The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-04-17
BELIEVES EVERY
)NE SHOULD AID
President Issues an Appeal
to ALL Americans.
DEMOCRACY MUST TRIUMPH
Placing Navy on War Footing and
Raising Large Army Called Simple
Tasks Compared With Food Produc-
ton for United States and Allies.


ton for United States and Allies.
Washington. April l7,-President
Wilson has issued an appeal, address
ed to every American. calling for the
greatest measure of service in pro
ducing foodstuffs and supplies to car
ry on the war
To farmers especially the president
appeals that every farm may produce
the greatest possible amount Of food.
The appeal is as follows;
My fellow countrymen: The en-
trance 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 considera-
ton and settlement that l hope YOU
will permit me to address to you few
words of earnest counsel and appeal
with a regard TO them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
on an effective war footing and are
about TO create and equip great
army, but these are the simplest
parts of 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 lighting
for.
I'VE are fighting for what we be.
lieVe 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 de.
vote 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 EN-.
terprise itself
I'VE must realize to the fun how
great the task is and how many
things. how many kinds and elements
OF capacity and service and self-sac.
rifice it involves.
These, then. are the things we
must do and do we'll. besides fighting
the things without which mere fight.
ing would be fruitless.
Food Supply Great Necessity.
I'VE must not only supply abundant
food for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen, 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.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry "a
the other side of the sea, submarines
or no submarines, what will every day
be needed there, and abundant mate
rials 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 gal
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work.
I'VE must help clothe and equip the
armies with which We are co-operat
ing in Europe. and to keep the looms
and manufactures there in raw mate
rials, supply coal to keep the fires go
ing 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 wornout railways back of the
fighting fronts; everything which the
people of England and France anC
Italy and Russia have usually supplied
themselves, but cannot now afford the
men. the materials or the machinery
to make.
1T is evident to every thinking mar
that our industries, in farms, in ship
yards, in the mines, in the factories
must be made more prolific 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
What | want to say is, the men ant
the women who devote their though
and their energy TO those things will
be serving the country and conduct
ing the fight for peace and freedom
just as truly and just as effectivel,
as the men on the battlefield or in tn,
| trenches.
Part Of Great Patriotic Army.
"The industrial forces of the coun
try, men and women alike, will be ,
great national service army-a notable
and honored host engaged in the serv
ice of the nation and the world, th'
efficient friends and sayiors OF fre.
men everywhere.
Thousands, nay, hundreds of thou
sands, Of men otherwise liable to mill
tary service will Of right a1d of nc
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