The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-04-19
WILSON SPEAKST0 NATION
Urges EVERY MAN WOMAN AND
CHILD TO STAND TOGETHER.
Appeals Especially to Farmers.-Ef-
ficiency and Loyalty Everywhere is
Crged.-Practice Economy.

ficiency and Loyalty Everywhere is
Crged.-Practice Economy.
Washington, April 15.-President
Wilson tonight in an address to his
countrymen called upon every Ameri-
can citizen-man, woman and child
to join together to make the ma
ton unit for the preservation Of its
ideals and for triumph of democracy
in the world war.
The supreme test Of the nation
has come" says the address. I'VE
must all speak, act and serve to-
gether.'
The president urges all the people
to concentrate their energies, prac-
tice economy, prove unselfish and
demonstrate efficiency.
He appealed to the farmers with
emphasis on his words and partlcu-
larly to the farmers of the South, to
plant foodstuffs. The Southern far
mers, he said, can show their pa
triotism in no better or more con-
vincing way than by resisting the
great temptation of the present price
of cotton and helping to feed the ma
tions and the peoples everywhere
fighting for their liberties and for
our own
The address follows:
Presidents Address.
"My fellow countrymen:
The entrance of our beloved coun-
try into the grim and terrible war
for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
so many problems of national life
and action which call for immediate
consideration and settlement that l
hope you will permit me to address
to you a few words of earnest coun-
sci and appeal with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip great
army, but these are the simplest parts
for the great task to which We have
addressed ourselves. There is not
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 man
kind and for the future peace and Sc
curity of the world. To do this great
thing worthily and successfully we
must devote ourselves to the service
without regard to profit or material
advantage and with an energy and
intelligence that will rise to the level
of the enterprise itself. We must
realize to the fullest how great the
task is and how many things, how
many kinds and elements of capacity
and service and self sacrifice it in
wolves.
Things to Be Done.
These. then, are the things we
must do and do we'll, besides fighting
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
1--WE must supply abundant food
for ourselves and for our armies and
our seamen, not only but also for a
large part of the nations with whom
we have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose aid we
shall be fighting. =
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines, wha@ will
every day be needed there, and
abundant materials out of our fields
and our mines and our factories with
which, not only to clothe and equip
our own forces on land and sea but
also to clothe and support our peo-
pie for whom the gallant fellows un-
der arms can no longer work, 10 help
clothe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating in Europe
and to keep the looms and manufac-
tories there in raw materials: Goals
to keep the fires going in ships at sea
and in the furnaces 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
front; locomotives and rolling stocE
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 France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
selves but cannot now afford the men.
the materials or the machinery to
make.