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TO OUR ALLIES.
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able for the enlarged production of
toodstuffs, and much of this land can
be utilized as rapidly as labor can be
mobilized and facilities prepared for
opening it up for cultivation.
Millions of acres of the richest land
on earth are being drained and made
ready for the plow.
One hundred million acres of cut
over timber land in the South are
available, and the owners are COM
lbining their forces to bring about the
utilization of these vast areas for the
production of grain and cotton and
the grazing of livestock.
This is country of illimitable re-
sources. The human mind can scarce
lily grasp the reality of the vast sup
plies of coal and iron ore and copper
and zinc and lead and timber and
water-powers, equal to the needs,
when fully developed, of supporting
and giving employment to 5OO,0OO,OOO
people.
We are mobilizing the brain and
the Drawn of the nation to develop
to the utmost extent the utmost po-
|
| Along the Atlantic coast, the Gulf
coast and the Pacific coast shipyards
are springing into existence, and ships
of wood and ships of steel will be built
with an energy which the world never
before saw thrown into shipbuilding.
The railroad forces of the country
have been united in a great coopera-
tive system under which a few men
are handling nearly 250,00O miles of
railroads in order to produce the larg-
est possible results with the smallest
possible friction, so that a great arm,
may be gathered and trained and fed,
and that the materials for shipbuild-
ing and iron and steel production and
all of the vast activities of the nation
may be concentrated upon getting
ready for war.
1t will take little time for a full
realization of the mighty potentiali-
ties of this nation to be understood
either at home or abroad; but as no
other country on the face of the earth
combines such vast resources. such
ilIimitable sources for industrial and
agricultural development, with pop
ulation fairly homogeneous, despite
tine considerable number of Germans
still living here, so no other country
on earth has ever had the opportun-
ity to throw into world contest such
mighty power as this country is pre-
parng to develop.
| We may we'll stand with head un-
cowred with profound admiration for
the marvellous achievements of Eng
Ian and France and Italy and Bel
gint.
| je may well pause as we think of
tn: wonderful country of Russia
: :n-Spg off the yoke Of centuries of
FeIf of~.--, +n.--rn~~..sSS Penhelc>, un-
Ialk to bring its diverse elements into
| a homogeneous whole; but we may
fed that Russia will soon find itself
and that it will prove power for
good in this mighty world struggle.
! A nation which, in such times as it
has been passing through, could over
throw the autocratic power that for
centuries had ruled, and very nearly
ruined it, must have an inherent
strength and force which. will enable
the real men of Russia sooner or later
to unite all of it's clashing elements
into one solid, democratic organization
to stand by the side of this country
and of the other Allies in the mighty
struggle to make the world safe for
civilization.
Out of this fearful conflict there
will be born new and higher civili-
zation. The blood of the soldiers
which has fertilized the fields of the
earth shall blossom forth harvest of
higher and holier things, and no man
among all the Allies shall have died
in vain in this struggle which we
believe presages the coming of a
brighter day to all the world for all
time to come than any part of the
world has ever known before.
We have long believed that this
country has been fore-ordained of the
Almighty to play some great and
dominating part in shaping world af-
fairs.
We have repeatedly said that a
country of such limitless natural ad-
vantages, country which had demon
strated the power of men of different
nationalities to coalesce and here build
a great civilization was like a mighty
university, and to it people from all
the world had been coming to study.
Out of this great university have gone
influences for good which have stirred
the hearts of the people of every ma
ton. They have seen what liberty
of conscience and liberty of person
meant. They have seen the marvels
of a nation where every man had the
opportunity for advancement, for edu-
cation, where civil and religious lib
erty in their broadest sense were
known as nowhere else, and they have
learned from this great university the
meaning of these truths.
Germany saw the trend of the