The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-05-04

pie of the United States;
My Fellow Countrymen. The en-
trance of our beloved country INTO
the grim and terrible war for dCmoc-
racy and human rights ~i''E has
shaken the world creates so many
problems of national life and action
which call for immediate cOnsldera~
ton and setlemen that / hope you
will permit me to address you few
words of earnest counsel and appeal
with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our nav
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 single selfish element 50 far
as | can see, in the cause we are fight
ng for We are fighting for what
we believe and wish to be the rights
OF mankind and for the future peace
and welfare of the world. TO do this
great thing worthily we must devote
ourselves to the service without re-
gard to profit or material adraAi.GG
and with an energy and intelligence
hat will rise to the level of tie en-
terprise itself We must reali,e toI
tie full how great the task is, and
how many things, how many Kinds
and elements of capacity and service
and self sacrificing it involves
"These, then, are the things we
must do and do well besides fl ht-
lng-the things without which 10
ruere fighting would be fruitless; We
must supply abundant fruit for our
selves and for our armies and our
seamen and also for a large part of
the nations with whom we have made
common cause, in whose support and
by whose sides we are fighting
1--WE must supply ships by the hun.
dreds out of our ship yards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines, what will ev-
cry day be needed there and abund-
ant materials out of our fields and
our mines and our factories with
5 which not only to clothe and equip
S our own forces on land and sea. but
t Ialso to clothe and support our peo.
= pie for whom gallant fellows under
n AIMS can no longer work, to hell
n clothe and equip the armies witt
: which we are cooperating in Europe
o and to keep the looms and manufac
e turers there in raw materials: Goa
0 to keep the fires burning in tn,
ships at sea and in the furnaces o
S hundreds of factories across the sea
d steel out of which to make arms an,
i ammunition, both here and there; rail
S FOR worn out railroads back of tn
A 1ightlng fronts: locomotives an
l. rolling stock to take the places O
those every day going to pieces
mules, horses, cattle for labor an
for military service; everything wit
which the people of England Franc,
& Italy and Russia have usually sur
J. piled themselves, but cannot now a,
n ford the men, the material, or tn
machinery to make.
1T is evident to every thinking ma
'e that our industries in farms, in shi,
a Yards, in the mines, in the factorie
IL must be made more prolific and MOI
a efficient than ever, and that the
'e must be more economically manage
'e and better adapted to the particuls
a. requirements of our task than the
n nave been; and what | want to So
to is that the men and women who d
ly vote their thoughts and their eners
er to these things will be serving II
X country and conducting the fight f
RS peace and freedom just as truly al
Just as effectively as the men on Il
a battlefield or the trenches.
OF The industrial forces of the cou
ed try, men and women alike, will be
ar great national, a great information
by service army---a noted and honor
he host engaged in the service of the II
e" ton, and the world, the efficie
1t friends and savior of freemen ever
CT where. Thousands, nay, hundreds
rk thousands of men, otherwise liable
st military service will of necessity
err excused from that service and assil
e ed to the fundamental, sustaini
$" work of the fields and factories a
er mines and they will be as much D,
ur of the great patriotic forces of I
is nation as the men under fire.
on II take liberty therefore, of {
In dressing this word to the farmers
err the country and to all who work
to the farms. The supreme need of c
on own nation and of the nations W
which we are cooperating is an abu
ance of supplies. especially foodstu
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