Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-02-15
ARMIES FIGHT FOR
FBEEn0M (lE M0BI n
iHLLuUM VI WUIlLu
WILSON MAKES PREDICTION IN
MESSAGE READ AT GREAT
CONVENTION or FARMERS.
1918 TO DECIDE WORLD WAR
Recalls Achievements Of American
Farmers and Urges Greater Efforts
This Ysar-Freedom Of World
Depends on United States.

Washington LIN message to the
nations farmers, delivered to an agri-
cultural conference at Urbana, ILL.,,
President Wilson said he thought
statesmen on both sides of the water
realized that the eliminating crisis
Of the war had come and this years
achievements would decide it
The message, which the president
intended to present personally until
attacked by cold, was delivered by
PRESIDENT James Of the University OF
Illinois. Recounting the aggressions
OF Germany, the president said:
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 every one
Of u.s. We can give everything that
Is needed with the greater willingness,
and even satisfaction, because the OBJ
ject of the war in which we are en-
gagged is the greatest that free men
have ever undertaken. 1t is to pre-
vent the life of the world from being
determined and the fortunes of men
everywhere affected by small groups
OF military masters who seek their
own interests and the selfish domin-
ion throughout the world Of the gov
ernments they unhappily for the mo-
ment control. You will not need to
be convinced that it was necessary for
as as a free people to take part in
this war. 1t had raised its evil hand
against ug. The rulers of Germany
had sought to exercise their power in
such way as to shut off our eco
nOmic life so far as our intercourse
with Europe was concerned, and to
confine our people within the western
hemisphere while they accomplished
purposes which would have perma-
mently impaired and impeded every
process of our national life and have
put the fortunes of America at the
mercy of the imperial government OF
Germany. This was not threat II
mad become reality. Their hand of
violence had been laid upon our own
people and our own property in fla
grant violation not only OF justice, but
Of the well recognized and long stand.
ing covenants of international law
and treaty. We are fighting, there
fore, as truly for the liberty and self
government of the United States as
IL the war Of our own Revolutio4. had
10 be fought over again; and every
man in every business In the United
States must know by this time that
his whole future fortune lies in the
balance. Our national life and our
whole economic development will pass
under the sinister influence Of foreign
control If we do not win. We must
win, therefore, and we shall win. !
need not ask you to pledge your lives
and fortunes with those of the rest OF
the nation to the accomplishment OF
that great end.
"You will realize, as | think states
men on both sides of the water real
ixe, that the eliminating crisis of the
struggle has come and that the
achievements Of this year on the one
side or the other must determine the
issue. 1t has turned out that the
forces that fight for freedom, the free