Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-22

land in the hitherto undeveloped regions OF
the country which the federal govern
ment has already prepared or can readily
prepare for cultivation and also on many
of the cut-over or neglected areas which
lie within the limits of the older States;
and once more take the liberty OF rec
ommending very urgently that his plans
shall receive the immediate and substan-
tial support of the Congress.
FUTURE OF COMMERCE
1.-THE peculiar and very stimulating con-
ditions await our commerce and industrial
enterprises in the immediate future. I'm
usual opportunities will present them
selves to our merchants and producers In
foreign markes and large fields for prof
table investment will be opened to our
free capital. But 1t Is not only Of that
l am thinking; 1t Is not chiefly of that
am thinking Many great industries pros
trated by the war wait to be rehabilitated
In many parts of the world where what
will be lacking is not brains or willing
hands or organizing capacity of expert
enced skill, but machinery and raw ma
terials and capital. l believe that our
business men. our merchants, our man.
ufacturers and our capitalists, will have
the vision to see that prosperity in one
part Of the world ministers to prosperity
everywhere; that there is In a very true
sense large demand throughout tho
world of enterprise and that our dealings
with the countries that have need of our
products and our money will teach them
to deem us more than ever friends whose
necessities we seek in the right way to
serve.
OUR NEW MERCHANT SHIPS
"Our new merchant ships, which have
in some quarters been feared as destruc-
tive rivals. may prove helpful rivals.
rather, and common servants very much
needed and very welcome. Our great
ships new and old. will be so opened to
the use of the world that they will prove
immensely servceable to every maritime
people in restoring. much more rapidly
than would otherwise have been possible
the tonnage wantonly destroyed in the
war. l have only to suggest that there
are many points at which we can facilitate
American enterprise in foreign trade by
opportune legislation and make 1t easy
for American merchants to go where they
will be welcomed as friends rather than
as dreaded antagonists. America has a
great and honorable service to perform
in bringing the commercial and Industrial
undertakings Of the world back to their
old scope and swing again, and putting
a solid structure Of credit under them
All our legislation should be friendly to
should plans and purposes.
And credit and enterprise alike will
be quickened by timely and helpful
legislation with regard to taxation. l
hope that the Congress will find 1t possible
to undertake an early reconsideration Of
federal taxes. in order to make our sys-
tenn of taxation more simple and easy
of administration and the taxes them
selves as little burdensome as they can
be made and yet sufficient to support
the government and meet all its obliga-
tons. The figures to which those obliga-
tons have arisen are very great indeed
but they are not so great as to make II
difficult for the nation to meet them
and meet them, perhaps In a single gem
Grafton. by taxes which will neither
crush nor discourage. These are not so
great as they seem. not 30 great as the