Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-30
WILSON'S SPEECH.
Continual from,

gentlemen, money must. sustain 1t to
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
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.
Hess there is to be unquestionable sup
| ply OF money.
When he had concluded his address
the president Unexpectedly made a
hdef extemVoraneous statements, in
which he said that just as he was
ileaving the White House for the cap.
itol ne heard that the new German
drive apparently had just begun and
that 1t 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 a plain
record of duty faithfully and disin-
terestedly performed |, 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 conceal them.
There is no danger of deceit now.
inf
upon every man and every action in
this tragic plot of war that is now
upon the stage. IL 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
in 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 we'll and with
as clear perception of the obliga-
lions involved as I can, but because
there is 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 a
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 ii
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 ii possible to believe
" hat is believed nowhere else.
People Ready for Burden.
Have you not felt the spirit of the
nation rise and its thought become a
single and common thought since
Ithese eventful days came in which we
have been sending our boys to the
other side? I think you must read
that thought, as do, to mean this. that
the people of this country are not
| only united in the resolute purpose
to win this war, but are ready and
willing to bear any burden and under
| 30 any sacrifice that ii may be ne
cessary for them to bear ii order to
win it. We need not be afraid to tax
them Il ne lag say;, justly. they
know that the war must be paid for
and that it is they who must pay for
lit and II the burden is justly distrib-
luted and the sacrifice made common
sacrifice from which none escapes
who can bear 1t at all, they will carry
| 1t cheerfuliy and with sort Of sol
emn pride,
/ Proud 70 be American.
have always been proud to be an
1 American. and was never more proud
than now, when all that we have said
and all that we. have fOreseen about
lour people is coming true The great
days have come when the only thing
that they ask for on admire Is duty,
lgreatly and adequately done; when
/ their only wish for America is that
she may share freedom she enjoys:
when q great, compelling sympathy
Iswells UP In their hearts for nen
everywhere who suffer and are an
i pressed and when they see at last the
4 high uses for which their wealth has
I been piled up and their mighty power
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