the men who act for them when
ho oat
disguise or conceal them. There is no
danger of deceit now. An intense and
pitiless light beats upon every man
aud every action in this tragic plot
of war that is now upon the stage. If
lobbyists hurry to Washington to at
tempt to turn what you do in the mat
| ter of taxation to their protection or
| advantage. the light will beat also
upon them. There is abundant fuel
for the light in the records of the
treasury with regard to profits of
every sort. The profiteering that can
not be got at by the restraints Of
conscience and love of country can be
got at by taxation. There is such
! prof1teering now and the information
with regard to it is available and in
! disputable
IT am advising you to act upon this
| matter of taxation now, gentlemen
! not because I do not know that you
| can see and interpret the facts and the
| duty they impose just as we'll and with
as clear a perception of the obliga-
| tons involved as I can but because
| there is a certain solemn satisfaction
| in sharing with you the responsible
| ties Of such a time. The world never
| stood in such case before. Men never
| before had 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 comra deship knitting us
| all together. And this task to which
invite your immediate considera-
| ton will be performed under favor
| able influences if we will look to what
| the country is thinking and expecting
| and care nothing at all for what is
| being said and believed in the Hobbies
| Of Washington hotels, where the at
| mosphere seems to make it possible to
| believe what is believed nowhere else.
Have YOU not felt the spirit Of the
national 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? l think you must head that
| thought, as 1 do, to mean this, that
the people Of this country are not only
united in the resolute purpose to win
! this war, but are ready and willing to
| bear any burden and undergo any
! sacrifice that it may be necessary for
| them to bear in order to win. We
| need not be afraid to tax them, if we
| lay taxes justly. They know that the
war must be paid for, that 1t is they
! who must pay for it, and if the bur
| den is Justly distributed and the sacri-
| flee made a common sacrifice from
| which none ESCAPES who can bear it