Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-28

are crowding faster and faster to the
ports of France and England with
regiment after regiment, thousand
after thousand, to join them until the
enemy shall be beaten and brought to
a reckoning with mankind.
NO PAUSE IN WAR
"There can be no pause or inter
mission. The great enterprise must,
on the contrary, be pushed with
greater energy. The volume OF our
might must steadily and rapidly be
augm ented until there can be no
question Of resisting it. If that is to
be accomplished, gentlemen, money
must sustain it to the utmost. Our
financial program must no more be
left in doubt or suffered to lag than
our ordnance program or our ship
program or our munitions program or
our program for making millions Of
men ready. These others are not
programs, indeed, but mere plans up
on paper, unless there is to be un'
questionable supply Of money.
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 60 to
those who think least of 1t, to those
who go to the constituencies without
explanation or excuses, with plain
record OF duty faithfully and disinter-
estedly performed.
WARNS LOBBYISTS AWAY
81, for one, am always confident that
the people Of this country will give a
just verdict upon the service OF the
mem who act for them when the facts
are such that no man can disguise or
conceal them. There IA no danger Of
deceit now, An intense and pitiless
light beats on every man and every
action in this tragic plot Of war that
is now upon the stage.
IF lobbyists hurry to Washington
to attempt to turn what we do in the
matter OF taxation to their protection
or advantage, the light will beat also
on them. There Is abundant fuel for
the light in the records of the treasury
with regards to profits of every sort.
PRoFITEERlNG MUST CEASE
'The profiteering that cannot be got
at by the restraints of conscience and
love Of country can be got at by taxa
ton. There is such profiteering now
and the information with regard to it
is available and indisputable.
II am. advising you to act upon this
matter of taxation now, gentlemen,
not because I do not know that you
can see and interpret the fact and the
duty they impose just as we'll and with
as clear perception Of the obligations
involved as can, but because there Is
a certain solemn satisfaction in shar-
ing with you the responsibilities of
such a time. The world never stood
in such case before. Men never be.
fore had such clear or so moving a
vision of duty.
II know that you will begrudge the
work to be done here by us no more
than the men begrude us theirs who
lie in the trenches and sally forth to
their death.
LAUDs NATIONAL SPIRIT
There Is stimulating comrade-
ship knitting us all together. And
this task to which I invite your imme-
date consideration will be performed
under favorable influences IL we will
look to what the country is thinking
and expecting and care nothing at all
for what Is being said and believed IN
the lobbies of Washington hotels,
where the atmosphere seems to make
it possible to believe what is believed
nowhere ese.
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? 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 undergo any sac
rifice that 1t may be necessary for
them to bear in order to win 1t.
eve need not be afraid to tax them
If we lay tax Justly. They know tina.
the war must be paid for and that It
is they who must pay for 1t, and If the
burden is justly distributed and the
sacrifice made q common sacrifice
from which none shrinks who can
bear it at all, they will carry it cheer
fully and with a sort Of solemn pride
PROUD OF AMERICANIsM
II have always been proud to he ar
and was never more proud
than now, when all that we have said
and all that we have foreseen 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
their only wish for America is tina.
she may share the freedom she enjoys,
when great, compelling sympathy
swells up in their hearts for men
everywhere who suffer and are or
pressed and when they see at lest the
high uses for. which their wealth has
ben piled up and their mighty power
and, counting neither
blood nor treasure now that the final
day Of opportunity has come, rejoice
to spend and to be spent through 4
long night Of suffering and terror ir
order that they and men everywhere