The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-02-07
PRESIDENT Will
SON SAYS CRISIS
Of WAR HAS Come
HE DECLARES THE FARMERS OF
AMERICA MUST AND WILL
WIN 1T.
FAITH In Their LOYALTY
GERMANY PLANNED TO SHUT
AMERICANS IN WESTERN
HEMISPHERE.

son Yesterday declared it the common
purpose of America and her associates
to win the war this year.
"The eliminating crisis OF the
struggle has come," he said. "The
achievements of this year must deter
mine the issue. Every man in every
business in the United States must
know by this time that his whole fu-
ture fortune lies in the balance. Our
national life and our whole economic
development will come. under the sin
lister influences of foreign control If
we do not win.
1--WE Must VIM"
eve must win; therefore, and we
shall WIN"
The statement was made in letter
to the Farmers conference in session
at Urbana, Ill.
The message, which the President
intended to present personally until
attacked by cold several days ago,
was delivered by President James Of
the University of Illinois.
The Presidents message said:
81 am very sorry indeed that | can
not be present in person at the Urbana
conference. I should like to enjoy the
benefit of the inspiration and exchange
of counsel which know I should OBJ
tain but in the circumstances it has
seemed impossible for me to be pres
ent and therefore I can only send you
a very earnest message expressing my
interest and the thought which such
a conference must bring prominently
into every mind. a
81 need not tell you, for l am sure
you realize as keenly as I do, that we
are as nation in the presence of a
great task which demands supreme
sacrifice and endeavor of every one of
us. 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.
To Block World Domination.
cit is to prevent 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 selfish
dominion throughout the world of 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. 1t had
raised it's evil hand against us. The
rulers of Germany had sought to exer-
else their power in such a way as to
shut off our economic life so far as
out intercourse with Europe was con-
cerned and to confine our people with
in the western hemisphere while they
accomplished purposes which would
have permanently impaired and i'm
pend every process of our national life
and have put the fortunes of America
at the mercy of the imperial govern
ment of Germany. This was no threat.
1t had become a reality. Their hand
of violence had been laid upon our own
people and our own property in flag
rant violation not only of justice but
of the well-recognized and long stand
ing covenants of international law and
treaty.
Fighting for U. S. Liberty.
"We are fighting, therefore, as truly
for the liberty and self-government 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 must know by
this time that his whole future for
tune lies in the balance. Our national
life and our whole economic develop
ment will pass under the sinister in
fuence of foreign control if we do not
win. We must win therefore and we
shall win. I need not ask you to
side or the other must determine the
those of the rest of the nation to the
accomplishment of that great end.
"You will realize as I. think states
men on both sides of the water relaize,
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
freedom of men all over the world as
well as our own depend upon us in
an extraordinary and unexpected de-
gree 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 a
the more glory because in supplying
them we have made our supreme effort
and sacrifice.
Agencies at Farmers Disposal.
"In the field of agriculture we have
agencies and instrumentalities, fortu-
nately, such as no other government
in the world can show. The Depart