Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-11

have always been In the world and they
will always be in the world. They are
Inevitable unless the nations put stop
to IL. That is my first proposition.
My second proposition is that our
position in the world is such that we
eanuot avoid being drawn into any war
that starts. Now for awhile after this
war between Germany and the Entente
nations began we thought we could keep
out of it because we thought we were
S000 miles away. We have nothing to
do with it. We all know what desperate
efforts the President of the United
mates made to keep us out OF it, and
he was sustained by a tremendous pub
lie oninion in this country. =
we cannot live as hermit nation.
IL there is another war we will newt
ably be drawn into it. We occupy a
big space in the world. We occupy
there is another war we will inevitably
be involved in it. That means that II we
are in the program of wars we have
to prepare for them We may not have
a war for twenty five years, but we
have to prepare. That proposition
means this: 1t means taxes. Not the
taxes that we paid to the United
States. Taxes many times larger than
signed in Paris very shortly will not
be the last, for peaces have been
signed in the past.
Predicts Great Tax Burden
1.-THE greatest nation, the richest ma .
tion and public sentiment in the United
States have q war program never here
tofore tolerated any preparedness OF the
\ United States. Remember that. j
mentioned this because it was far from
the horrors of actual war. The burdens
of the war preparations will be awful
and the national taxes, Of the United
States will be four and perhaps tive
times beyond even what they have been
in the past, and that will be in in
direct taxes. A large part of the Unit
ed States have discovered that taxes car
be raised by levying on the profits oi
the corporations, and If we are to pre-
/. pare for war it means that every mar
and every woman, professional man OF
business clerk or his employer. having
make up his amount and must pay thu
life. -. N. ,--...
my first proposition is that now Il
not only the best but probably is th
most admirable time in the history Q
the world when it is, possible to max
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world to prevent war, and l will tel
you why. Heretofore, throughout tn
history of the world it has been tn
4 course of the government to preven
an agreement against war. 1t has bee
the course by nations who have bee
behind the government whether to max
war. As long as that condition existe
there was no use to consider a grea
covenant like this and to agree agains
the war. When. however, war brok
out virtually all these nations hay
been wiped out of existence except three
You remember when our great republl
was formed much more than hundre
years ago the first great experimer
in self government was made and W
are the oldest republic in the world the
has existed longer than any other re
public. What we did has had tire
mendous influence on the rest OF tn
world.
"Great Britain is as much a repre-.
sentative government, almost as mucl
of democratic government as tn
United States, and France is anothe
great republic; Italy is a limited mon
archy, and even Japan, our other asso