Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-03

teh'uis dtoNg every line or human
betterment. Questions Of wages and
! hours OF labor and Industrial read
justmont have found a solution which
gives to the toiler new dignity and
a new sense Of social and economic
security. l beg you to feel that nv
support has not been lacking and the
government has not failed at anv
point in granting every Just request
advanced by YOU and Your assistants
In the name Of the American worker.
NO one who is not blind can fail
10 see that the battle line of democ-
racy for America stretches to>ay
from the fields of Flanders to every
mousse and workshop where toiline,
upward striving men and women are
counting the trea assures Of right and
justice and liberty which are being
| threatened by our present enemies.
1t has not been a matter Of sur
Prise to me that the leaders in certain
groups nave sought TO ignore our
grievances against the men who have
equally mlsled the German people.
Iheir lnslstence that nation whose
rights have heen grossly violated
whose citizens have been foullv rlir-
derad under their own flag. whose
nelghbors have been invited to join in
making conquest of its territorv
whose patience in pressing tho claims
Of justice and humanity has been met
with the most shameful poliry Of
turbulence and treachery. their insis-
tence that a nation so outraged does
! not know its own mind, that it has no
comprehensive reason for defending
itself. or for joining with all its might
IN maintaining q free future for il :
self and its ideals, is of piece with
thelr DEAFNESS to the oft-repeated
statement Of our national purposes.
is IT, perhaps, that these forces OF
antagonism have not yet learned to know
| the voice of that America we love and
serve? 1t may we'll be that those among
us who stand ready to forward tho nIa,s
OF aggression bred in secret do not under
etaho the language of democracy when
II procialms the purposes of war in terms
/ Oh peace for the peoples that shall be
untroubled by those to whom men are hut
the pawns in their struggle for power ann
gain. But true Americans, those who
toll here for home and the hone of b.ttes
things. whose lifted eyes have caught
the vision of a liberated world. have said
tnat OF the policy of blood and iron there
shall be an end and that equal Justice
4, which is the heart of democracy, shall
rule in its stead
May not these who toll and those who
have made common cause of the larger
I hope for the masses of mankind take re-
newed heart as they think on those DAYS
when America has taken Its stand for the
rights of humanity and the fellowship Of
social and international Justice?
Sincerely yours.
WOODROW WILSON"
Those Who Will Speak
Among the speakers at the conference
will be Samuel Gompers. John Hall. pres
ident Of the Minnesota State Federation
of. Labor; Charles Edward Russell. John
H. Walker president of the Illinois State
Governor Burnquist of Minnesota. John
Spargo, John Lind, Rose Pastor Stokes.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. William English
Walling, Hugh Frayne of New York
eastern representative Of American Fed
Grafton Of Labor; Frank E. Wolfe. W. j.
Client Max Frederick Meyer, professor
of psychology at University OF Missouri
A NJ Simons. editor of a Socialist week
ly, who has resigned from the Socialist
party. and Winfield r. Gaylord. first So
cialist state senator elected in Wiscon-
sin, who also has resigned from the par