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Show EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENTS ADDRESS The consideration that dominates every other now, and makes every other seem trivial and negligible, is the winning of the war. We are not only in the midst of the war, we are at the very peak and crisis of it. Hundreds of thousands of our men, carrying our hearts with them and our fortunes, are in the field, and ships are crowding faster and faster to the ports of France and England with regiment after regiment, thousand after thousand, to join them until the enemy shall be beaten and brought to a reckoning with mankind. There can be no pausft of intermission. The great enterprise must, on the contrary, con-trary, be pushed with greater energy. The volume of our might must steadily and rapidly be augmented until there can be no question of resisting it. If that is to be accomplished, gentlemen, gentle-men, money must sustain it to the utmost. Our financial program pro-gram must no more be left in doubt or suffered to lag than our ordnance program or our ship program or our munitions program pro-gram or our program for making millions of men ready. These others are not programs, indeed, but mere plans ,upon paper, unless there is to be an unquestionable supply of money. That is the situation, and it is the situation which creates the duty, no choice or preference of ours. There is only one way to meet that duty. We must meet it without selfishness or fear of consequences. Politics is adjourned. The elections will go to those who think least of it; to those who go to the constituent . cies without explanations or excuses, with a plain record of duty faithfully and disinterestedly performed. I, for one, am always confident that the people of this country will give a just verdict upon the service of the men who act for them when the facts are such that no man can disguise or conceal them. |