The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30

purchase of bonds with any sort of
confidence or knowledge of their own
affairs If they do not know what
taxes they are to pay and what econ
omies and adjustments of their bust
ness they must effect? l cannot as
sure the country of n successful ad-
ministration of the treasury in 1918
If the question of further taxation is
to be left undecided until 1919.
Only Thought Now Is Win the War.
THE consideration that dominates
every other now. and makes every 9th
er 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 it.
World Facing Many New Problems.
Il am advising you to act upon this
matter of taxation now, gentlemen,
not because l 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 obligations
involved as / can, but because there is
a certain solemn satisfaction in shar-
ing with you the responsibilities Of
such time.
THE world never stood in such case
before. Men never before had so clear
or so moving a vision of duty. l know
that you will begrudge the work to be
done here by us no more than the men
begrudge us theirs who lie In the
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There Is stimulating comradeship
knitting us all together. And this task
to which / invite your immediate con-
sideration will be performed under IA
vorable influences if we will look to
what the country is thinking and ex-
pecting,
United in War Purpose.
"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? l 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
the war, but are ready and willing to-
bear any burden and undergo any sac
ritice that it may be necessary for
them to bear In order to win 1t.
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
after regiment, thousand after thou
sand, to join them until the enemy
shall be beaten and brought to a reck'
oning with mankind.
No Pause or lntermission.
There can be no pause or intermis.
sion. The great enterprise must, on
the contrary, be pushed with greater
energy. The volume of our might must
steadily and rapidly be augmented I'M
til there can be no question of resist
ing II. If that is to be accomplished
gentlemen. money must sustain 1t to
the utmost. Our financial program
must no more be left in doubt or suf-
gram or our ship program or our NUM-
lions program or our program for max
! ing millions of men ready.
THAT is the situation, and 1t is the
situation which creates the duty, no
choice or preference of ours. There
| We must meet It without selhshness
or fear Of consequences.
Politics Adjourned In War Crisis
politics is adjourned. The cleo
tons will go to those who think
! least Of It, To those who go to the CON
stituencies without explanation or ex-
cuse, with plain record of duty faith
fully and disnterestedly 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 con-
ceal them.
ave need not be afraid to tax them,
If we lay taxes justly. They know that
the war must be paid for, and that it
Is they who must pay for it, and if the
burden is justly distributed and the
sacrifice made n common sacrifice from
which none escapes who can bear it
Mt all, they will carry It cheerfulIy and
with a sort of solemn pride.
Facing Supreme Duty.
81 have always been proud 10 be an
American, and was never more proud
than now, when all that we have fore
seen about our people Is coming true.
The great days have come when the
only thing that they ask for or admire
is duty, greatly and adequately done;
when the only wish for America Is that
she may share freedom she enjoys;
when great, compelling sympathy
wells up in their hearts for men every
where who suffer and are oppressed
and when they see at last the high
uses for which their wealth has been
piled up and their mighty power aCcu-
INFLATED, counting neither blood nor
treasure now that the final day of OPP
portunity 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 day Of righteousness and
justice and peace. Shall we grow
weary when they bid us act?"
Cruel.