The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-06-07
The President to Congress

President Wilson appeared before
Congress a few days ago and asked
them TO remain in session long enough
TO enact new tax laws. providing for
further assessments on excess profits
and incomes. Following is portion OF
the able address:
"The consideration that dominates
every other now. and makes every
other 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 IL. 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 af
ter regiment, thousand after thousand.
to join them until the enemy shall be
beaten and brought 10 a reckoning
with mankind. There can be no pause
or intermission. The great enterprise
must on the contrary be pushed with
greater energy. The volume OF our
might must steadily and rapidly be
augmented until there can be no ques-
ton OF resisting It. II that is to be
accomplished. gentlemen. money must
sustain it to the utmost Our finan
cial programme must no more be left
in doubt or suffered TO lag than our
ordnance programme or our ship pro-
gramme or our munitions programme
for making millions OF men ready.
These others are not programmes. in
deed, but mere plans upon papers. I'M
less there Is To be an unquestionable
supply of money,
~ st.aN fttsa
work 10 be done here by us no more
than the men begrudge US theirs who
lie in the trenches and sally forth 10
their death, There is stimulating
comradeship uniting us all together.
This task 10 which invite your imme-
date consideration viii be performed
under favorable Influences If we viii
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 atmosphere seems to make
IL is possible to believe What is believed
nowhere else.
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
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 20 win this war.
but are ready and willing TO bear any
burden and undergo any sacrifice that
Il may be necessary for them to bear
in order to win f.. We not need be
afraid TO tax them. IL we lay taxes
Justly. They know that the war must
be paid for and that IL is they who
must pay for il and IL the burden is
Justly distributed and the sacrifice
made a common sacrifice from which
none escapes. who can bear 1t at all.
they will carry IL cheerfully and with
sort OF solemn pride.
have always been proud to be an
American and was never more proud
than now. when all that we have said
and all that we have toreseen about
our people Is coming true. The great
DAYS have come when the only thing
that they ask for or admire is duty.
bravely and adequately done; when
their only wish for America is that she
may share the freedom she enjoys;
when a great. compelling sympathy
wells up in their hearts for men ev-
erywhere who suffer and are oppress-
ed and when they see at last the high
uses for which their wealth has piled
up. and their mighty power, accumu-
lated and counting neither blood nor
treasure now that their final day OF
opportunity has come. rejoice to spend
and to be spent through long night OF
suffering and terror in order that they
and men everywhere may see the dawn
OF a day OF righteousness and justice
and peace. Shall we grow weary when
they bid us act2
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 is adj
iourned. The election will go to those
who think least OF IL; to those who go
10 the constituencies without explain
atoms or excuses. with a plain record
OF duty. faithfully and disinterestedly
performed. I. for one, am always con-
| fident 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 dis
guise or conceal 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 at
| tempt to turn what you do in matter Of
taxation to their protection or adyant-
age. the light will beat also upon them
| There is abundant fuel for the light
in the records of the Treasury with re-
CARDS to profits OF every sort. The
profiteering that cannot be got at by
the restraints of conscience AMI love
OF country can be got at by taxatio1-
There is such profiteering now ana III
information with regard to IL is avail
able and indisputable"