Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-16
Appeals to "Middlemen."

/ Appears TO II.
| The President appeals to middle
| men" to forego unusual profits. point
| ing out that the eyes of the world
are on them now; and to railway own
ers and employees to see that the ar
teries Of the nation are kept open. that
they suffer no obstruction Of any kind"
and no iaefilciency or slackened power.
He calls upon boys in hosts to go to
the farms, upon the farmers Of the
south especially to plant crops other
than cotton. Notwithstanding the high
price of that staple He calls upon
America to correct her unpardonable
fault of wastefulness and extrava-
gance."
The cultivation OF home gardens is
urged and housewives are urged TO
practice the strictest. economy
Warning the people that America
lions abroad with which the country
will be associated in the war. the Presi-
dent creates. by his call. what ne oe-
scribes as a great service ARM ,n
the service of the nation and the world:
the efficient friends and saviors OF
free men everywhere. who. the res
and effectively as the men on the Dat
tIefeld or in the trenches"
Text Of Address.
The Presidents address is as foilows:
MY Fellow Countrymen:
The entrance Of our own beloved
country into the grim and terrible
war for democracy and human
rights which has shaken the world
creates so many problems of ma
nj rS-h
immediate consideration and settle
ment that hope you will permit me
to address to you a few words OF
earnest counsel and appeal with re-
gard to them.
We are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing ana
are about to create and equip
great army, but these are the sim
plest parts of the great task TO
which we have addressed ourselves.
There is not a 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 Tor the
future peace and security OF the
world. To do this great tnins
devote ourselves to the service With
out regard to profit or material ad-
vantage and with an energy and in
telligence 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 elements Of capacity and
service and self-sacrffice it involves
Things We Must Do.
These, then, are the things we
must do. and do well. besides fight
ine-the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and 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 sides
we shall be fighting.
We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out Of our shipyards to carry
to the other side Of the sea. subma-
,rines or no submarines, what will
every day be needed there, and
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 our peo-
pie, 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 looms and
manufactures there in 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 to make arms
and ammunition both here and
there: rails for WORKOUT 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 la
Dor and for military service: every
thing with which the people of Eng
land and France and Italy and Rus
STA have usually supplied them
selves, but cannot now afford the
men. the materials or the machinery
to make.
Proposes Great Service Army"
1t is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, on the
farms, In the shipyards. in the
mines, in the factories, must be
made more prolific and mora eff