The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
THE DECISION FOR WAR

THE DECISION FOR WAR
 necessary to organize for the job The road be short far The decision may be followed by tremend ous internal changes the task be accomplished almost before it is realized
 cannot be said that country been stampeded into war Never nation to conflict had hoped so erveny to remain at with mankind Never had nation ruler of frher mind keep his country than America had in Woodrow Wilson.
 Ye after three years the bellgerens by vote of Congress that we'll nigh unanimous There individual feeling for but this feeling has been strong enough to powerful movement The almost negative conduct of the peace element itself proof that the mind of America is for war.
 It is of the nature of strong conviction to inspire those who entertain it powerful conviction leads hesitation and inaction. }i
 European countries entered without any full knowledge of what modern is like They neither under stood how slow is how deadly s Thay did not fore the comprehensive sacrifices would be demanded had very wide the social domestic changes that would take place. t trade destroyer unrealized there is opinion about the of the war; in America expressed the assertion that this of kings that existed at the will o kings and partly for the purpose of queng domestic sen ment for revolution existent in all the European states
 Nobody saw, at first with clearness that this of kings would be the greatest destroyer of autocacy that entered the world As the days rolled incident upon other proved that arocrac paying great price The cu of this belief with the fall of They invoked the word they called into being the greatest army Russia One push from the army boot and they done. I
  Astocacy everywhere long used odeness long without any real business too fat for the ob too sohu for the work De done, and it has been displaced
 The begerent states have been substituting for weaker institutions and weaker forms stronger and virie
 Kings stood in the way of victory They displaced Dsorganzed wealth stood in the victory twas spac ed Competitive raroadng stood in the way of victory Ma onazed raroadng substituted The large voluheo the liquor traffic stood in the way of victory The traffic pro- ! hibted, or restricted sf.
 The lack of unity nindustrial operations stood in the way victory Government took the necessary plants enlist ed the they enlisted to be soldiers fair play between individuals and the stae the process of war accelerated ff7
 War Europe has been touchstone for testing of stutions Should endure for any length of me will be here
 This country without it's useless elements which will the way victory They will eliminated for nothing will permitted stand in the way the organ zation for victory.
 American railroads break down private control as the British railroads did, the remedy has precedent
 If attempt to monopoze food did in every country in Europe the precedents for the remedy esab lshed
 These will be days when leadership real leadership must to the front days when psuedo leadership must take back seat Weak institutions will superseded strong All this will happen here it has happened elsewhere imperative obligation for victory.
 The United States goes into conflict little overweight little out of It will out of the conflict without of surplus esh strong vigorous organized every limb and muscle, it's youth renewed, it's future
 In the days to it will be the proudes the young We in the that made the world the that organized industry the that taught people, that there work than done that need asociey dominated by wasefu autocracy way that the natural energies and productive powers mankind deprived of their full and value We war world democracy"
 The trumpets sounding challenge the manhood of America. Let the response be generous. .sa
 GETTING IN A CROP
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