The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-16
FATE OF NATIONS
UPON FARMERS
SAYS WILSON
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CONTINUED From rage One.)
dressed ourselves. There Is not
single selfish element, so far as can
see, in the cause we are fghtlng tor
We are fighting for what we oelleVe
and wish to be the rights OF mankind
and for the future peace ana security
of the world. To do this great thing
worthiIy and successfully, we must oe-
vote ourselves to service without re-
gard to profit or material aoVahIdse
and with an energy and lntelllsehCe
that will rise to the Level OF the eh. 81 =
prise itself. We must realize 10 the
full how great the task is and now
MANY things, how many KINDS ana
elements of capacity and service ana
self sacrifice it involves.
| "These. then, are the things We must
do and do well, besides fighting-the
things without which mere ngnIlnS
would be fruitless:
1--WE must not only supply abundant
food for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen, but also far a large
mart NJ the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, III
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting. ,
Eve must supply ships by the nun
dreds out of our shipyards 10 carry "
the other side Of the sea- SUBMARINES
ar no submarines, what will every Gay
be needed there, and abundant ma.e
rails out of our fields and our mines
and our factories. with Whlcn not only
to clothe and equip our own LoLSeD ~
Land and sea, but also to clothe ana
Sunnort our people for whom the gar
Iant fellows under arms can no longer
work. to help clothe and equip Ine
a armies with which we are co-oPerdI-
inc in Europe, and to keep the looms
and manufactures there in raw ma
terials: coal to keep the fires gong IN Ia
ships at sea, and in the FURNACES Vi
hundreds Of factories across the sec.
steel out of which to make arms eli;
ommunition both here and there: rams
Sor worn-out railways back of the
fiobtinp fronts; locomotives ana ron
mo stock to take the place OF those
every day going to pieces muiSs'
borses cattle for labor and Tor Ilil-
tarv service; everything with Wnlcn
the people of England and france anu
TtaIv and Russia have usually suppi ~
themselves, but cannot now aIo[o Zig
men, the materials or the
to make. .I,,oL;ro man
+bot orr industries, in farms, IN SHIP
Yards, in the mines, in the factories,
nust be made more prolific ana NOR
aficient than ever, and that tney mus
no more economically managed anu
better adapted to the particular re-
onirements of our task than they nave
been: and what / want to say Is lhae
the men and the women VINO oeN t,s
their thought and their energy 70 InS
th;,,as will be serving the country and
cnndycting the fight for peace ana
freedom Just as truly and just as ei
factiveIv as the men on the Dattie IieIu
or in the trenches. The lndustrlaI
forces of the country, men ana women
aIilre will be a great national, a gfeaI
International service army-a notaDle
and honorable host engaged III ln9
service of the nation and the Wollu
the efficient friends and saVlors VI
free men everywhere. Tnousahus,. . m%s
hnndreds of thousands of men otnerS
r,jse liable to military service VIII OF
right and of necessity be excused Irono
the service and be assigned TO the
Fundamental. sustaining work In the
fiaIda and factories, and mines anu
thew will be as much part OF the grsdI
natriotic, forces of the nation as the
men under fire.
Wilson's Appeal TO Farmers.
i''I take the liberty, therefore, OF au1
dressing this word 10 tne laL Os.,, IN
tha country and to all who work on
farms The supreme need or our ma
tion and of the nations with Whlcn we
ore co-operating is an abundance Oh
supplies, especially of foodstuHs: Inc
inportance of an adequate 1000 sup
Div, especially for the present year a 20
superlatiye. Without food allke Aot
the armies and the peoples now q.
war. the whole great enterprise upon
which we have embarked VIII preaK
down and fall.
The worlds food reserves are low.
Not only during the present emerg-
ency. but for some time after peace
shall have come, both our own people
and a large proportion OF the people
OF Europe must rely upon the mar
vests in America. Upon the farmers
in this country, therefore, In large
measure, rests the fate or the war
and the fate of the nations. May the
nation not count upon them 70 omit
no step that will increase the produc-
ton of their land, or that VIII Dring
about the most efficient co-operation
in the sale and distribution OF their
products? The time is short. II Is OF
the most imperative importance tnat
everything possible be done and done
Immediately to make sure Of large
harvests. / call upon young men ana
old men alike and upon the aole-
bodied boys OF the land to accept ana
act upon this duty-to turn in hosts
10 the farms and make certain that
no palms and no labor Is lacking IN this
great matter.
II particularly appeal to the farm :
ers of the south TO plant abundant
foodstuffs as well az cotton. They can
show their patriotism In no better or
rar,.n sruxyfncfver Waw than by rGSigt-