Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-04-26

my Fellow CONFERENCE.-THE en-
trance of our own beloved country in.
to the grim, terrible war for democ-
racy and human rights which has shak-
en- the world, creates so many prob
lens of national life and action which
call for immediate consideration and
settlement that hope you will permit
me to address to you few words of
earnest counsel and appeal with regard
to them.
Armament a Simple Task.
1--WE are rapidly putting our navy
on an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip great
army, but these are the simplest parts
Of the great task to which we have
addressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element, so far as l can
see. in the cause we are fighting for.
We are fighting for what we believe
and wish to be the rights of mankind
and for the future peace and security
Of the world.
These then are the things we must
do and do we'll, besides Nightingale
things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
1--WE must not only supply abun-
dant food for ourselves and for our
armies and our seamen but also for a
large part of the nations with whom
whose support and Ey whose sides we
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out Of our shipyards to carry to
the other side Of the sea, submarines
or no submarines. what will every day
be needed there and abundant ma
terials out of our fields and our mines
and our factories with which not only
to clothe and equip our own forces on
land and sea but also to clothe and
support our people for whom the gal
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work, to help clothe and equip the
armies with which we are cooperating
in Europe to keep the looms and man.
ufactories there in raw material; coal
to keep the fires going on ships at sea
and in the furnaces in hundreds OF
factories across the sea; steel out of
which to make arms and ammunition
both here and there; rails for worn
out railways back of the fighting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
to take the place of those every day
going to pieces; mules. horses, cattle
for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people OF
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them.
selves but cannot now afford the men.
the materials or the machinery to
make.
More Efficiency Needed.
1T is evident to every thinking man
that our industries. in farms. in ship
yards, in the mines. in the factories
must be made more prolific and more
efficient than ever and that they must
be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re
quirements of our task than they have
been; and what want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy tt
these things will be serving tho coun
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just al
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches. The indus
trial forces of the country. men ant
women alike, will be great national
q great international reserve army
Q notable and honored host engaged IL
the service of the nation and tn,
world, the efficient friends and savior
Of free men everywhere. Thousands
nay, hundreds of thousands of mel
otherwise liable to military service
will of right and Of necessity be e1
cused from that service and assignee
to tho fundamental, sustaining work o
the fields and factories and mines
and they will be as much part Of tn
great patriotic forces of the nation q
the men under fire.
Addresses the Farmers.
II take the liberty therefore Of Al
dressing this word to the farmers {
the country and to all who work o
the farms. Tho supreme need Of on
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