Milford chronicle., 1917-04-20
WILSON APPEALS
FOR UNITY OF ALL
Says Supreme Test Of Nation
Has Come.
FIGHTING FOR MANKIND

I'VE Must Speak and Act Together"
Says President Wilson in Personal
Appeal.
In a personal appeal addressed
| TO his feliow-countrymen, President
Wilson calls upon every American
citizen-man, woman and clill-
| to join together u make the ma
ion a unit i0r the preservation
OF its ideals and for triumph Of de-
mocracy in the world war.
The supreme test OF the nation has
1 come" says the address. I'VE must
all speak. act and serve together"
The address follows:
My Fellow-Countrymen:
The entrance of our own beloved
/ country into the grim and terrible war
! Tor democracy and human r gntS
which has shaken the world, creates SO
many problems OF national life and ac-
tiOn which call for immediate cOnsid-
eratiOn and settlement that | hope you
will permit me to address to you a
few words of earnest counsel ami ap
peal with regard tO them.
Fight for Rights Of Mankind.
We are rapidly putting our navy up.
on an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip a g. eat ar
my, but these are the simplest parts
OF the great task to wntcn we nave
addressed ourselves. There Is not a
single selfish element. so far as !
can see, In the cause we are fighting
for. We are figluing for what We O.
lieve and wish to be the righ of m-n
kind and for the future peace and Sc
curity OF the world. To do his great
thing worthily and successfully, W
must devote ourselves to the Sc "
ice without regard to profit or mi
teral advantage and with an enc g.
and intelligence that VIII r.se to IN
level of the enterprise itself. We must
realize to the full how great t. ia k
kinds and elements OT capacity and
service and selfsacrifce ii tnvO YES.
These, then, are the things we must
do and do well, besides hghung-the
things without which met e fighting
would be fruitless:
only for ourselves and tLr our arm es
and our seamen. but also for a lATg
part of the nations with whom we now
have made common cause, in WIOse
support and by whose sides we shall
be fighting.
Must Supply Ships by the Hundreds.
We must supply ships by the ful.
dreds out of our shipyards 10 carry TO
the other side of the sea, submarines
or no submarines, what every day Will
be needed there and abundant mater
ais 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 long
er work: to help clOthe and equ p the
ing in Europe, and to keep the looms
and manufactures there IN raw m
terial: coal to keep the fires going in
ships at sea and in the iurnac /
hundreds OF factories across the sea;
steel out of which to make arms and
rails for wOrn-Out railways back II
the fighting fronts; locomotives and
rolling stock to take the place Of those
every day going to pieces; mules 1
horses, cattle for labor and for mill |
tary service. everything with which /.
the people of England and France and I
Italy and Russia usually have supplied |
themselves, but cannot now anOrd the I
men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
1t is evident to every thinking man
that our industry and on the farms, |
D.
factories, must be made more prolific /
and more efficient than ever and tnat /
they must be more economically man. ]
aged and better adapted to the par /
ucular requirements Of our task tnan .
they have been; and what I want to 4
say is that the men and the women /
who devote their thought and their .
energy to these things will be serv |
ing the country and conducting the /
fight for peace and freedom just as
truly and just as effective y as the /
men on the battlefield or in the trench.
es. The industrial forces Of the coun
try, men and women alike, Will be
great national, a great international.
service army--a notable and hOnOrei /
host engaged in the service OF the ma
ton and the world. the efficient friends
and saviOrs of free men everywhere.
nay hundreds of thcu
sands, Of men otherwise liable to mill
-ary service will of rig. and Of neces.
sity be excused from that service ami
TO the fundamental, sustain
Ing work af the fields and factories
and mines, and they will be as mu h
part Of the great patriotic fore Ct The
nation as the men under fire.
Must Have Food or Enterprise Fails.
l take the liberty. therefore, OF ad.
iressing this word 10 the farmers OF
he country and to all who work on
The farms The supreme need II our
lwn nation and of the Ia MS wien
which we are cooperating, is an abul-
lance Of supplies, and especially OF
'oodstuffs. The importance of an ade-
luate food supply, especially for. the
present year, Is superlat!ve. WithOut
abundant food alike for the aim es
and the peoples now al war, the wAo e
yreat enterprise npon which we have
Embarked will break down and fai..
The worlds food reserves are low.
Not only during the present emef gem
", but for some time after peace snail
lave come. both our own people and
! large proportion Of the people OF
europe must rely upon the harves,s n
America.
Upon the farmers Of this country,
therefore,. in large measure, rests tue
ate of the war and tire fate II the
lations. May the natiCn not count
lpon them to omit no step that WI |
Increase the production of their land
n that will bring about the. mes
,efaotua1 co-onaratiOn in the sale and