Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-04-19
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ProIit 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 well, besides fighting.-the
Things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
1--WE must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not only, but also for a large
part OF the nations with whom we have
made common cause, in whose support
and by whose side we shall be fighting.
we must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our ship wards to carry
to the other side of the sea. subma.
rines or no submarines, what win every
day be needed there, and abundant
materials out of our fields and our
mines and our factories with which not
only to elothe 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 elothe and equip the armies with
winch we are cooperating in Europe
and to keep the looms and manufac tories
| there IN raw materials; coal to keep
| the f1res going in ships at sea, and in
| the furnaces of hundreds of factorieH
across the sea; steel out Of which to
make arms and ammunition, both here
and there; rails for wornout RAILWAYS
back of the firing fronts; locomotives
and rolling stocks to take the place of
those every day going to pieces; mules,
horses, cattle for labor and for military
service; everything with which the peo
pie of England and France and italy
and Russia have supplied themselves
but cannot afford TO the men, the ma
terials or the machinery to make.
1t is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, in farms, in
ship yards, in the mines, in the fac
tories, must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever and that they
must be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular require
ments of our task than theyehave been;
and what ] want to say is. that the men
and the women who devote their
thought and their energy to these things
will be serving the country and con.
ducting the fight for peace and free
dom just as truly and effectively as the
men on the battlefield or in the trench.
es. The industrial forces of the coun
try, men and women alike, will be
great national, o great international
service army--a notable and honOred
host engaged in the service of the
nation and the world, and efficient
friends and saviors of free men every
where. Thousands, nay, hundreds of
thousands Of men otherwise liable to
military service, will of right and Of
necessity he excused from that service
and assigned to the fundamental, sus-
tanning work Of the fields and factories
and mines, and they will be as much
part of the great patriotic forces of the
nation as the men under fire.
81 take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing this word to the farmers of
the country, and to all who work on the
farms: The supreme need of our own
nation and of the nations with which
we are cooperating is an abundance of
supplies, and especially of foodstuffs.
The Importance of an adequate food
supply, especially for the present year,
is superlative Without abundant food
alike for the armies and the peoples
now at war, the whole great enterprise
upon which we have embarked will
break down and fall. The world g food
reserves are low. Not only during the
present emergency, but for some time
after peace shall have come both our
own people and a large proportion of
the people of Europe must rely upon
the harvest in America. Upon the
farmers of this country, therefore, in
large measure, rests the fate of the war
and the fate of the nations. May the
nation not count upon them to omit no
step to increase, the production of
their land, that will bring about the.
most effectual cooperation in the sale
and distribution of their food productsa
The time is short. 1t is of the most
imperative Importance that everything
possible be done and be done imme-
diately to make sure OF large harvests.
call upon young men and old alike
and upon the able bodied boys of the
land to act upon this duty-to turn in
hosts to the farms and make certain
that no pains nor labor is lacking in
this great matter.
81 particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundant food
stuffs as well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation of the present
price or cotton and helplng, helplng
upon a great scale, to feed ethe nation,
and the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for our
own. The variety of their crops will
be the visible measure of their com
prehension of their national duty.
"The government of the United
States and the government of the
several states stand ready to cooperate.
Nrsi ID IN
assist farmers in securing an adequate
supply of seed, an adequate force of
laborers when they are most needed at
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