The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27

stood in such a case before. Men
never before had so clear or so NOV
ing vision of duty. l know that you
will begrudge the work to be done
here by us no more than the men pc
grudge us theirs who lie IN the
trenches and sally forth to their
death. There is stimulating COM
'radeship knitting us all together. AND
this task to which invite your i'm
mediate consideration will be perform
ed under favorable influences If we
will look to what the country is think
ing and expecting and care nothing at
all for what is being said and believed
in the Hobbies of Washington notes,
where the atmosphere seems to make
it possible to believe what is believed
nowhere else
Have you not felt the spirit Of the
nation rise and its thought become a
single and common thought since
these eventfuI days in which we have
been sending our boys to the other
side? l think you must read that
thought as l 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 ana
undergo any sacrifice that it may be
necessary for them to bear in order
to win ii. We need not be afraid TO
tax them if we lay taxes justly. They
know the war must be paid for ana
that it is they who must pay for 1t
and if the burden is justly distribut-
ed and the sacrifice made common
sacrifice from which none escapes
who can bear it all, they will carry II
cheerfully and with a sort OF solemn
pride. l always have been proud TO
be an American and was never more
proud than now when all that we nave
said and that all we have foreseen
about our people is coming true. Ine
great days have come when the only
thing that they ask for or admire is
duty greatly and adequately done;
when their only wish for America is
that she may share the freedom she
enjoys; when a great, compelling
wells up in their hearts
for men everywhere who suffer and
are oppressed; and when they see at
least the high uses for which their
wealth has been piled up and their
mighty power accumulated and
counting neither blood nor treasure
now that their final day of opportun-
ity has come. rejoice to spend to be
spent through a long night of suffer
ing and terror in order that they and
men everywhere may see the dawn OF
a day of righteousness and justice
and peace.
Shall we grow weary when they
bid us act?
May I add this word. gentlemen:
Just as l was leaving the white
house. | was told that the expected
drive on the western front had ap-
parently begun You can realize how
that solemnized my feeling as
came to you and how it seemed to
strengthen the purpose which l have
tried to express in these lines.
/ have admired the work of this
session. The way in which the two
houses of congress have co-operated
with the executive has been generous
and admirable and it is not in any
spirit OF suggesting duty neglected,
but only to remind you of the COM
mon cause and the common obligation
that l have ventured to come to you
today.
Sixty and Forty Percent.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-President
Wilson's war finance policy contem-
plates raising forty percent of new
revenues by taxation and sixty per-
cent by bonds, it was learned today
A memorandum, written by the
president and given Senator Simmons
and Representative Kitchin suggested
his proportion of bonds and taxes to
finance the war.
On this basis the new tax bill, ex-
pected to raise four billion more than
The present one, would augur $4,000
lOO, 900 bond Issue in the fall.