Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-05

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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 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, and care nothing at all for
what is being said and believed in the
| Hobbies of Washington hotels. where
! the atmosphere seems to make II posi-
/ BILE 10 believe what is believed nowhere
else.
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 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 resoiute purpose to win
the war, but are ready and willing to
bear any burden and undergo any sac
/ riiice that it may he 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 until the enemy
shall be beaten and brought to a recl-
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 10
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 muni-
tiuns program or our program for max
ing millions of men ready. These 9TH
ers are not programs, indeed. but mere
plans upon paper, unless there is to be
an unquestionable supply of money.
"That is the situation, and il 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.
lions will go to those who think
least of it. To those who go to the con-
stituencies without explanation or ex-
cuse, with plain record of duty filth
fully and disnterestedly performed
Z !, for one. am always confident that the
people of this country will give a 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.
/ There is no danger of deceit now.
An intense and pitiless light beats
upon every man and every action in
/ this tragic plot Of war that is now
upon the stage. If lobbyists hurry to
! Washington TO attempt to turn what
you do in the matter Of taxation to
/ thei~ 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 cannot be got Mt by the restraints
I of conscience and love of country can
be got at by taxation. There is such
! prnfiteering now and the information
with regard to it is available and in
I disputahle.
/ I'VE need not be afraid to tax them,
If we lay taxes justly. They know that
/ the war must be paid for, and that II
is they who must pay for It. and If the
/ burden is justly distributed and the
sacrifice made common sacrifice from
which none escapes who can bear II
at all, they will carry it cheerfully and
with a sort Of solemn pride.
Facing Supreme Duty.
81 have always been proud 10 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 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
portunity has come, rejoice 10 spend
and 70 be spent through long night
Of suffering and terror In order that
they and men everywhere may see the
dawn Of day Of righteousness and