The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-05-31

must steadily and rapidly be aug
mentad until there can be no ques-
ton of resisting it. If that is to be
accomplished, gentlemen, money
must sustain it to the utmost. Our
financial program must no more be i
left in doubt or suffered to lag than
our ordnance program or our ship
| program or our munitions program
Or our program for making millions
Of men ready. These eth rs are not
programs, indeed, but mere plans
upon paper, unless their is to be an
unquestionable supply of money.
LONG WAY
TO MEET DUTY
"That is the situation, and it IS
| the situation which creates the duty,
no choiqa or preference of ours.
| There is only one way to meet that
duty. We must meet it without sell
I dshness or. fear of cons quences.
Politics have adjourned. The cleo
ions will go to those who think
least of it; to those who go to the
constitu ncies without explanation
or excuses. with a plain record of
duty faithfully and disinterestedly
| performed. l, for one, am always
confident that the p opie Of this
country will give a just verdict upon
the service of the men who act foI
hem when thu facts are such tina.
no man can disguise Or conceal them
There is no danger Of deceit now
An intense and pitiless light b. ats
upon every man and every action II
ibis tragic plot of war that is nov
upon the stage. Lobbyists hurry to
Washington to attempt to turn what
you do in the matter of taxation to
their protection Or advantage. TIL
light will beat also upon them. There
Is abundant fuel for the light in the
records of the treasury with y gard
to profits of every sort. The prof.
/ teering that can not be got at by
he restraints of conscR nee and love
/, of country can be got at by taxation.
There is such profitenring now and
( the information with regard to it is
available and indisputable.
: MUST BEAR
; THE BURDEN
!. 81 am advising you to act upon
J. this matt of taxation now, gentle
men, not because | do not know that
you can see and interpret the facts
t and the duty they impose just as
( well and with as ciear a perception
of the obligations involved as | can
4 but because there is a certain solemn
t satisfaction in sharing with you the
$ responsibility of such time. The
E world never stood in such place be
d lore. Men never before had so cle al
I or SO moving a vision Of duty. /
know that you will begrudge the
: work to be done h re by us no more
n than the men begrudge us theirs who
G lie in the trenches and sally forth tC
8 In ir death. There as a stimulating
q comradeship knitting us all together
/ And this task to which / invite YOU
Il immediate consideration will be per
e formed under favorable influences i
: We will loC.z to what the country i.
I linking and expecting and care
q nothing at all for what is being sale
e and believed in the Hobbies of Wash
6 ngton hotels. where the atmospher,
q seems to make it possible to believ,
Il what is believed nowhere else.
It MUST PAY
i FOR WAR
e slave you not felt the spirit o
the nation rise and it's thought be
come single and common though
since these eventful days came il
which we have been sending on
II boys to the other side? / think yOl
u must have read that thought, as
e do, to mean this, that the people O
+" NAS NOuUtI are IlOt O&iiy
II he resolute purpose to win this war
u out are ready and willing to bear an
n BURDEN and undergo any sacrific
St that it may be necessary for then
= bear in order to win it. We nee
% not be afraid to tax them, if we la
70 faxes Justly. They know that tn
y war must be paid for, and that it /
e hey who must pay for it, and if tn
s burden is justly distributed and tn
Is sacrifice made common sacrific
L from which none escape who ca
10 bear it at all, they VIII carry
y :heerfully and with a sort of sol
) mn pride. have always bee
proud to be an American and wa
a never more proud than now, whel
le all that we have said and all tina
u we have foreseen about our peepl