The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-05

AS you know, under our former
liberal system of Immigration thous-
ands and thousands of foreigners
from every place on the inhabitable
globe came to our land to enjoy our
prosperity and our hospitality, and as
soon as we became involved in war
many these commenced not only
their reasonable utterances but their
reasonable acts against the safety
and security of our country News
papers ublished in foreign language
! reached treason and sedition against
our country. Flannel-mouthed scoun-
drels went about stirring industrial
strikes The criminal element among
these foreigners went SO far as to
blow up munition factories, public
works. railroad bridges, and had the
audacity to enter the capitol of the
nation and explode bomb at the
very threshold Of the American SEN
ate.
Several American papers com
menced to preach demagogic and Sc
ditlous doctrine, advising people to
stand aloof from the country's des-
perate ecorts to prepare for war; to
stand idly by and lend not helping
hand but to do those thing that would
! hinder us in our erorts to vindicate
; American honor and preserve Ameri-
can liberty
Next was the question of rails
ing the revenue in part necessary
for the conduct of this war
and your congress adhered to the
old democratic principle laid down by
Adam Smith over hundred years ago
that the power to tax vested, in the
government should lay its heaviest
upon those who enjoyed the greatest
prosperity and who had accumulated
the greatest wealth. Therefore, when
we laid the taxes for the war we gath
cred from incomes, inheritances and
excess profits practically IS per cent
of the enormous estimated revenue
under said law of $5,525,0O0000. We
levied the taxes upon the luxuries and
LETT the necessaries free. Is per cent
only of this enormous sum is borne
by the masses of the people
L he next step was the appropria-
tons for airplanes, for submarines
submarine chasers, battle crisers, ma
chine guns, army rifles. field artillery,
for clothes and shoes an for every
necessary equipment for our great
army and navy
The question naturally arises in
the mind of the average American
citizen, How has this enormous sum
OF $19,l 81 100000 that was appropriate
ed during the extra session of the
65th Congress been expended"
May | say to you that no nation in
the history of the world ever equip
ped itself with more expedition or
with more efficiency than did the Am
erican government. Today the out
put of battle planes going to Europe
is over 800 month, and in the month
of August we will reach the peak of
airplane construction and it is esti-
mated that 1,012 airplanes per month
thereafter will be going to the bat
tie fronts of Europe
Without divulging any military Sc
crets, may | say to you in just praise
of American industrial toilers and
American business men that we are
today. eight months further advanced
in our preparation for war than it
was estimated we would be by the
ablest experts not only in this coun-
try but i'll Europe.
My fellow citizens, many of you
may say that these laws were drastic.
Admitted. War is drastic business. 1t
calls for patriotism, it calls for un-
selhshness, it calls for self-denial, it
calls for blood, it calls for treasure, it