EX-SENATOR HUSTINGS PROPHECY
(Continued from yesterday)
Apply Universal Service to the Rich
I cannot believe that Americans will
not cheerfully pay all of their excess
profits, and, if necessary, even some
of their non-excess profits .even a
part of their profits that they earned
in peace times, to help win the war.
Is there any good reason why they
shound not do so as a matter of fair
ness and justice? We have entered
this war upon the theory and on the
practice, I hope, of universal service.
.Men have got to serve according to
their ability to serve. Not all men
can serve in the same way. We rec
ognize that in the draft. We take
•nly such men as are physically fit to
be in the Army to fight for their coun
try. Other men will have to “do their
bit" in a little different way; some by
military service, same by civil service;
same along the lines of their profes
sion; some in the halts of congress:
some in this and some in that line of
business. The great burden must
necessary fall hardest upon the men
who have to go to war. They are call
ed upon to make the supreme sacri
fice their happiness, and the happi
ness of their families, and they are
called upon to sacrifice their busi
ness; to sacrifice their revenues; to
sacrifice everything that makes life
worth living. Many of these men are
going to sacrifice their lives and their
business, not only In part, but in
Whole. Those who are only called up
on for money contributions are only
asked to give up a part of their unus
ual and excess profits. Their lives,
their conforts, their happiness, their
business is not interfered with.
We must call upin those for finan
cial assistance who are best able to
give It- Those are the men who will
have to carry the financial burdens
0 fthe war. When we say, “You are
the strong men; you are the men who
have gotto furnish the sinews oft war,
because you are so fortunately situo.t
ed that you can give this service,” do
you think that we are going to find
a lot of quitters and a lot of slackers?
1 Should dislike to have so poor opin
ion of the men of wealth of this coun
try that when they are called upon to
make a sacrifice infinitely less than
we exact from a certain number of our
citizens they will not cheerfully * re
spond to the call.
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Paying Taxes Not Supreme Sacrifice
We talk of the sacrifice. The men
who are drafted are the ones who are
called upon to make the supremo sac
rifice. I say again, it is not sacrifice
in that sense of the word when we tax
men in such a way that they will on
joy more returns during the war tnan
they did before the war. It would on
ly be a sacrifice if they gave some
thing which they enjoyed in times of
peace. So I agreed with other Sena
tors on the floor here who have sail
that, as a matter of principle if not of
expediency, it would not be asking to
much for every concern in the coun ry
to toe willing to give the country
every dollar of excess or war profits
it earns. I also agreed in the thought
that no man. ought to want to emerge
from this war—a war in which the
vital interests of this country are at
stake, a war in which we felt it neces
sary to make the sacrifices that we
are going to make—financially bene
fitted from it, if his country needs that
which he profits. No one proposes to
take all, even of the' excess profits—
that is to say, the profits he makes
because of and which he would not
make but for the war—because we
want to leave him something to ex
pand with if necessary; but I repeat
that if necessary he ought to be will
ing to give all, just as till is given
by the man in the trench or on the
sea.
We are talking here of war profits.
jWe all know that this war has given
a great impetus to business; there is
not any question that money is being
made by the great corporations and
by the people generally far in excess
of what they would have made if we
had had no war. Consequently, in a
sense, if they nre permitted to enjoy
this favor, they will merely be reaping
the fruits and the grain that are
going to grow on the graves of our
own soldiers that we are sending
across the sett—the fruit and grain
grovn in the national cemeteries in
which our men are going to be buried;
and I say I have sufficient confidence
in the Americanism of these men,
even they own millions and millions
of dollars, to believe that they will
put themselves in any position -where
' they will c«—— right to keep tnd will
feel right in keeping the money that
was made by reason of the distress
and the stress of their country in the
time of war. I do not say that it is
wrong for men to make money dur
ing the war, but I do say it is wrong
for them to want to keep it all if
their country needs it for its defense.
It is only fair and just that they
should contribute their share.
