Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-20

MY Fellow Countrymen:
The entrance of beloved country into the grim
and terrible for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates many problems
Of national life and action which call for immediate
consideration and settlement that hope will permit
to address to few words of earnest counsel and
appeal with regard to them.
We rapidly putting our navy upon an effective
footing and about to create and equip great
army these the simplest parts Of the task
to which have addressed ourselves.
There is not single selfish element, so far as can
see, in the cause 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
this great thing worthily and successfully
must devote ourselves service without regard to
profit or material advantage and with energy and
intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise
itself.
We must realize to the full how great the task is and
how many things, how many kinds and elements of
capacity and service and sef-sacrifce 1t involves.
THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE
These then, are the things must do and do we'll,
besides hghting-the things without which mere fight
ing would be fruitless:
We supply abundant food for ourselves and for
our armies and seamen not only, but also for
part of the nations with whom we have now made
common cause in whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
We must supply ships by the hundreds out Of our
shpyards to to the other side OF the sea- subma
rines or no submarines what will day be needed
there abundant materials out of our fields and our
mines factories with which not only to clothe
and equip our forces land and sea- but also to
clothe and support our people for whom the gaant
fellows under longer work, to help clothe
and equip the armies with which cooperating in
Europe and keep the and manufactures there
in raw Materials coal keep the fires going in ships
at sea and in of hundreds of factories
across the sea- steel of which to make arms ana
ammunition both here and there; rails for worn-out
railways back of the firing fronts locomotives ana
rolling take the place of those every day going
to pieces mules cattle for labor and for mill
tary service everything with which the people OF Eng
land and France Italy and Russia have usually sup
piled themselves but cannot now afford the men, the
materials or the machinery to make
EVERY SHOULDER TO WHEEL.
1t is evident to every thinking man that our indus
tries in FARMS shipyards. in the mines in the facto-
res must be prolific and more efficient than
ever they must be economically managed
and better adapted to the particular requirements OF
our task they have been, and what want 10 say
is that the and the women who devote their
thought and energy to these things will be serving
the country and conducting the fight for peace and
freedom just truly and just effectively as the men
on the battlefelds or in the trenches
The industrial forces of the country men and women
alike will be great national great industrial SER
vice armya notable and honored host engaged in the
service of the nation the world the efficient friends
| and saviors of free men everywhere
Thousands nay, hundreds OF thousands OF men other
wise liable to military service will of right and OF ne
cessity be excused that service and assigned to
the fundamental sustaining work of the fields and FAC
tories and mines and they will be as much part OF
the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under
fire.
SPECIAL APPEAL TO FARMERS.
take the liberty. therefore, of advising this worq
to the of the country and to all who work on
the farms:
The supreme need Of our nation and of the ma
tions with which cooperating is an abundance
of supplies and especially Of foodstu6s.
| The Importance Of adequate food supply, espe-
| cally for the present year, is superlatve
without abundant food. alike for the armies and the
neopes now at war; the whole great enterprise upon
which we have embarked will break down and fall
The worlds food reserves low.
Not only during the present but for some
time after peace shall have both our own people
and large proportion of the people of Europe must
rely upon harvests in America.
IJpon the of this country therefore, In large
measure rests the Of the and the fate OF the
nations.
NAV the nation not count upon them to omit no step
that will increase production of their land that VIII
bring about the eectual cooperation IN the SAFE
and distribution Of their food products?
The time is short.
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