The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-16
We MUS All Speak, Act ant
Serve Together, Pres
ident Declares
MUST CARRY SUPPLIES
ACROSS THE WATERS
Emphasis Is Laid Upon the Necessity
Of Increased Food Production as Well
as Cotton = McAdoo Has Plans for
New Taxation.

as Cotton = McAdoo Has Plans for
New Taxation.
WASHINGTON, April ia call for
volunteers for a great service army to
help win the battles OF the nation aud
its allies against the German govern
ment was issued by President Wilson
last night. 1t was in the fern of an
appeal to my fellow-countrymen,
and it set forth the vital necessity for
the mobilization Of all the indus rial
forces of the country to produce the
things necessary to help the armies in
the field arG &c arships at sea.
"Thc supreme test of the nat,cn has
come, .oclare9 III, President. ''N"'
must all speak, act, and serve togetA
or. -
The address is taken here to show
that the President is more than ever
determined that the commerce Of the
world shall nol bc paralyzcd by the
| German submarine menace.
. The food and the war supplies must
| be carried across the seas, no matter
! how many ships are sent to the bot
/ tom, - he SAYS.
Specifically, the appeal is addressed
TO the farmers, the middlcmen of every
sort, those who run the railways. man
ayers and operative employees included:
the merchants, the ship builders and
lshlpyard workers the miners and those
who cultivate gardens Emphasis is
laid upon the necessity Of increased
food production, and the farmers Of the
south are urged to raise abundant food
stufts, as well as cotton
- II Tkout abundant food alike for
/ the armies and the peoples at war he
sad, - the whole great enterprise up
ON which we have embarked viii break
down and fail. =
There IS special appeal, perhaps q
note OF warning, in the address to the
Emiddlcmen
The eyes of the country will bc
ieNlcciaily upon You, they arc told
Tins IS your opportunity for signal
iSofvice, efficient aud dlslntcrested. Tho
country expects you, rs II expects al
others, to torego UNUSUAL profits, to or
game and expedite shipments of sup
piles OF every kind, but especially OF
1000, with an eve to---tfe- service- yu1
arc rendering and IN tap SKIRT. Of those
fWho chllsl II the ranks, Tor Their PEG
PIE, not Tor themselves. / shall con
- 'tAANt ~ Al
the CONFIDENCE CT people OF every sor
ana situation.
! 1t Is evident from the President
; ADDRESS that he has no faith III thu
View that the part to be played by thi
: nation III inc great war VIII be Target,
! passive:
experimenting the President s ap
d. peal to the nation administration sug
: scstlohS as TO possible new sources o
taxation through which to raise approx
lmatcly one-half of the estimated eos
of the first year of the war, 81 500 ,250
coo, were submitted by Secretary NJ,
= Adoo tonight to the senate finance con
, mlttec aud the house ways and mean
committees The other half of tn
: cost is 10 be provided by $4,000, 900
q GEO of the bonds to be issued.
Outstanding III the suggestions ar
. greatly increased income and cxcc>
y proht tax rates, the taxing of man
- imported articles now admitted free an
= stamp, liquor, amusement, sugar, coffe
tobacco, and automobile taxes. III