Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-26
Take Away Profits

VI q oPCANu W NIL
ator Gerald P. Nye.
Take Away Profits
Also by taking the profits out OF
war through income tax Legislation to
become effective automatically with
the entry of u country int war; by
fixing those rates, not so high as to
make livelihood difficult, but high
enough to convince one and all that
there is not going to be as much pros
perity in war time as there is in peace
time, and high enough to put all peo-
pie on notice that one and all alike not
only the dollar-a-day boys in the
trenches, but all are going to have to
sacrifice in another effort to make the
world safe for democracy to end war
or whatever you have as a slogan the
next time.
Again / say that laws and policies
of this kind do not eliminate all the
dangers or causes of war. But l insist
that such a program would eliminate
the greater percentage of the danger of
the United States eve being drawn
into wa or having to defend herself
against attack.
"Oh, God, give us the courage to
face the facts and to follow the die
tates of experience; give us again that
high and noble resolve which was ours
less than 20 years ago when, while the
bells sounded the signing of the Ar
mistice, we turned our faces heaven
ward and gave thanks, while fervently
and v~ociferously we resolved that nev-
experience, such as hat one was, to be
xy.c,<oJ ,,1o- <k,~ oo,]k that o.r cht1
dren and their children would never
have to bear witness the destruction
and the heartbreak which came to
earth because men felt war the only
resort in the settlement of dispute.
Give us courage to resolve
against the recognized and some
time acknowledged purpose Of
men to drive the world or portions
of it to more mad armament races
which always lead to war, though
some insist that great preparation
for war is the best insurance Of
continuing peace. Oh, give us the
vision which will permit us to see
how mankind is played with by
greed which seeks to arm all the
world with the same, identical in
struments of warfare. Give us the
will to see and the power to grasp
the facts which so clearly reveal
war and preparations for it to be
largely the product of men and
systems prOfiting from the perpet-
uated fears and suspicious Of peo-
pie.
IF we can have these powers to
perceive and the will to progress we
shall meet boldly the challenge laid
down by the system which has no
great fear of war because experience
has demonstrated that war is the one
and only thing that pays the systems
participants larger returns than do
those hours which find nations only
preparing for war. If we can but have
the courage asked we will take our
places, one and all, giving no quarter
in our determination to enlarge and
brighten the prospects of own off
spring and their children, building for
the present and the future. like
An old man, travelling a lone
highway,
Came at the evening cold and
gray,
To a chasm deep and wide.
Ahc Uiu HldII SIOSScu III tie tWl-
light dim,
For the sullen stream held no
fears for him,
But he turned when he reached
the other side,
And builded a bridge to span the
tide.
"Old Man." cried a fellow pilgrim
near,
"You are wasting your strength
with building here;
Your journey will end with the
ending day,
And you never again will pass this
way.
"You have crossed the chasm
deep and wide,
Why build you a bridge at even
tide?"
And the builder raised his old
gray head;
Good friend, on the path l have
come" he said,
There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet will pass this
way.
This stream, which has been as
naught to rle,
To that fair haired boy may a
pitfal be;
He, too, must cross In the twilight
dim
Good friend, l am building this
bridge for him."
"On the other hand, denied the
power to see truth and the courage 10
deal with it, denied the will to pierce
smokescreens, and keep our eye upon
facts, we shall ultimately find our
selves face to face with ugly truths,
but not Sc ugly as to prevent u cal
loused hearts from dancing with glee
over the fact that when we send our
IONS forth as soldiers in another great
war, powder, shrapnel she'll and poi
son gases invented or manufactured in
our own land and sold to those who