Show PRESIDENT WILSON CONGH THAT NATION MST MET MEET GREAT NEEDS Ie declares clares it is necessary to proceed immediately with new war tax laws joint session hears plea pica of chief ex to enact legislation t to 0 stabilize money market for the coming year washington president pi lylleon per took charge ol 01 tile war nr tax legislation ond appear appalling lug before it 11 joint bession of congress con giess on oll amny 27 declared declai ed it was necessary to proceed immediately with now liew war ta laws the file presidents addre address Ls lu lit full follows gentlemen of tile congress Con giess it Is with unaffected reluctance that hint I 1 collie to lo ask you oil to prolong out our se betes loii loll long donough to provide indio nor ild adequate equate resources for the treasury ins i ns for foi the lie conduct londi Kt of tit alic war I 1 have kiino reason acason to appreciate appie clato its as fully us lis ou do how 11 id the ho session hub has been your labors labois have lieen been severe and PrOtract eJ you havo passed it long series which required tile debate of ninny doubtful quest questions of judgment and ninny difficult questions ot of principle na its well ns its of practice the summer Is upon us its in ili which labor find counsel tire 1110 twice fig ous u s and nie ahre constantly apt to be lin lilt paired by lassitude find fatigue the me fire tit nt bond find wrought wo ought ni soon ns its possible to go imil render lender in intimate account of our oin trusteeship to 10 tile lie people who delegated us its to net coi ItIl them pill in tile weighty and anxious matters lint flint crowd ulon us its lit in these liis lays of critical choice unit action lilt hut wo hire dine not go to tile elections until we ie have dono done our duty ditty to tile full these tire nio days das when duty stands stark nud and naked find even with closed eyes we e know it Is there louses we nie have elthel lone done our or we liae have not the fact will bo be us as gross and plain is the lie duty ditty jn in such midi it case lassitude ind fatigue seeni negligible ellough ellou kh rho facts me fire follies old and to freshen the labor at and tile fuels filets tire are these ad additional I 1 dional revenues manifest 1 li be provided for it would be a most unsound policy to raise too largo large a proportion of them by 1 loan fill and it Is evident that the four billions now alro pio i sedel for by cantlon tant lon will not of hein selves sustain aln the greatly enlarged budget to alch we adust immediately look forward for waid wo we cannot in ta liness willi alt until t tho ho end of file be fiscal leu clr Is nt lit hand I 1 to 0 I 1 so tile lie people pit of tile taxes they must pay on oil their earnings of the present calendar year whose accountings unit and will then be closed we cannot get increased inci eased taxes unless the country knows what they tire are to be und and practices tile necessary necess nii acon oiny to moke inoke them available natla lile early eaily definiteness as to what its tasks task tire are to be Is absolutely necessary for the successful Is ration of tho the treasury it cannot finiko fair and workable ablo lit in haste and it must fiame its regula lions in ill haste if it Is not to do its exact task until lie very ely eve ee of its ll 11 the rho present tax laws aro air marred aried di moreover lIlo leoe by inequities which ought to be reined remedied led indisputable raus every one find and wo we cannot titter niter or lillne at them tin in to stolle state Is enough to stabilize market and yet et perli nils vola will mill permit me file to dwell for it a inome moment nit ution upon the situation they disclose E enormous normous loans freely spent in tile stimulation D i industry of almost every sort pro pio lino itice lations and extravagances which presently ninke make the whole economic structure questionable and lit in find and the very ely basis of credit Is cut anwa only fall fair equitably dla til tri buted taxation of tile the widest aliel fienco and hawing drawing chiefly from tile ces which would bo be likely to de 10 credit by their very cly aban lance ce can call eitt inflation nil anil keep heep our industrial free of procula tion lion and waste wo we shrill naturally turn there tore fore I 1 suppose bupp to war profits find and incomes aud luxuries for tile I 1 taxes aos hut the war profits and lit in olues minea upon which tile increased inci eased taxes will bo be levied IN will lie ile tile the profits and ti colnes of tile calendar year icar 1 it bould be manifestly unfair to walt wait latil the early eaily months of 1910 1010 to say they are to he it might be difficult I 1 should imagine to run iain tile tho mill with water 0 eliat t fail already gono gone over the wheel need money now 11 taxes of that sort will not bo be paid until june of next your benr nud and tile ho treasury must anticipate them it t use alio money they tire are to pro luio luce je defoie lore it Is duo 1110 it must pell fiell fiort time certificates of indebtedness in ili tile autumn a much linger larger sale of df long time bonds must be effected lias yet iet been A attempted what are re tile bari barckers kers to io think k of the iffe ites it if they do not certainly know where tle tile money la Is to come collie from which Is to take them up tip and how low ore bie investors linc stora to tip the alio purchase of thesa bonds bonda with tiny any sort of confidence sr knowledge of their own affairs if they do not know what taxes they tire to pay antl and what economies and adjustments of their business they clust effect 1 I lannot cannot assure tho the country of n successful administration of the treasury in ili 1918 it if tile the question of further taxation Is to bo be left undecided until 1919 1910 the consideration tyint tivit every other oilier now and makes empry ther other seem trivial and nog ligI I 1 l Is the waning of tho the war wa fire not only lu in the midst of it tile tho war we are at the aery peak crisis of it IL ot of of our men I 1 carrying our hearts with klicin and our f fortunes tire in the fields atad millis i H are ire crowding faster and faster to the ports of and england with regiment titter lifter regiment thousand lifter lifto