The Carlisle independent., 1917-04-26
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 My fellow countrymen:
 ''The entrance of our own beloved country 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 1 hope you will permit me to address to you few words of earnest counsel 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 a great army, but these are the simplest parts Of the great task to which We have addressed ourselves.
 "There is not a single selfish ele- ment. so far as I 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.
 Devote Selves to Service.
 '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.
 "These, then, are the things we must do and do we'll besides fighting the things without which mere fight Epn xropTd ha frui+1oSS.
 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 sides we shall be fighting.
 Must Supply Ships.
 "We 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, 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 clothe and equip our 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 manufactories there in raw materials: coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the fur naces across the sea steel out of which to make arms and ammunition both here and there; rails for worn- out railroads back of the fighting fronts; locomotives 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 France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied them selves, but cannot now afford the men, the materials or the machinery to make.
 Need Greater Efficiency.
 "It Is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in ship pards. in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever, and that they must he more economically managed and better adapted to the particular re- quirements of our task than they have been; and what I 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 free dom just as truly and just as effective ly as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches.
 Appeal to Farmers.
 ''Thousands nay hundreds of thou sands of men otherwise liable to mili tary service. will of right and of neces sity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental. sustain ing work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces oi the nation as the men under fire
 q take the liberty, therefore. o addressing this word to the farmer' Of the country and to all who worl on the farms. The supreme need o