The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-03-29

We talk of the sacrifice The men who are drafted are the ones who are called upon to make the supreme sac rifice. I say again. it is not sacrifice in that sense of the word when we tax men in such a way that they will cn- joy more returns during the war tran ly be sacrifice if they gave scme- thing which they enjoyed in times Of peace. So 1 agreed with otter Sena- tors on the floor here who have sai l that, as a matter of principle if not of expediency, it would not be asking to much for every concern in the coun .ry to be willing to give the country every dollar of excess or war profits it earns. 1 also agreed in the thought that no man ought to want to emerge from this war-a war in which the vital interests of this country are at stake, a war in which we felt it neces- sary to make the sacrifices that we
 
 are going to make-financially bene- fitted from it, if his country needs that which he profits. No one proposes to take all, even of the excess profits that is to say, the profits he makes because of and which he would not make but for the war--because we 4o 1,i, I,i fN pand with if necessary; but l repeat that if necessary he ought to be will by the man in the trench or on the sea.
 We are talking here of war profits. sWe all know that this war has given a great impetus to business; there is not any question that money is being made by the great corporations and by the people generally far in excess of what they would have made if we had had no war. Consequently, in a sense. if they are permitted to enjoy this favor, they will merely be reaping the fruits and the grain that are going to grow on the graves of our own soldiers that we are sending across the sea-the fruit and grain grown in the national cemeteries in which our men are going to be buried; and I say I have sufficient confidence in the Americanism of these men, even they own millions and millions of dollars, to believe that they will put themselves in any position where they will c.,.---- right to keep tnd will feel right in keeping the money that and the stress of their country in the time of war. I do not say that it is wrong for men to make money dur ing the war, but I do say it is wrong for them to want to keep it all if their country needs it for it's defense. It is only fair and just that they should contribute their share.
 Law Should Hit All Alike
 It may be that we have not gotten over the old superstition that life is cheap and money is sacred. We who voted for the declaration of war and believed it was necessary, and who now know better than ever that it was necessary; we who voted for the draft law knew what it meant. And when arguments were made upon the floor that we had no right to take our men and compel them to sacrifice their lives, what did we say about it: We said that it was necessary to do it, and being necessary, that ended the arument. We said that if we did not have the power to draft men, the Ma ton would not have the power to de- fend itself; that we were justified in passing the draft law because we must have men to fight the battles for the union. There was not any sug :estion .aade then that these men would not respond; that they would not go out for their country and fight in Europe even for $360 year. It was not said that these men would not give up a life of ease, perhaps, even lives of lux ury and incomes for in excess of $360 0 year to go and fight in Europe, and yet we are dealing with human lives and happiness when we did that. Now it comes to raising money, which also is necessary for the pu. llos, of fight ing this war.
 Without it we cannot send our sol diers and sailors across the seas; with out it we cannot provision them; we cannot mmition them; we cannot arm them; we cannot take care of them But when we say we must back up and support and arm these men whom we have drafted, by money taken from