The Tomahawk., 1918-02-07
WILSON URGES
GREATER CROPS
Address BY President, Read at
Urbana, Asks Supreme
Effort BY Farmers.
MARK MUST PASS 1917
Crisis Has Come. Says Executive, and
War viii End This Year, but
Farmers Must Make Rec
ord Production.

war VIII! END ! MS Year, Out
Farmers Must Make Rec
ord Production.
Washington, FEB. 1.-The achieve
| ments Of this year, on one side or
the other, must determine the issue.
The eliminating crisis of the strus.
| gle has come
Thus President Wilson warned the
farmers Of the country. The message
was delivered by President James Of
the University of Illinois in the alb
sence of Secretary of Agriculture p.
F. Houston, VINO was TO have repre-
scented the presiulnt at the farmers
+ conference at Urbana. The president
had expected to attend, but indisposi-
ton made it impossible and he dele
gated Mr. Houston, who was prevented
| from participating by the railroad
| tieup. The presidents message said:
"I am sorry indeed that cannot be
present in person at the Urbana con-
| ference. l should like to enjoy the
benefit of the inspiration and ex-
| change of counsel which l know !
| should obtain but in the circumstances
| it has seemed impossible for me to
! be present and therefore l only can
send you a very earnest message OK.
! pressing my interest and the thoughts
which such a conference must bring
| prominently into every mind.
Facing Great Task.
Il need not tell you for | am sure
you realize as keenly as ! do that we
are as a nation in the presence of a
great task which demands supreme
sacrifice and endeavor of everyone of
| us. We can give evrything that is
| needed with the greater willingness
| and even satisfaction because the OBJ
| iect c. the wal in which we are en-
gagged is the greatest that free men
| have ever undertaken.
War Cause Is Righteous.
You will not need to be convinced
| that it was necessary for us rs free
people to take part in the war. 1t had
raised it's evil hand against us. The
rulers OF Germany had sought to exer-
else their power in such way as to
shut off our economic life SO far as
our intercourse with Europe was con-
cerned and to confine our people vita
III the Western hemisphere while they
accomplished purposes which wou1d
have perman emily impaired and I'M,
NEEDED every process OF our natloha!
life and have put the fortunes on
America at the mercy of the Imperial
government Of Germany.
Whole Future at Stake.
I'VE are fighting, therefore, as truly
for the liberty and self-government Oh
tho United States as If the war OF our
own revolution had to be fought over
again, and every man in every business
in the United States must kno" ny
this time that his whole future 1or,
time lies in the balance. Our natlonal
life and our whole economic aeVelop
mtnt will pass under the sinister III.
n,,ence of foreign control IL we 90 no "
win. We must win, therefore, anu "" te
shall vim. I need not aesk you III. ="
rledge your lives ana fortunes
those of the rest OF the hauo'i ~ 'sA@
accomplishment OF that siea. u"
This Year Will Decide war.
.>.or will, re,]fze as think "f"',*-
NON on bot, sizes Of the water rea'
lie. that the eliminating CRISIS " . .no
Struggle mas come and that the
.ohievements Of this year on the one
s;1e Or the other mast deteri1'Nn '''
;c,,ua II has turned out that the
forces that fight for freedom OF men
over the World as we'll as our own ue,
mend mon US in an extraordinary ano
unexpected degree for sustenahce .ol
IVA s,,nnlv Of the materials by which
NOV, .re to live and to fisht and it will
ho ar p;orv when the war is over that
we have supplied those materials aii',
srpplied them abundantly and II Will
he ali the more glory because in sup
plylns them we nave H1due o"i S''
Dreme effort and sacrifice.
Farmers Paramount Factors.
"1n the field of agriculture we have
AGENCIES and instrumentaltles, 1ortu
natelv such as no other government
in the world can show. The depart
mont of aericultare Is undoubtedly
t:,c greatest practical and scientific aE
r;cnltural organization in the world
The banking legislation of the last
two or three years has given the farm
ers access to the great lendable cap
ia, Of the country and it has become
tho duty both of the men in charge
of the federal reserve banking system
and Of the farm loan banking system
tn see to it that the farmers obtain
tn. credit. both short term and lons
| FORM. to which they are entitled not
| only but which it is imperatively nee
| essary should be extended to them II
tho present tasks of the country are 10
be adequately performed. Both direct
| purchase of nitrates and by the estao
| ;isnrent of plants to produce 1!trates
| the govern1nent'is doing its utmost to
! assist in the problem Of fertilization
| Giving Farmers Every Aid.
| "The department of agriculture ard
| other agencies are actively ASSISTING
tho farmers to locate. safeguard anf
| secure at cost an adequate supply OF
| sound seed. Tho department has s.,