Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-20

peace, and through the lack Of peace,
the sufferings of women have been
greater than the sufferings Of men.
1t must be. and they must help to
make it, he last chapter in the old
book of war and horror, destruction Of
dear homes, rapes, massacre and out
rage.
They must help to make it the
great n of the oppression of all
w~omanhood. In Europe, speaking gen-
orally, women still are held in thrall
by the old feudal system, and by help
ing in this war with all their strength
and all their hearts and all their souls
American women may do much to help
to break those chains.
eff freedom wins in this war politi-
cal emancipation will be achieved by
womanhood in all parts of the world.
ut is the fight of womanhood as
much as it is that of manhood. 1t has
liberated many evil forces; it will lib
crate many forces of benefcence.
Chiefest of them all will be the sane
and purifying force of womanhood.
unquestionably the allied nations rep
resent the impulse working toward the
freedom of all womanhood. The feudal
impulse is to keep ~womanhood in sub
jugation, in the background.
There is every reason in the world
why women in America should strive
to help, strive nightly. even were they
not involved through love of fathers,
sons n husbands who must join the
battle line, m by the love of their
own country, whose best traditions
and institutions would be threatened
by Il German victory.
NOW let me say one word to the
young American who has not enlisted
living in the greatest time of human
history. You are confronted by the
greatest opportunity God ever gave to
any human individual to help his fell
low men, to help poor. staggeringShu-
manity to a new and brighter future.
IF you do not do your duty now your
conscience all your life will trouble YOU.
If you do not do your duty now you
never will be able to hold up your head
among your fellow freemen in the days
to come. To the workingmen mong
you this must especially appeal, for to
the workingmen his war, the winning
of this war, means a new world, better
conditions a higher order.
The Workingman who fights in this
cause is fighting for all those ideals
which the b movement in all parts
of the world, in Germany as much as
elsewhere, has stood for since the
days of it's beginning.
up to date the young workers of
the old world AVE borne nobly their
part in the great struggle. The young
American workers who now are called
to help the fight may not all have the
privilege of joining in the marching
ranks. Indeed they must not all join
them. The worker at his bench may
be as useful as the soldier in his
trench.
All Can Help.
Especially will this be true Of work.
ers in your shipyards. Everything in
the great war now depends upon COM
munication and transport. In the face
OF the enormous destruction of ship
is continuing, n the world wide
range of this war. it is impossible to
do u best unless ship building prog
ress is accelerated, and there the work.
er of America becomes of vital world
Importance.
"And If the shipbuilder is a great
power in this vast war the farmer is
as great. When the ships are launched
there must be food with which to fill
their holds, SO that the people on this
side who so far have been forced to
bear the brunt of fighting may con-
niue at their task. To build ships and
raise potatoes, corn n wheat, there
is a truly patriotic rogram for the
young and old American worker, COM
monplace as it may sound. 1t is as
patriotic to till fields in these days as
it is to carry rifles.
WaeH, some uay, 1T is all over,
every free citizen Of the United States
should have the proud consciousness
that he has done his share in one way
or another in the great task of making
victory for right a certainty, that he
has done his share toward safeguard
ing the most priceless of all humanity's
good gifts, the high ideal of indi-
viduality, liberty and free government.
Fighting side by side in the same
cause we shall forget imaginary
boundary lines. AS the result Of our
joint struggle there. shall grow in us
a new consciousness, a world wide
sympathy, a cooperative spirit out of
which a better world will come to be-
ing.
Toward the certainty Of this new
order and the surety of this new world
no n is in a position to do more than
the United States, blessed as your ma
ton is by unexampled resources and
strong after a century Of freedom and
half a century Of peace. Now Is the
time when we feel sure that these i'm
m~easurably noble gifts will be turned
to account in order that throughout
the world may be achieved tho
American ideal Of the freedom Of the
Individual"
No Hatred.
Although we'll can that kaiser skate.
and beef the kron prinx chap. we chant