New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-05-31

Otner seem Llval q ne8llgiDle, ~
the winning Of the war. We are not
only In the midst Of the war; We are
at the very peak and crisis OF 1t. Hun
dreds of thousands of our men, carry.
ing our hearts with them and our for
tunes 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 .
reckoning with mankind.
There can be no pause or intermis-
sion. The great enterprise must on
the contrary be pushed with greater
and greater energy. The volume OF
our might must steadily and rapidly
be augmented 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 pro-
gram or our program for making mil
lions Of men ready. These others are
not programs, indeed, but mere plans
upon paper. unless there is to be an
unquestionable supply Of money.
THAT is the situation and it is the
situation which creates the duty, no
choice or preference of ours. There
is only one way Ia meet that duty. We
must meet ii without ~selfishness or
fear OF consequence. Politics is adj
jOurned.
War Record to Be Best Endorsement.
Tine elections will 80 to those h
think least OF il; to those who go to
the constituencies without explanation
or excuses, with "A plain record oil duty
faithfully and disinterestedly per-
formed.
Il, for one, am always confident
that the people OF this country will
give a just verdict upon the service
of the men who act or them when
the facts are such that no man can
disguise or conceal them. There Is
no danger of deceit now. An intense
and p%itlless light beats upon every
man and every action in this tragic
plot of war tina is 10 upon the
stage.
IF lobbyists hurry 10 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 ev-
cry sort. The profiteering hat cannot
be got at by the restraints OF con-
science and love OF country can be
got at by taxation. There is such
profitecring now, and the Information
with regard to it is available and in
d%isputable.
Il 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 n
the duty they impose just as well n
with as clear a perception OF the oD-
legations involved as | can, but be-
cause there is a certain solemn salts
faction in sharing with you the re-
spOnsibilities Of such a 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
here by us no more than the men be.
grudge us theirs who lie in the
trenches and sally forth to thei
death. There is a stimulating com.
radeship knitting us all together.
And this task to which l invite
your immediate consideration will be
performed under favorable influences
II We will look to what the country Is
thinking and expecting and care moth.
ing at all for what is being said and
believed in the Hobbies OF Washington
where the atmosphere seems to
make it possible to believe what is be-
lieved nowhere else.
Ready to Bear Burden 6ravely.
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? 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 pur'
pose to win this war, but are ready
and willing to bear any burden ana
undergo any sacrifice that it may be
for them to bear in order
to win 1t.
I'VE need not be afraid to tax them
we lay taxes justly. They know
that the wal must be paid for and that
it is they who must pay for 1t. and II
the burden is justly distributed and
the sacrifice made a common sacrl-
flee from which none escape who can
bear it at all. they will carry 1t cheer
fully and with a sort Of solemn pride.
| have always been proud to be an
and was never more proud
han 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
is duty. greatly and adequately
lone; when the only wish for America
8 that she may share the freedom
she enjoys: when a great, compelling
sympathy wells up in their hearts for
men everywhere who suffer and are
IMPRESSED, and when they see at last
he high uses for which their wealth
has been piled up and their mighty
accumulated and. counting
blood nor treasure, now that
he final day of opportunity has come,
'ejoice TO spend and to be spent
through a long night Of suffering and
error in order that they and men
,verywhere may see the dawn OF a
lay Of righteousness and justice and
,eace.
Shall we grow weary when they
lid us act?"
When he concluded his address the
President Unexpectedly made a brief
'xtemporaneous statement. In which
lie said that just AZ he was leaving
he White House for the Capitol. he
heard that the new German drive
had lust begun and that