The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-16
THE PRESIDENTS APPEAL

< ,a < | x ID RESIDENT WILSON has addressed to the people sim
 pie and direct statement of the necessities the has created. 7-
 remarkable as illustrating the spirit of dmocratic na on and indicating the tremendous changes war making in conventional concepts of naonasm and in dustry
 largely from exaltation of the spirit of natonals of self cntered patriotism has been claimed by most of the uopean thinkers who have gained credit in the discussion of
 That such war 50 begun should give unprecedented pet to the principals of nternaionaism unexpected
 The American president is under misunderstanding. He how the progress No a vored by him. There to be isolation of the United States no holding aloo from unity that will help the cause. As A.s
 Vhe nation need ships They will be built by us joint benefit The nations need money American taxes her billions employed the international sovereignty These then, are the things we do well, be- sides fighting the things without which fighting would
 must supply abundant only and for armies and but also for large part of the nations now common cause whose support and by whose sides shall be fighting.
 We must supply ships by the hundreds out of ship yards to to the other side of the submarines submarines what will be needed there and abundant materials fields mines factories with which not only clothe and equip forces land md sea but also to clothe and support our people whom the gallant fellows under longer work to help cothe and equip the armies with which cooperating in
 Europe and to keep the looms and manufacories there in material keep the fires going ships at and in the furnaces hundreds factories the steel of which make and ammunition both here and ere rails for out railways back of the fighting rons locomotives and rolling stock to take the place of those day going to pieces mules horses cattle labor and military service everything with which the people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but cannot afford the men, the materials the machinery to make
 This concept of obligation that before the could not have existed except theory in the mind of cast pac Yet the necessity has been thrust upon the world with nevitabeness which heres only in those comc which standing and above all individuals whomso the world along paths that not disclosed till feet are treading them. N:tf
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 The industrial forces of the country and alike will he great national and international service army able and h0n0d host engaged in the service of the nation and the world the efficient friends and savios of free where"
 Distinctly approaches the federation of the world Never the nations be remote from each other they have been the world interest completely sacrificed national interest I.#.9 Fs3e
 The President of the United States proclaim the doctrine of Christianity dating from the day of Jesus that the world is bigger than the nation The United States fights not for it's hand but for the authority of the parliament for world supervised in it's larger activities by law of the world
 The is noble Quite the nobles in which kind have shed their blood 1@