Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-20

u ! man must De aware iHdi the luttIt
= development of society directly de
u ponds.
i Bodies of international counsel and
: suggestion are presently TO be ere
= ated in connection with the league
= of nations in this very field, but II Is
r rational action and the enlightened
poliry of individuals. corporations anu
Societies within each nation that must
hiring about the actual reforms.
The members of the committee on
labor in the two houses VIII hataly
need suggestions from HE aS 'o "..1
means thew shall seek 10 MAKE 'i'
federal government the agent oil tny
,.hnla nation in pointing Out ana IL
noed h. guiding the process OF re-
organization and reform
Find Work For Heroes ga,
am sure that it is necessary io'
mo tn remind that there Us one IN.
mediate and very practical ques'l,1"
,flohor that we should meet IN ult
,,oet liberal spirit. We must see 70
:, Thai our returning soldiers are as
';.t.d in every practicable way 10
| Ond tine places for which jhey are ~
tod in the daily work oil TINS count
rbis can be- done by developing anu
/ r,airtaiuing upon an adequate scaie
/ no admirable organization cieateu o5
! ,aa Dauarfment of Labor for piacils
men seeking work and II can dlso
ha dome in at least one very Eie"'
eli nv creating new opportunities
for Individual enterprise. ~.
Tho Secretary of the interior ""9
,,,intad ont The way by which return
no soldiers may be helped TO ma an"
nc nm land in the hitherto undtNef
IA rsginns of the country WhieA
~, federal government already mas
,,rorared or can readily prepare lor
r,ItiyariDn and also on many oil lue
,,,t.over or neglected areas when ne
,,.tlhin the limits of the older states
va onca more take the liberty OF
recommending very urgently thd' MS
plans shall receive the immeala'e anu
Substantial support Of the congress.
Peculiar and very stimulating con-
ditions await our commerce and mus .
trial enterprise in the immediate NJ .
ture. Unusual opportunities VIII I
presently present themselves to our 5
merchants and producers in foreign
markets. and large fields for prohta-
bic investment will be opened TO our {
free capital But ii is not only that p
that ! am thinking' it is not chiefly a
Of that that | am thinking,
Many great industries Frustrated by s
The war wait to be rehabilitated in Il
many parts of the world where what +
will be lacking is not brains or will d
ng hands or organizing capacity or a
experienced skill, but machinery and a
'aw materials and capital
/ believe that our business men, our f
merchants. our manufacturers and our g
capitalists will have the wisdom to ser II
hat prosperity in one part of fhe world e.
minister's to prosperity everywhere; .
hat there is in very true sense a u
olidaritv of interest throughout the p,
world Of enterprise, and that our deal a.
ngs with the countries that have need }.
# our products and our money will 4
each them TO deem as more than ever
riends whose necessities we seek in the MI
lght way to serve. a,
'uture in Foreign Trade. tt
Our new merchant ships, which have Il
a some quarters been feared as dc u
tructivc rivals, may prove helpful rly u
Is rather aud common servants very p
much needed aud welcome IL
our great slipyards, new and old,
viii be so opened to the use of the
World that they will prove immensely U'
ervlceabe to every maritime people in al
estoring, much more rapidly than ~
.oud otherwise have been possible, the -
)nnage wantonly destroyed in the war y
| have only to suggest that there are III
ANY points at which we can facilitate al
mercan enterprise in foreign trade bv y
pp0rtune legislation and make it easy 10
n American merchant ships where
ley will be welcomed as friends rather he
an AS dreaded antagonists. rH
America has great and honorable .li'
ryice to perfrom in bringing the com M
ercial aud industrial undertakings Of '''
e world back to their old scope and VT
wing again, and putting a solid stnp. th'
re Of credit under them. Our legiSla. 20
)n should he friendly to such plans
al purposes. 't
And credit ana enterprise alike will Ut
quickened by timely and helpful leg IA.
alton with regard to taxation hope lal
at the Congress Will find it possible '''
undertake an early reconsideration we
federal taxes, in order to make our 5h'
stem of taxation more simple aud '''
~ VI duHlhlStIdlibh anu the taxes w.
omsclVes as little burdensome as the, ana
u be made and vet suffice to support So,
2 government and meet all its ohliga
ms.
The figures to which those obligations taF
We arisen are very great indeed. but III"
Av are not so great as to make il dif "t'
ut for the nation to meet them and gre
'et them. perhaps. in single genera ger
NJ, 10y taxes which will neither crush Pial'
r discourage. ~id
They are not so great as they seem "h
Il not so great rs the immense sums
have had to hotre~, added to tht rit
menSe sums we have had to raise hy ma
cation, would seem 10 indicate, for 5h'
ry large proportion of those sums l'I
Pc raised in order that they might be l"f
med to the governments with which ua
were associated in the war and us
'se loans WILL of course. constitute the
ets, not liabilities, and will not have one
he. taken care of by our taxpayers. Gus
commends Tax Changes i'
! ne main thing we shall have to care 4
- that our taxation shall rest rs ~
htly as possible on the productive gra
UurcpS of the rOuutrC that itc ra +nc | vii