Law Should Hit All Alike
It miay be that we have not gotten
over the old superstition that life is
cheap and money is sacred. We who
voted for the declaration of war and
believed it was necessary, and who
notv know betteh than ever that it
was necessary; we who voted for the
draft law knew what it meant. And
when arguments were made upon the
floor that we had no right to take our
men and compel them to sacrifice
their lives, what did we say about it?
Ale said that it wras necessary to do it,
and being necessary, that ended the
arument. W]e said that if we did not
have the power to draft men, the Na
tion would not have the power to de
fend itself; that we were justified in
passing tile draft law because we must
have men to fight the battles for the
union. There was not any suggestion
• •Hide then that these men w’ould not
respond; that they would not go out
for their country and light In Europe
even for $360 a year. It W’as not said
that these men would not give up a
life of ease, perhaps, even lives of lux
ury and incomes for in excess of $360
a year to go and fight in Europe, and
yet we are dealing with human lives
and happiness when we did that. Now
it comes to raising money, which also
is necessary for the iiu.i/w, of light
ing this war.
Without it we cannot send our sol
diers and sailors across the seas; with
out it we cannot provision them; we
cannot munition them; we cannot arm
them; we cannot take care of them.
But when we say we must back up
and support and arm these men whom
we have drafted, by money taken from
those who are making money out of
the war, and those who have money
to spare, then we adopt a different
rule, and say that we must have con
sideration for such men; we must as
sume that they are unpatriotic; we
must assume that they are selfish; we
must assume that they are slackers;
we must assume that they are not
good, true Americans for they will
close down their factories and shut
them up if we try to make them pay
a tax. I do not believe it; I do not be
lieve that there is a single concern inj
this country—and I make no excep-j
tions; if 1 made an exception I would ]
be impugning the honor and the pat- I
iotlain of the men whom I would so j
I
except—I say there is not an excep
tion, that no matter what taxes are
imposed upon them they will pay it;
they will continue to run their factor
ies; they will continue to help the
country; they wil continue to help win
this war.
No Such Profits In Peace Times
I have not as yet heard any man
say that he did not want to pay. All
I have heard men say is that they did
not want to 'be taxed in a way to
ruin them. Nobody wants to ruin any
business; nobody wants to dry up the
spring ot it source. It would be the
height of folly to do any such thing as
that; we could not do a more foolish
thing than that; but why assume that
we are going to dry up the spring
when we only want to dig up and
drink the overflow from the spring?
That is noA drying up the spring at
its source. I cannot be made to be
lieve, or, what is more important, the
American people cannot be made to
believe, that business is going to be
crippled when it is proposed only to
take the surplus which it never en
joyed in the heyday of profit-making
before the war, when we give business
good measure for what it has usually
made, and then, heaped upon top of
that, another 50 per cent. The people
cannot be made to believe, and tiie
manufacturer himself cannot be made
to believe, that it will put him out of
business. We are only cutting down
half of an exorbitant profit that busi
ness never would have made if we had
not declared war and if we had not
drafted men to go across the sea to
fight the war.
Mr Johnson of South Dakota, here
requested to be ailoweu to have the
floor a minute and Senator Hustlng
yields to him.
Mr Johnson—I agree very fully with
what the Senator froon Wisconsin says.
When the so-called draft law provided
for conscription of men was before the
Seriate I >argued then—and I repeat
now—that all should have been con
scripted. Then all could have been used
tax any capacity which the government
requires, and it would have etitirely
done away with the right of any set
of men to say, as 'has been suggested
by the Senator from Wisconsin, "If
you do not allow us to fix the taxes;
if you take to much from us, we will
quit.'
Mr. President, if every man in the
United States had been conscripted
and been made subject to the call of
the government, wo would not have
bear'd any such talk as that to which
the Senator from Wisconsin has refer
red. A conscription of all men would
have been truly democratic, and I am
unable to see how any good citizen
could have objected to it. If a man
should have been needed to serve his
country in any capacity that the gov
ernment might require of him, and
it became necessary to call on some
of our large corporations to turn out
commodities necessary for the welfare
of the country, such could have been
easily brought about under this plan.
