The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-03
Farmers, Miners and All Other Citizens
Must Help the Government in
Prosecuting War - President Appeals

t People and a large proportion of th
people OF Europe must rely upon tn
r harvests in America. Upon the farm
ers or this country, therefore, in larg
measure, rests the fate of the war an
: The fate of the nations. Nav the M
ton not count upon them to omit n,
step that will increase the produetio,
: ftheir land or that will bring abou
: the most effectlal cooperation in tn,
sale and distribution of their nro
ducts Inc time is short. 1t is o
the most imperative importance tina
everything possible be done and don,
Immediately to make sure of lare,
harVests. call upon young men ant
cid alike and upon the able bodied
boys of the land to accept and act
upon this duty,--to turn in hosts tc
the farms and make certain that nc
pains and no labor is lacking in this
great matter.
/ particularly appeal to the farmers
of the south to plant abundant food
stutfs as well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resist
Ing the great tempetation of the pres
ent price of cotton and helping, help
ing upon great scale, to feed the ma :
ton and the peoples everywhere who
are fighting for their liberties and for
our own. The variety of their crops
Will be the visible measure of their
comprehension Of their national duty.
| The government of the United
States and the governments of the
several states stand ready to COOPER
| ate-' They will do everything possible
to assist farmers in securing an ade-
| quate supply of seed, an adequate
force of laborers when they are most
needed, at harvest time and the means
Of eXpediting shipments of fertilizers
and farm machinery, as we'll as of the
crops themselves when harvested. The
course of trade shall be as unhamper-
ed as it Is possible to make it and
there shall be no unWarranted man
ipulation of the nations food supply
by those who handle it on it's way to
the consumer. This is our opportun-
ity to demonstrate the efficiency of
a great democracy and we shall not
fall short of it!
This let me say to the middlemen
of every sort, whether they are ham
ding our foodstuffs or our raw. ma
terials of manufacture or the products
Of our mills and factories The eyes
OF the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for
signal service, efficient and disinter-
ested. The country expects you, as il
expects all others, to forego unusual
profits, to organize and expedite ship
ments of supplies of every kind, but
especially of food, with an eye to the
service you are rendering and in the
spirit of those who enlist in the ranks,
for their people, not for themselves.
shall confidently expect you to de-
serve and win the confidence of peo-
pie of every sort and station.
To the men who run the railways
OF the country, whether they be man
ayers or operative employees, let me
say that the railways are the arteries
of the nations life and that upon them
rest the immense responsibility of
seeing to it that those arteries suffer
no obstruction of any kind, no inefI-
cheney or slackened power. To the
merchant let me suggest the motto
Small profits and quick service" and
to the shipbuilder the thought that the
life of the war depends upon him. The
food and the war supplies must be
carried across the seas no matter how
many ships are sent to the bottom
The places of those that go down
must be supplied and supplied at
once. To the miner let me say that
he stands where the farmer does: the
work of the world waits on him. If
he slackens or fails, armies and
statesmen are helpless. He also is
enlisted in the great service army. The
manufacturer does not need to be
told, I hope. that the nation looks to
him to speed and perfect every pro-
cess; and | want only to remind his
employees that their service is abso-
lutely indispensable and Is counted on
by every man who loves the country
and it's liberties.
Let me suggest, also, that everyone
who creates or cultivates a garden
helps, and helps greatly, to solve the
problem fthe feeding Of the ma
tons; and that every housewife who
practices strict economy puts herself
in the ranks of those who serve the
nation. This is the time for America
to correct her objectionable fault of
wastefulness and extravaganza Let
every man and every woman assume
the duty of careful, provdent use and
expenditure as a public duty, as
dictate of patriotism which no one can
now expect ever to be excused or for
given for ignoring.
In the hope that this statement of
the needs of the nation and of the
world in this no urof supreme crisis
may stimulate those to whom il
comes and remind all who need re-
minder of the solemn duties Of a time
such as the world has never seen he