The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-03

Pulaski, representative of the fores
service, have each received the fol
lowing letter from the state observes
al Boise, together with a copy of thu
proclamation of President Wilson ap
healing to the people to assist in pre-
pairing the country for war:
"There is inclosed herewith leaf
let containing an appeal of the presi-
dent of the United States to the PEG.
pie of the nation for their service iii
connection with the war in which the
country is involved
1T is requested that this appeal be
brought to the attention of as many
BILE. It is especially directed to those
engaged in farming operations, but
should be brought to the attention of
stock growers and miners as well.
Il trust that you will give it the
widest publicity possible"
President Makes Personal Appeal.
My Fellow Countrymen
The entrance of cur own beloved
war for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
so many problems of national life and
action which calls for immediate con-
sideration and settlement that | hope
you viii permit me to address to you
a few words of earnest counsel and
appeal with regard to them.
We are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip a great ar
my, but these are the simplest parts
OF the great task to which we have
addressed ourselves There is not a
single selfish element, so far as | 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 for the future peace and security
of the world. TO do this great thing
Worthily and successfully we must
devote ourselves to the service with
out regard to profit or material ad
vantage and with an energy and in
telligence that will rise to the level of
the enterprise itself. We must real
ize to the full how great the task is
and how many things, how many
kinds and elements of capacity and
service and self sacrifice, it involves.
These then, are the things we must
do, and do well, besides tighting,-
the things without which mere fight
ing would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our 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 hun
dreds out of our shipyards 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 clohte and equip olg own |
forces on land and sea but also to
clothe and support our people 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 manufactures there in +
raw material; coal to keep the fires
going in ships at sea and in the fur
naces of hundreds of factories across
the sea; steel out of which to make
arms and ammunition both here and |
there; rails for worn out railways |
back of the fighting fronts; locomo-
tives and rolling stock to take the |
place of those every day going to
pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor
and for military service; everything |
with which the people of England and |
ually supplied themselves but can not |
now afford the men, the materials, or
the machinery to make.
1t is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, on the farms, in
the shipyards, in the mines, in the
factories, must be made more proli-
fic and more efficient than ever and
that they must be more economically
managed and better adapted to the
particular requirements of our task
than they have been; and what want
to say is that the men and the women
who 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 as effectively as the men on |
the battlefield or in the trenches. The |
industrial forces of the country, men |
and women alike, will be a great ma
tiona, a great International, service
army,-a notable and honored host |
engaged in the service of the nation |
and the world, the efficient friends
and saviors of free men everywhere.
Thousands, nay, hundreds of thous-
ands, of men otherwise liable to mill
tary service will of right and of ne
cessity be excused from that service
and assigned to the fundamental, sus-
tanning work of the fields and factor
les and mines, and they will be as
,,ouch mart IF tha great patriOtic forces |