It would have been their patriotic
duty, and I am sure they would have
complied willingly with such a request
If not they would have been compelled
to comply and would have been placed
in the same class in that liespect as
drafted men, sent to the front.
Means Conscription of Money Too
Mr. Hustling—Mr. President, I thank
the Senator for his interpolation. I
agree with him, at least to the extent
that every man ought to feel himself
conscripted if lie is not, in fact, con
scripted. in theory I think every man
should have been conscripted. It may
be that it would have been impracti
cable to have conscripted every man
and every industry because we have
not the organization reacy to use such
a force wisely, but In so far as we
could use such a force wisely every
man should be conscripted in the Na
tion’s service. We have men here in
Washington now who have come here,
leaving their homes and business, and
are giving their .service gratis to the
Government. I am receivng letters
every day from men from my state,
men of wealth and standing as wel' as
from men of humble means, uli ready
to work for the govi rnment without
pay.
There is no equity in the idea that
some men are made to light and die,
that other men are made to pay an !
die, while others are made to pay only
and then there shall be millions and
millions of people not doing service
of any kind. We ait ought to be in a
position where we ought at least to tty
to do some service. This country ought
to he welded now spontaneously into
one compact force the whole working
in harmony and in the same direction,
with every ounce of energy and power,
so that we could use every energyand
every resource and every power, ma
terial or otherwise. In the promotion of
the prosecution of the war and in
bringing about the defeat of our en
emies; but we have not done that.
i I repeat that in a sense we are all
conscripted in this war. One man fun
damentally owes as high a duty u
the government as every other man
to do his part, in his way, to a--sist in
bunging the war to a successful con
clusion. There ought to be no sacrifice
demanded of a man that he would not
oe willing himself to make. I do not
believe there is a man in this Cbarr-b-t
v ho is not wiling to make any sacri
ilco he may be called upon to make
In this wai.
The war has just begun; no mat
knows just what sacrifice he will be
called upon to make. The opportunity
for sacrifices twill be great betweer
now and the time of the close of the
war. I believe there is no man in this
Chamber who will not be willing tc
make any sacrifice if called upon; and
I want to go further and say that there
is not a true American citizen, whethei
he is engaged in manufacturing, ir
trade, in agriculture, or in any othei
enterprise, who right down deep in his
heart is not willing to make the su
preme sacrifice if he is called upon t<
make it- Of course it is human na
ture to hope that he will not be called
upon to make too great a sacrifice; bul
here is the forum where these things
will have to be determined, and why
hould we assume that men who hav<
the means and ability to help finance
the war are less patriotic and less
willing than are those who are called
upon and are ready to sacrifice theli
blood or life in their country’s defense'
(Concluded tomorrow)
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To M. D. McCumber, your heirs,
executors,, assigns or persona!
representatives:
You are hereby notified thai
I have expended in Inner and im
provements, the sum of one
hundred dollars each year for the
years of 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
1912, 1913 and 1914 on the Protec
tion Association Placer mining claim
situated on Coffee creek in the Koug
arok Recording Precinct, Alaska,
note of location of which is re
corded in Vol. 53, page 197 ol
said precinct Records.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if within ninety dayc after the last
publication of this notice you have
failed to contrbute your portion
of said expenditure, your interest
in said claim will become the pro
perty of the undersigned , your
co-owner, under section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
ADOLPH J. MUELLER.
Co-owner.
Date of first publ.. March 22. 191S.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1918.
Mr. Miner
YOU ARE THE BACKBONE
OF THE COUNTRY
To those who belong to the MINERS UNION. Don’t forget to attend
next Saturday night’s meeting, because the summer wage scale will be
thoroughly discussed.
And to those who don’t belong to the UNION, it is
about time that you did.
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“PLEDGE POSTER”
IX OUR WINDOW
YVe will faithfully live up to the pledge in every particular.
And take this opportunity to announce to the public, that from
now on, during the war, our prices shall be based on still smaller
profits than heretofore. YVe will make a reduction on several
items in our store at once.
Our country and nation first
Our own individual welfare next
Thorulf Lehmann