The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-20
APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDENT.

APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDENT.
The following appeal to the people
of the United States was issued to the
press by President Wilson, Monday.
Believing that it should be carefully
read, considered and the advice con-
tanned therein should be followed by
every man and woman in the land
who holds America dearer to their
hearts than any, other country under
the sun, the Gazette publishes the APP
peal in full, thus giving it that pub
Lefty that the president has request
ed:
MY fellow cOuntrvmen."
THE entrance of our beloved coun
try into the grim and terrible war
for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
so many problems of national life and
action which call for immediate con-
sideration and settlement that l hope
you will permit me to address you a
few words of earnest counsel and ap-
ptdl Will Ic6dIu W
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip great
army, but these are the simplest parts
of the great task to which We have
addressed ourselves. There is not
single selfish element, so far as can
see, in the cause we 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. To do this great thing
worthily and successfully we must
devote ourselves to the service with
out regard to profit or material ad-
vantage and with an energy and intel
ligence that will rise to the level OF
the enterprise itself. We must realize
to the full power how great the task
Is and how many things, how many
kinds and elements of capacity and
service and self sacrifice it involves.
These, then are the things we must
do and do we'll, besides f1ghting-the
things without which mere fighting
would be Ruthless
I'VE must not only supply abundant
and our seamen, but also for the large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry to
the other side of the sea, submarines
OF no submarines, what will every day
be decided there, abundant materials
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 the people for whom the gel
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work; to help clothe and equip tie
armies with which we are co-operat-
ing in Europe and to keep the looms
and manufactures there n raw ma
terial coal to keep the fires going in
ships at sea and in the furnaces of
hundreds of factories across the sea;
steel out of which o make arms and
ammunition, both here and there;
rails for the worn cut railroads back
of the fighting fronts locomotives and
rolling stock to take the places of
those every day going to pieces; mules
horses, cattle for labor and for mill
tary purposes; everything with which
the people of England, France, Italy
and Russia have usually supplied
themselves, but cannot now afford the
men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
at is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, in farms, in ship
yards, in the mines, in the factories,
must be made more and more prolific
and more efficient than ever, and that
they must be more economically man
aged and better adapted to the partic-
ular requirements of our task than
they have been; and what l want to
say is that the men and women who
devote their thought and their energy
to these things will be serving the
country and conducting the fight for
peace and freedom just as truly and
JUSL DIS ell6CtlNely dS tiic iich vi vi.
battlefield or in the trenches.
THE industrial forces of the coun
try men and women alike, will be a
great matt onal, great international
service army-a notable and honor
able host engaged in the service of the
nation and the world, the efficient
friends and saviours of freemen every
where. Thousands, nay, hundreds of
thousands of men otherwise liable to
ervice will of right and neces-
sity be excused from that service and
assigned to the fundamental, sustain
ing work of the fields and of the fac
tories and mines and they will be as
much a part of the great patriotic
forces of the nation as the men under |
fire.
Il take the liberty. therefore, of
this word to the farmers
OF the country and to all who work |
on the farms: The supreme need OF
our own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an album |
dance of supplies, and especially of I
roa1 et,ffc Tho ;vpporfouoo of ado-