Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31

know where the money is to cona
from. which is to take them up? Ana
how are investors to approach the
purchase of bonds with any sort az
confidence or knowledge of their own
affairs if they do not know wbat
taxes they are to pay and what econ.
omies and adjustments of their bust.
ness they must effect? I cannos as.
sure the country of successful sd-
ministration of the treasury in 1919
if the question of further taxation is
to be left undecided until 1919.
Only Thought Now is Win the War
"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 it.
World Facing Many New Problems.
Il am advising you to act upon this
matter of taxation now, gentlemen.
not because / do not know that Won
can see and interpret the facts and the
duty they impose just as well and with
as clear perception of the obligations
involved as can, but because there is
certain solemn satisfaction in shar-
ing with you the responsibilities of
such time.
1.-The world never stood in such case
before. Men never before had so clear
or so moving 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 invite your immediate CON
sideratlon 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 its thought become a
single and common thought since these
eventful days cane ii which we have
been sending our boys to the other
side? / 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
bear any burden and undergo any sac
rifice that it may be necessary for
them to bear In order to win it.
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 unit the enemy
shall be beaten and brought to reck-
oning with mankind.
No Pause or lntermission.
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 un-
til there can be no question of resist
Ing 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 suf-
| fered to lag than our ordnance pro-
gram or our ship program or our NUM-
lions 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 selfishness
| or fear of consequences.
Politics Adjourned in War Crisis.
Politics is adjourned. The cleo
tions will go to those who think
least of 1t. To those who 90 to the con-
stituencies without explanation or ex-
cuse, with plain record of duty filth B
fully and disinterestedly performed,
I, for one. am always confident that the /
/ people of this country viii give just 4
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.
ave need not be afraid to tax them
if we lay taxes justly They know that h
the war must be paid for, and that u
is they who must pay for it, and If the 4
burden is justly distributed and the
sacrifice made common sacrifice from
which none escapes who can bear 4
at all, they will carry it cheerfully and
with sort of solemn pride.
Facing Supreme Duty.
Il 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 ShaI
she may share freedom she ENJOYS
when great, compelling sympathy
wells up in their hearts for men every,
where who suffer and are oppressea
and when they see at last the higD
uses for which their wealth has been
piled up and their mighty power aecu'
INFLATED, counting neither blood nOi