Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-04-18
MUST RESIST TEMPTATION OF
COTTON'S PRICE AND FEED
THE NATION.
SUPREME TEST OF nation
HAS CONE SAYS PRESIDENT
Must Supply Abundant Food Not Only
For Ourselves, But Also For Large
ca Has Made Common Cause.

Washington.-In an appeal to all
citizens of the country, President Will
son stressed the opportunity for the
farmers of the South to show their
patriotism" which he said can be done
in no better way than by resisting
the great temptation of the present
price of cotton, and helping upon q
great scale to feed the Nation and the
peoples everywhere who are fighting
for their liberties and our own"
The Presidents address follows:
MY Fellow Countrymen: The en-
trance of our own beloved country
into the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights which
problems of National life and action
which call for immediate considera-
ton and settlement that l hope you
will permit me to address to you a
few words of earnest counsel and ap-
peal with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our Navy
upon an effective war footing, and are
about to create and equip a great
Army, but these are the simplest parts
of the great task to which we have
addressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element, SO far as l
can see, in the cause we are fighting
for.
We are fighting for what we be-
lieve and wish to be the rights of
mankind and for the future peace
and security of the world. To do this
&reat thing worthily and successfully,
De must devote ourselves to the SER
ice without regard to profit or mater
l advantage, and with an energy and
ltelligence that will rise to the level
the enterprise itself. We must
aMR to the full how great the task
AZ how many things, how many
~lEho@Ssnd elements of capacity and
eervice and self-sacrifce it involves.
! Things Nation Must Do.
These, then, are the things we
must do, and do we'll, besides fight
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
I'VE must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and Jul
seamen, 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.
HWo ro,1ct c11rp1v chirc hu tho HIM
dreds out of our ship yards to carry to
the other side of the sea submarines
or no submarines, that will every day
be needed there, and abundant mater
ials out of our fields and our mines
and our factories with which, not only
to clothe and equip our W forces on
land and sea, but also to clothe and
support our people for whom the gal
liant 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 anG
manufactures there in raw material,
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 ammuni-
ton both here and there; rails for
WORKOUT railways back of the fighting
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
have usually supplied them
but cannot now afford the men,
the materials or the machinery to
make.
Industrial Patriotism.
1T is evident to every thinking man
that u industries on the farms, in
the ship yards, in the mines, in the
factories, must be made more prolific
and more efficient than ever, and that
they must be more economically man
aged and better adated to the par
requirements of u task than
they have been; and what I want to
say is that the men and the women
who devote their thought and their
energy to these things will be serv-
ing the country and conducting the
fight for peace and freedom just as
truly and just rs effectively as the
on the battlefield or in the
trenches. The industrial forces of the
country, men and women alike, will
be a great National, a great inter-
national service army. q y
The Supeme Test.
81 take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing this word to the farmers
of the country and to all who work
the farms: The supreme need of
own nation and the nations with
which we are cooperating is an
abundance of supplies, food supply
especially for the present year, is
superlative. Without abundant food,
alike for the armies and the peoples
now ut war, the whole great enter