r thousand to it loin them 1 until tile lelly el shall bo be behlen and brought brou glit to it il reckoning with there cini call le ile no pause or intermission the great enterprise must on oil tile the contri contrary I 1 ry tole bo pushed greater if fi I 1 ml id greater energy the volume of our might inest steadily und rapidly liu be there here call be no question of 0 resisting it If lint that Is to ile 10 accomplished gentlemen money inest sustain it to tile the utilio st our elal program must tio no wore more be left lit in doubt or suffered to lug ing than our ordnance program or our ship plug or our munitions program or our program 1 in for making mil jull lions of men inen rendy ready others fire ro not indeed but merely plans upon piper unless there la Is to lu bo be nn all unquestionable cupply of ir money ioney that ly Is tile the situation field it Is tile which ci rates creates tile the duty ditty no choice or preference of ours only one way there Is only one way any to ineat that tunit duty we inest meet it without selfishness or fear of consequences polities Is adjourned it rho elections will go to those who think least of it to those who go to ill lie 0 constituencies without explanations or excuses with a u plain recoil of duty ditty falt and performed ii for one ani always confident flint tile people of tills country will give it just verdict upon tile the service of the nien men who act for thein when whon tile filets ore arc such that no mail can disguise or conceal them there Is no danger of deceit no now nv an intense find anil pitiless M light heats bolits upon every man and every action lit in this tragic plot of war var that Is now ilow upon ill alie stage it if hobbyists lobbyists hurry to washington to attempt to turn what you do in ill lie matter of taxation to their protection vr fir advantage the alie light will lent bent also on them there Is ia abundant fuel for the lie light lit in alio lie records of lie treasury with regard to profits of every sort alio the profiteering that colinot bo be got at by the restraints of find and lovo love of country can call bo be got tit at by tax fox aaion there la Is such profiteering now flow and the alie information with regard to it Is available find indisputable 1 I it am ILI you to act it aron I 1 if m I 1 it alila its matter ut of taxation now gentlemen not lot because I 1 do not avow ki ow that you cau can see find interpret IQ die filets facts and tile duty aliey 1111 impose POse just ns as well and with fis as clear a perception of tile lic obligations ligat ions involved as I 1 can call but because there Is a n certain taiti solemn nii batig satisfaction in ill shoring dialing with you tile the re or of such a thue TI alio 1 0 world orld never stood in laich case before befog men never before tin and 11 I 1 so c clear 1 car clear vr ur so it a vision of duty III 1 I know that you yon will begrudge the work to be lone done liei here c by us its no more than tile lie men inen begrudge us its their who lie in ili the lie trenches find and stilly sally forth to their death there Is if stimulating comradeship knitting us its fill all together and tills ills task to which I 1 invite your immediate consideration will bo be performed under favorable fa influences if wo we will look to what the country IS 1 thinking ruid expecting luid curo cure nothing at nil for what Is being said and believed lit in tile lie lobbies of washington hotels where the atmosphere seems to in make inake it possible to believe what Is believed nowhere else the nations spirit 1111 have ve you sou not felt the spirit of tile nation rise ilso fill and its thought become it a single and common thought these eventful days lit in which we havo have been sending our boys to tile other side I 1 think you must read that thought its as I 1 do to mean tills that the people of tills country tire arc not only united lit in the resolute pur purpose loso to win tills war but tire are ready nil and willing to benr bear tiny any burden and undergo any sacrifice that it may be necessary for to bear in order to win it wo we need not be afraid to tax them if we lay taxes justly they know tile war must lie bo paid tor for and flint it li Is they who must pay for it and it if the bl burden irlen la is justly distributed and tile lio sacrifice mide made n common sacrifice from froin which notie none escapes who can bear it all they will carry it cheerfully and with it sort of solvi solemn nii pride 1 I 1 always have been proud to be nil an A I 1 i and was never more proud than now when nil all that we have said and till all flint wu we have foreseen about our peo people ill Ig incoming coming true trite tile great lays days have ha conie come witch when tile lie only tiling that they risk for or admire Is duty duly greatly and adequately lone done when their only wish for america Is that slie may share the freedom she enjoys when a groat great compelling sympathy wells up tip lit in their hearts for men fuel everywhere wio who suffer and tire are opposed oppress od and ahl aheu n they see tit at wol least 8 t tile the high uses for which if their 1 air wealth has been piled up tip and alie ir mighty power accumulated and counting neither blood nor treasure now that their final day or of opportunity has come rejoice to spend and to be spent through a lonn night flight of suffering find and terror tit in order that they and men everywhere may see tile lawn of a day of righteousness and justice n nd pence peace the western drive shall wo we grow weary when they bid us net act alay I 1 mid add tills this word justas I 1 aas was leaving the white house I 1 was told that the expected drive on tile the western front lind had apparently be all riffi you can realize how that sol set my iny feeling as I 1 came to s ali arild how it seemed to the purpose which I 1 have tried tied to express In those these lines 11 r linao the lilt work of tills session the way in tile two houses of congress lieve operated cooperated co with the executive haq been generous and nd admirable mirable and it Is not in any spirit of suggesting duty neglected but only to remind you of the common cause onist and the common obligation that I 1 have hab ventured to como come to you today |