The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-07
PRESIDENT WILSON'S APPEAL
To the Farmers, Also to the Men, Women
and Children on the Farms

of every sort, whether they are
handling our food stuffs er our raw
materials of manufacture or the
products of our mills and factories:
The eyes of the country will be Is.
pecially upon you. This is your OPP.
portunity for signal service, efficient
and disinterested. The country ex.
poets you, as it expects all others
to forego unusual profits, to organize
and expedite shipments of supplies
of every kind, but especially of food
with an eye to the service you are
rendering and in the spirit of those
who enlist in the ranks, for their
people, not for themselves. l shall
confidently expect you to deserve
and win the confidence of people of
every sort and station.
To the men who run the railways
of the country, whether they be
managers or operative employees, let
me say that the railways are the
arteries of the nations life and that
upon item rest the immense respon-
sibility of seeing to it that those
arteries suffer no obstruction of any
kind, no inefficiency or slackened
power To the merchant let me sug-
gest the motto, Small profits and
quick SERVICE" and to the ship
builder the thought that the life of
the war depends upon him The food
and the war supplies must be carried
across the seas no matter. how many
ships are sent to the bottom. The
places of those that go down must
be supplied and supplied at once.
To the miner let me say that he
stands where the farmer does; the
work of the world waits on him. If
he slackens or fails, armies and
enlisted in the great service army
The manufacturer does not need to
be told, hope, that the nation looks
to him to speed and perfect every
process; and I want only to remind
his employees that their service is
absolutely indispensable and is
counted on by every man who loves
the country and it's liberties.
Let me suggest, also, that every
one who creates or cultivates a
garden helps, and helps greatly, to
solve the problem of the feeding of
the nations; and that every house,
wife who practices strict economy
puts herself in the ranks of those
who serve the nation. This is the
time for America to correct her I'M
fault of wastefulness and
Let every man and
every woman assume the duty of
careful, prOvident use and expendi- |
ture as public duty, as q dictate of
patriotism which no one can now
expect ever to be excused or forgiven
FOR ignoring.
In the hope that this statement of |
he needs of the nation and of the |
world in this hour of supreme crisis |
nay stimulate those to whom it |
zones and remind all who need re-
hinder of the solemn duties Of
line such as the world has never
'een before; l beg that all editors
md publishers everywhere will give
Is prominent publication and as
vide circulation as possible to this
appeal. | venture to suggest. also,
o all advertising agencies that they
would perhaps render very sub
itantial and timely service to the
country if they would give 1t wide
pread repetition. And l hope that
lergymen will not think the theme
# it an unworthy or inappropriate
ubject of comment and homily from
heir pulpits.
THE SUPRE4LE TEST OF THE
NATION HAS COME. WE MUST
NIL SPEAK, ACT AND SERVE
WOODROW WILSON.