Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-01
Message Is Read at Confer
enCe at Urbana Telling In
portance Of Agriculture to
Bringing Victory,
ECONOMY AND BIGGER
CROPS URGED IN NOTE
Agricultural Department Max
ing Effort to Help and Draft
Rules Aim at Solution of
Labor Problem.

tBY HosSIsc JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRsl
Washington, jan 31.-ln mes
sage to the nations farmers, delivered
today to an agricultural conference
al Urbana, H., President Wilson said
he thought statesmen on both sides
OF the water realized that the culmi-
mating crisis of the war had come and
this years achievements would de-
eide II.
The message, which the president
intended to present personally until
attacked by a cold several days ago,
was delivered by President James of
the University of Illinois.
II am sorry indeed that l can not 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 circum-
stances it has seemed impossible for
me to be present and therefore I can
only send you a very earnest message
expressing my interest and the
thoughts which such a conference
must bring prominently into every
mind,
Sacrifices Demanded.
Il need not tell you, for / am sure
YOU realize as keenly as ] do, that we
are, as nation, in the presence of
great task which demands supreme
sacrifice and enaeavor of every one
of us. We can give everything that
is needed with the greater willingness
and even satisfaction because the OBJ
iect 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 interest and the selfish domna-
ton throughout the world tof the
governments they unhappily for the
moment control. You will not need
to be convinced that it was necessary
for us as free people to take part
in this war.
Aimed to Cut Off America.
1T had raised its evil hand against
us. The rulers of Germany had
sought to exercise their power in such
way as to shut off our economic life
so far as our intercourse with Europe
was concerned and to confine our
people within the western hemisphere
while they accompanied the pur-
poses which have permanently i'm
paired and impeded every process of
O.
fortunes of America at the mercy OF
the imperial government or Germany
This was no threat. 1t had be-
come reality. Their hand of vio-
lence had been laid upon our own
people and our own property in fla
grant violation not only of justice
but of the we'll recognized and long
standing covenants of international
law and treaty.
Every Man Must Help.
I'VE are fighting, therefore, as
truly for the liberty and self govern
ment of the 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
future fortune lies in the balance.
Our national life and our whole eco
nomic development will pass under
the sinister infleunce of foreign con-
troll 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 realize,
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.
This Year Decisive.
1t has turned out that the forces
that fight for freedom. the freedom
of men all over the world as well as
our own. depend upon us in an ex-
traordinary and unexpected degree
for sustenance, for the supply of the
materials by which men are to live
and to fight. and it will be our glory
when the war is over that we have
supplied those materials and supplied
them abundantly. and it will be all
the more glorious because in supply
ing them we have made our supreme
effort and sacrifice.
I'm the field of agriculture we
have agencies and instrumentalities
fortunately, such as no other govern
ment in the world can show. The de-
partment Of agriculture is undoubted-
ly the greatest practical and scientific
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