Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-30
WILSON'S SPEECH.
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ithe 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
munitions program, or our program
for making millions of men ready.
These others are not programs, in
deed, but mere plans upon paper, I'm.
less there is to be unquestionable sup
ply of money.
When he had concluded his address
the president Unexpectedly made a
| b1ief extemVoraneons statement in
which he said that just as he was
ileaving the White House for the cap.
itol he heard that the new German
drive apparently had just begun and
that it added to the solemnity of his
conception of the country's duty.
Politics is Adjourned.
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
adjourned, The elections will go to
those who think least of it, to those
who go to the constituencies without
explanation or excuses, with plain
record of duty faithfully and disin-
terestedly performed. /, for one, am
always confident 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 disguise 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 attempt to turn what
you do in the matter of taxation to
their protection or advantage the
light will beat also upon them
There is abundant fuel for the light
i'll the records of the treasury with
regard to profits of every sort. The
profiteering that cannot be got at by
the restraints of conscience and love
OF country can be got at by taxation.
There is such profiteering now and
the information in regard to it is
available and indisputable
Asks Share in Responsibility.
am advising you to act upon this
matter of taxation now, gentlemen,
not because | do not know that you
can see and interpret the facts and the
duty they impose just as well and with
as clear a perception of the obliga-
lions involved as can, but because
there is a certain solemn satisfaction
in sharing with you the responsible
ties of such time. 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 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
| together.
And this task to which invite your
| immediate consideration will be per-
| formed under favorable influences if
we will look to what the country is
| thinking and expecting and care moth
| ing at all for that is being said and
believed in the Hobbies of Washing
ton hotels, where the atmosphere
seems to make it possible to believe
what is believed nowhere else
People Ready for Burden.
Have you not felt the spirit of the
nation rise and its thought become a
isingle and common thought since
these eyentful 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
1.-THE people of this country are not
only united in the resolute purpose
Ito win this war, but are ready and
willing to bear any burden and under
/ go any sacrifice that it may be ne
cessary for them to bear in order to
win it, We need not be afraid to tax
them, II we lay taxes Justly. They
know that the war must be paid for
and that it is they who must pay for
1T and If the burden is justly distrib-
Euted and the sacrifice made common
sacrifice from which none escapes
who can bear it at all. they will carry
lit cheerfully and with sort of sol
emn pride.
Proud to be American.
| have always been proud to be an
4 American. and was never more proud
than now, when all that we have said
and all that we have foreseen about
4 our people is coming true. The great
3tdays have come when the only thing
that they ask for or admire is duty,
4 greatly and adequately done; when
q their only wish for America Is that
i she may share freedom she enjoys:
when a great compelling sympathy
swells up iii theig hfa rtt d soF men
4 everywhere wss,,e 81, lei and are aps
4 pressed and when they see at last the
thigh uses for which their wealth has
been piled up and their lightly power
Z Accumulated and counting neither