The Red Cloud chief., 1917-04-19
WILSON URGES UNITY
FOR SUCCESS OF THE WAR
President Makes Address to the Peo-
pie on their Wartime Conduct
Appeal Should BE Read by
All Citizens and Needed

Appeal Should BE Read by
All Citizens and Needed
Washington, April 15-In a person
al appeal addressed tonight to his fell
low countrymen, President Wilson
calls upon every American citizen
man, woman and child-to Join toge-
ther to make the nation a unit for the
preservation Of it's ideals and for tri-
upmh of democracy in the world war.
THE supreme test of the nation has
came" says the address. "We must
all speak, act and serve together"
Putting the navy On a war footing
and raising a great army are the SIM
plest parts of the great task ahead,
the president declares, and he urges
all the people with particular empha-
sis on his words to the farmers, to
concentrate their energies, practice
economy, prove unselfishness and dem
onstrate efficiency. The address fol-
lows:-
my fellow countrymen:
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 considera-
ton and settlement that I hope you
will permit me to address you a few
words of earnest counsel and appeal
with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting u navy
upon an effective war fotting and are
about to create and equip a great
army, but these are the simplest parts
of the great task to which we have ad-
dressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element, so far as I 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 de-
vote ourselves to the service without
regard to profit or material advan-
tage and with an energy and intelli-
gence 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 ell
ements of capacity and service and
self-sacrifice it involves. These, then
are the things we must do and do well
besides fighting-the things without
which fighting would be fruitless.
"We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not alone but also for a large
part of the nations with whom we have
now made common cause, in whose sup
port and by whose sides we shall be
fighting.
Must Supply Allies.
"We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our ship yards, to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rine or no submarine, what will ev-
cry day be needed there and abundant
material out of u fields and our
mines and our factories with which
not only to clothe and equip our own
forces on land and on sea, but laso to
clothe and support u people for
whom the gallant fellows under arms
can no longer work, to help clothe and
equip the armies with which we are
cooperating. in Europe and to keep the
fires going in ships at sea and in the
furnaces of hundreds of factories a
cross the sea; steel out of which to
make arms and ammunition, both here
and there; rails for worn out railways
back of the fighting fronts, locomo-
tives and rolling stock to take the
place of those every day going to
pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor
n military purposes; everything
with which the people of England,
France, Russia and Italy have usual
ly supplied themselves, but acnnot
now afford the men, the material OF
the machinery to make.
ut is evident to every thinking mar
that our industries, in farms. in shin
va rIS in tha p,inac &, tLo r,@1-
must be made more prolific and more
efficient than ever and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
requirements of our task than they
have been; and what I want to say i
that the men and the women who de.
vote their thought and their ener.
gies to these things will be serving
their country and conducting the fight
for peace and freedom Just as trul,
and just as effectively as the men OF
the battlefield or in the trenches. The
industrial forces Of the country, mer
and women alike, will be a great ma,
%tional, a great international army OF
service-a notable and honored hos
engaged in the service of the natior
and the world, the efficient friend:
and saviors of free men everywhere
Thousands, nay, hundreds Of thous
ands of men otherwise liable to mill
|, tary service will of right and neces
sity be excused from that service ant
assigned to the fundamental, sustain
! ing. work of the fields and factorie.
and mines, and they will be as mucl
: part of the great patriotic forces O
the nation as the men under fire.
Addresses Farmers.
81 take the liberty therefore of ad
. dressing this word to the farmers O
the country, and to all who work O.
the farms: The supreme need of GU
own nation and Of the nations wit
which We are cooperating is an abun
dance of supplies, and especially O
foodstuffs: The Importance Of a