The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-02
Following are Excerpts
From Wilson's Address

Sin these days of our supreme
trial, when We are sending humid
reds of thousands of our young
men across the seas to- serve a great
cause, no true man who stays be-
hind to work for them and sustain
them by his labor will ask himself
what he is personally going to make
out of that labor. No true pa
triot will permit himself to take
toll of their heroism in money or
seek to grow rich by the shedding of
their blood. He will give as freely
and with as unstinted self-sacrifice
as they. When they are giving their
lives will he not give at least his
money?
81 hear it insisted that NOR,
than a just price, more than Al
price that will sustain our indust
rles. must be paid; that it is neces-
sary to pay very liberal and un,,s-
ual profits in order to stimulate
production: that nothing but pecu-
MARY rewards will do it-rewar,ls
paid in money. not in the mere lib
GRAFTON of the world. I take It
for granted that those argue thus
do not stop to think what that
means.
.'Do they mean that you must b.
paid. must be bribed. to make your
contribution, Il contribution that
costs YOU neither a drop of blood
nor tear, when the whole world
is i'll travail and men everywhere
depend upon and call to you to
bring them out of bondage and
make the world fit place to live
in again amidst peace and Justice {?
Your patriotism is of the same
self denying stuff as the patriotism
OF the men dead or manned on the
fileds of France or else it is no
patriotism at all. Lett us never
speak, then, of profits and of pa
trlotlsm in the same sentence. but
face facts and meet them.
Many grevious burden of tax
alton will be laid on this nation, in
thiSgeneration and in the next. to
pay for this war; let us see to it
that for every dollar that is taken
from the peoples pockets it shall
be possible to obtain a dollar 5
worn of the sound stuffs they need.
Let me turn for moment to
the shipowners of the United States
and the other ocean carriers whose
example they have followed and
ask them if they realize what
obstacles, what almost insuperable
obstacles, they have been putting
in the way Of the successful prose.
cution of this war by the ocean
freight rates they have been exact
ing. They are doing everything
that high freight charges can do to
make the war failrue, to make It
impossible.
81 am not questioning motives.
! am merely stating a fact. and
stating it in order that attention
may be fixed upon it. The fact
is that those who have fixed war
freight rates have taken the most
effective means in their power to
defeat the armies engaged against
Germany. When they realize this.
we may, 1 take it for granted.
count upon them to reconsider the
whole matter. 1t is high time.
Their extra hazards are covered by
war-risk insurance.
81 know, and you know, what
response to this great challenge of
duty and of opportunity the ma
ton will expect of you; and 1
know what response you will make.
Those who do not respond, who do
not respond in the spirit of those
who have gone t., give their lives
for lis on bloody fields far away,
may safely be left to be dealt with
by opinion and the law, for the
law must Of course command these
things.