The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-04-21
PRESIDENTS APPEAL MAKES
PUBLIC DUTY VERY PLAIN
My Fellow Countrymen

| Ny ftlioA NDuhttSmeNs
The entrance Of our own hplo, ed
country into the grim aud terrible war
for democracy aud human rights, which
has shaken the world, creates so many
problems of national life and action
which call for immediate consideration
aud settlement that | hope you will
permit me 10 address TO you few
words OF earneat counsel and appeal
With regard to them.
We are rapidly putting cur navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about TO create and equip great army
but these are the simplest parts for
the great task 10 which We have ad
dressed ourselves There II not a single
selfish element so far as | eau see. Ia
the cause We ar fiFhting for Ne are
lighting for what We believe and wish
To BE- the rights Of markind and for the
future peace and security Of the world
To do this great thing worthily aud
successfully We must devote ourselves
10 the service without regard 10 profit
or material advantage and with an
energy aud intelligence that will rise
90 the level Of the enterprise Itself We
must realize 60 the full how great the
task IL and how many things how
many kinds and elements Of capacity
aud service and self.saeriaee II h..
wolves.
These, then, are the things We must
do. and do we'll besides Sighting the
things without which mere fghting
would be fruiiless
We mast supply abundant food for
ourselves and for cur armies aud our
seamen not only. but also for large
part Of the nations with whom we have
now made common cause. In whose
support and by whose side se shall be
fighting
SundFeas OF ShIps keeded. .
We must supply ships by the hun.
dreds out Of our shlpyards TO carry to
the other side Of the sea, submarines
or no submarines, what will every day
be needed there, and abundan, ma.
terlals out of our fields and our mines
and our factories with which net only
to clothe and equip our own forces on
land and sea, but also 10 ciOthe and
support our people for whom the gal.
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work, 10 help Cloihe and equip the
armies with which We are cooperating
in Europe. and To keep the looms and
\ manufactures there In raw material,
coal "a keep the fires going In ships AZ
sea and In the furnaces Of hundreds Of
factories across the sea. steel out Of
which To make arms and ammunition
both here and there, rails for wora.out
railways back Of the fighting fronis;
locomotives and rolling stock to take
the place Of those every day going io
pieces. mules. horses. cattle for labor
aud for military service. everything
with which the people of England aud
France and Italy and Russia have
usually supplied themselves bat can.
not now afford the men. the materials
of the machinery 10 make
Il is evident 10 every thinking man
that our industries. on the faFms. In
the shipyarda, IN the mines, Ia the
factories must be made more prolific
and mere efficient than ever and that
they must be more economically man
aged and better adapted Ia the par
tieniaF requirements Of our task than
they have been aud what | want Ia
say Is that the men and the women who
devote their thought aud their energy
10 these things will be serving the
country and conducting the fight for
peace aud freedom Just as truly and
| Just as effectively as the men on the
battlefield or In the trenches The In.
dustrial forces Of the country, men and
women ALIKE. Will be great national,
a great international, service army
a notable and honored host engaged Ia
the service Of the nation and the world
the efficient friends and sayiorg of free
men everywhere. Thousands, nay
hundreds of thousands of meu other.
wise liable TO military service will Of
right aud of necessity be- excused from
that service and assigned 60 the funda.
mental. sustaining work Of the fields
and factories and mines, and they will
be as much part Of the great patriotic
forces Of the nation "a the men under
/ fire.
Appeals 10 All Farmers.
take the liberty, therefore, Of ad.
dressing ibis word to the farmers OF