Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1918-06-27


in thirty years, at tie same linc the
consumers paid an average Of i've dele
lars a barrel less for flour than they
paid during the previous twelve
months The food administration +
reduced the difference In the price p
The producer and the price paid BY
the consumer, and for doing that 1t hss
no apology to offer TO any living man
While not a priceflxing bedy lEa
food administration has set Its t3e 8
like flint against The prof .teeG No
man with les knowledge or consent. s.
geing to make a dollar now taot ha
would not have made in times OF peae 4
II does not propose that the var sha 4
be the occasion for accumulation 81
uneaued profits
The food administration insist that
The farmers shah have fair aud Just
treatment; that they shall share with
all others alike in the blessings of GOV
eminent and with all others share
alike in bearing its burdens MoIs
than that the selfrespecting, patriotic
farmers do not ask
Without trying to excite your GU
pidity ! am appealing TO You In this
great or sis to redoube your efforts to
produce all the nations essential food
tufts Work, my friends, work early
and late. work as you have never Ia.
bored because the fate of civilization
hangs in the balance, depending largely
upon your efforts, your devotion and
your sacrifice for the verdict az
peal to YOU not with the promise OF
additional profits, but because world
in agony. Romanhood in tears looks to
you to do your whole part In this
greatest tragedy since Golgotha. My
friends, those embattled farmers ~
Lexington, who unaided raised their
hands against a power to which Rome
in her palmiest days was not TO he
compared did not calculate the cost
nor measure the sacrifice, They we're
not thinking about the price OF wheat
or cayiling over whether IL would pay
to raise pork for the gallant soldiers
and sailors, but they were thinking OF
their duty TO posterity. OF their obliga.
tioa to safeguard that which tkei1 fath'
erS aad wrested from the savage
and the Eifd oeast My frionas this
i. no time u count cost or estimate
profits, this lie the hour foI service.
You have an opportunity TO serve hu.
mainly never given before 10 any peo.
pie since time began
Think OF this magnificent heritage
OF ours. Is II not worth fighting for,
working for, aye, il necessary dying
for7 This great structure that va, call
civilization was not the work Of day
or year or century II Is the
creation OF all the ages These eyi,
dences OF civilization that We have all
about us, this building, this organiza
ton itself. our political liberty, our 70
ligious liberty, our Industrial liberty,
our educational liberty, all these things
that we count worth while that make
life to us something to be priced, are
ours because those who went before US
did not hesitate to sacrifice and labor
and suffer that we might inherit this
priceless heritage II is ours because
those hardy pioneers sailed three
thousand miles OF uneharted seas,
landed on a stern and rock-bound coast
blazed a pathway through the track
less wilderness, and here erected their
rude temples and dedicated them for.
ever to human liberty 1t is ours be-
cause those who went before US count
ed life thing to be despised If it were
not lived worthily, and who never
measured the cost where principle was
involved. Now are we, sons OF those
sirss, going to prove unworthy OF this
inheritance. false TO their name IN
true TO their faith, ell because 1t is
going to cost US something In blood
and treasurer
My friends, are we going TO stand
the test, viii we measure up 70 the
sacred trust reposed in us? Not II
we are quibhling over the price that
we are to be paid for our efforts, not
II we think more : Jut profits than
we do about human liberty: not If we
prize sordid gain above the virtue Of
our women and the honor Of our sons.
This war must be the supreme task,
the first consideration, every hour OF
every day with each and every one Of
us, IL we are to prove ourselves true
to the faith. This b q war not OF
military captains and great armies,
but It In a war Of peoples II will be
won by that people who can stand
steadfast, immovable, ready to die in
the faith that has made men strong
and great. II Will be won. as II should
be, by that people willing to make the
greatest sacrifices, to endure the most
severe punishment. to give all OF the
best that Is In them to the great task.
Cod grant that the sons OF America
may be true to the faith. steadfast
immovabls, consscrated to the task
which we have undertaken
This IL not q time to ask whether
you can afford 20 produce this crop or
will II pay to undertake that task. Civt-
lization, all that you and I prize. the
sacred relations of the home. the hal.
lowed memories Of the hearthstons.
our ideals of womanhood. our stand.
ards of life, all these things are in
peril. There is only one question that
the producers Of America can put TO
their conseiences now, and that ID.
will the doing of this contribute to the
winning OF the war.
Yes. they are holding the line. but
the folks back home must bring up the
reserves.