The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-05-04
PRESIDENT APPEALS TO
PATRIOTISM OF CITIZENS
As in 1875 Every Man is Expected to
Do His Duty-The Eyes of the
World Are Focused on U. S.


in the present crisis will not fall on
deaf ears. Europe is now fighting to
decide whether every people shall have
the right to make their own laws, follow
their own customs without dictation
from any one. The United States has a
vital interest in the decision. We do
not believe in and have never sought
to impose our laws and customs on any
peoples of this world. Much less do we
want any other nation to impose its
laws and customs on US. II Germany
conquers Europe, like every other
conouering nation she will certainly
want to conquer the United States. Its
wealth is so great and its laws and
customs so opposed to those OF
Germany she will by the logic OF
circumstance be compelled to make an
effort to subdue this country. Make
no mistake about the far reaching
designs of the German ruling class.
Read the presidents appeal. 1t is
sound. patriotic and points out the duty
OF every citizen.
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 national life and action
which calls for immediate consideration
and settlement that I hope you will
permit me to address TO you few
words of earnest council and appeal
with regard to them.
We are rapidly putting our navy up
on an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip great army,
but these are the simplest parts of the
great task to which we have addressed
ourselves. There is not single selfish
element, so far as lean 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 devote ourselves
10 the service without regard to profit
or material advantage and with an
energy and intelligence 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 sacrifice, it in
wolves.
These, then are the things we must
do, and do we'll, besides fighting, the
Things witiiooz:: itto;:: -h;ch mere fighting
would be fiuitless:
We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seaman not only, but also for a 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
hundreds out OF our shipyards to carry
to the other side Of the sea, submarines
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 people for whom the
gallant fellows under arms can no
longer work, TO help clothe and equip
the armies with which we are CO.
operating IN Europe, and to keep the
looms and manufactures there in raw
material; coal to keep the fires going
in ships at sea and in the furnaces Of
of hundreds Of factories across the sea;
steel out OF which to make arms and
ammunition both here and there; rails
for worn-out railways back Of the fight
ing fronts; locomotives and rolling
stock to take the place Of those every
day going to pieces; mules, horses,
cattle for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people OF
England and France and Italy and
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