Arizona republican., 1917-04-16
The address follows:


 My fellow country men:
 ''The entrance of our beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world, creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate con- sideratiOn and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words Of earnest counsel ard appeal with regard to them.
 We are rapidly putting our navy upon 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 @ single selfish element. so far as I 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 fol the future peace and security of the world. To do this great thing worthily and suc- cesSfully we must devote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or material advantage and with an energy and intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself We must realize to the full, how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of capacity and service and self sac rifice it involves.
 These. then, are the things We must do well, besides fighting-the things without which mere fighting would be eruitless:
 We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for cur armies and our seamen not only but also for large part of the nations with whom we have now made common cause. in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting
 We must supply ships by the hundreds out of our ship yards to ! carry to the other side of the sea submarines or no submarines. what will every day be needed there and abundant materials 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 peo- ' pie for whom the gallant fellows under arms can no longer work. to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are cooperating in Europe, and to keep the looms and manu- factories there in raw material; coal : to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel out
 
 tion, both here and there; rails for worn out railways hack of the fight 1 ing fronts; locomotives and rolling l stock to take the place of those every 1 day going to pieces: mules. horses, | cattle for labor and for military ser 1 vice; everything with which the peo- 1 pie of England and France and Italy l and Russia have usually supplied themselves but cannot now afford the men. the materials or the machinery 1 to make.
 Tt is evident to every thinking mat 1 that our industries, in farms. in shin yards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more 1 efficient than ever and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they l have been; and what I want to say | IS that the men and the women who 1 devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the | country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and | just d effectively as the men on the battlefield CT in the trenches. The in <, dustrial forces of the country. men and women alike, will be a great ma tona!. T great international service army-a notable and honored host l (Continued on Page Three)