Arizona republican., 1918-08-15
DanqerousIy Frank Talk


 Thomas Adams a citizen of the Yuma Valley doubt thinks he is also an American citizen He has all the privileges American and he born an American but he has degenerated something else. He is q farmer land and grower of long staple cotton He is though. owner of Liberty Bonds
 When the other day. he was approached on the subject he said. My money and my opinions are my own. have right to do what I please and think what please I own no Liberty Bonds and no War Savings Stamps and positively will not buy any Id be fool to borrow money from the bank at 10 per cent and lend it to the government at , just to be given away to France and England that we ought to be fighting against.
 We do not know whether MT. Adams is at large vet or not but there are in the federal peniten taries serving fifteen or twenty year terms for talking less freely and frankly than MT. Adams is reported to have done.
 His information regarding his rights and his rela ton his country is far from accurate or complete He would be surprised many others would be to know how few rights one really has. We all have many privileges exercised by sufferance. But in herent rights many. People speak of the right to vote for instance when there is such right. In certain circumstances have not the right to live We have not the right to do anything to the harm of our neighbors and have not the right to anything that should be done for the good of the community at large.
 In society governed by laws there almost no tights all That is why anarchists against laws They want what they call rights and especially the light to do as they please.
 No man has right to do with his money he pcases He has right to express any opinion he may entertain. He has right think he pleases
 
 doing he thinks and that often leads to the jail the gallows the firing squad.
 The government cannot compel men to buy Liber- ty Bonds War Savings Stamps, but it and frequently punish people for interfering with campaigns for the sale of bonds and stamps But what meant more particularly to show is that one not detach himself from society easily he may think he can He rid himself of his obligations 10 society and the government.
 Nor is MT. Adams saving much money by framing from buying Liberty Bonds he thinks he is IT this government could financed this wholly by the current savings of the people it would not have been necessary tax the people. That of could have been done but if all the people had shown disposition to buy bonds, the government would have taxed the people less.
 While all Liberty Loan campaigns cessful in the sense that the minimum and something more subscribed the governments expectations in none of the campaigns fully realized We can believe that if the maximum amount had been sub scribed, the government would have believed that it could get along with the proceeds of the bonds added the income the ssprofts tax and the profits tax. which should have been levied anyhow. Then would have been saved much taxation that has fallen upon Mir. Adams along with all the rest of us.
 The amount of taxes Mir. Adams has paid under the present revenue law and the much more he will pay under the pending will be a great deal more than the difference between per and 10 per cent interest on any amount of bonds he could afford to purchase
 Mir Adams is neither a good citizen nor a good business man. It may not be possible to make good business man out of poor but it is possible to make a bad citizen like good