Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-07
WORKERS At HOME
VITAL As SOLDIERS
SUCH IS THE DECLARATION or
PRESIDENT WILSON IN LABOR
DAY MESSAGE.
Purpose Of America Is to Resist
Prussian Aggression, and the Army
Of laborers at Home 10 as I'm.
portant as the Army Abroad.

Washington.-All Americans are "A.
dressed as fellow enlisted men of a
single obligation, in President vii.
sons labor day message.
The presidents message follows.
"My Fellow Citizens:
Labor day, 1918, is not like anv
Labor day that we have known. Labor
day was always deeply significant with
us. Now 1t is supremacy significant
Keenly as we were aware year apo
Of the enterprise Of life and death upon
which the nation had embarked. we d,d
not perceive its meaning as clearly
as we do now. We knew that we were
all partners and must stand and strive
together, but we did not realize as We
do now that we are all enlisted men
members of a single army, Of many
parts and many tasks, but commanded
by a single obligation, our faces set
toward a single object. We now know
that every tool in every essential in.
dustry Is weapon, and weapon
welded for the same purpose that any
rifle Is welded; weapon which II
we were to lay down, no rifle would
be of any use.
Against Hun Aggression
"And a weapon for what? What is the
war for? Why are we enlisted? Why
should we be ashamed If we were not
enlisted? At first II seemed hardly
more than war of defense against
the military aggression OF Germany.
Belgium had been violated, France In
vaded, and Germany was afield again,
as in 1870 and 1866, 10 work out her
ambition in Europe. and IL was neces.
sary to meet her force with force. But
Ii Is clear now that II is much more
than war to alter the balance Of
power in Europe.
Germany, II is now plain, was strik.
Ing at what free men everywhere de-
sire and must have-the right 20 deter
mine their own fortunes. 10 insist upon
justice, and to obllge governments to
act for them and not for the private
and selfish Interests of "A governing
class. II is war TO make the nations
and peoples OF the world secure against
every such power rs the German auto
cracy represents. II is war Of eman-
cipation. Not until 1t is won can men
anywhere live free from constant fear
or breathe freely while they 20 about
their daily tasks and know that gov
ernments are their servants not their
masters.
This Is. therefore. the war OF all
wars which labor should support and
support with all it's concentrated power.
The world cannot be safe. mems lives
cannot he secure. no mans right can
be confidently and successfully assert.
ed against the rule and mastery OF
arbitrary groups and special lnierese
so long as governments Ike that
which, after long reconciliation, drew
Austria and Germany into the war are
permitted to control the destinies and
the daily fortunes of men and nations
plotting while honest men work, lay
ing the fires OF which innocent men
women and children are 10 be the fuel
Industry Must Sustain.
"You know the nature of this war
II is war which industry must sis
tain. The army of laborers ~ home
as important, as essential. rs the arm!
OF fighting men I'm the far fields OF
actual battle And the laborer is mol
only needed MS much as the soldier II
Is his war. The soldier is his champion
and representative. To fail TO win
would be 10 imperl everything that
the laborer has striven for ana heid
dear since freedom first had its dawn
and his struggle for justice began
1.-THE soldiers AT the front know ms
II stees their muscles 10 think oil IT.
They are crusaders. They are hghuhs
for no selfish advantage for their own
nation. They would desplse anyone VINO
fought for the selfish advantage Vi
any nation"
"Let us make this. therefore, Gay
OF fresh comprehension, not ohly y,
what we are about and or rene"''
and clear-eyed resolution, bnt "a'
of conservation also. In which we w
vote ourselves without pause or iiin'
10 the great task of setting our Wv"
country and the whole world Tree
render justice to ALL and Of MAXIM
II impossible for small groups ct poh.r
cal leaders anywhere to disturb OF VI
any way to make tools and puppets
of those upon whose consent ana "lVn
whose power their own authority ""'
their own very existence depend
1--WE may count upon each other lne
nation Is of a single mind. II Is tak'ns
counsel with no special class IL %
serving no private or single iheres',
It's own mind has been cleared NV"
fortified by these days which burn 'he
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