The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-20

ton OF the war was made and when our
country was involved and when there
was no escape or alternative
Wilson is my president,
This country is my country,
And this flag is my flag.
I am here today with this message
TO you on the production of ships, men,
we are building ships and don t let
the world deceive you or the press de-
ceive you when they tell you we are
making no progress in that direction.
When war was declared we didn t
have vessel or a commercial ship, not
one. The only vessels we had were
| those we had taken possession Of that
belonged to the German government.
What was to be done-a new revolu-
ton We had to devise ways and means
then for the transportation of the
soldiers across the water or get
hckin, one or the other, and we did
not intend to get that. In the wisdom
of our President and Congress, body
was established called the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. They went about
to build ships on the Pacific coast.
We didn It have single shin yard, not
one. But men, today we have organized
one of the greatest building industries
in the world in that vicinity and $4,000
men in the Columbia River district
are engaged in the building of ships
and ship production.
On January 18th, we turned out for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation in
the United States, IS vessels for Uncle
Sam. We were not satisfied with that
record and in the month of February,
we turned out 81 more ships; in the
month of March, we turned out 1873 yes
sells. In the month of April, we. turn
ed out 158. In the month Of May 185
more. The Pacific coast district, alone,
has promised Uncle Sam that on the
4th day of July, we are going to
launch in that district, % more as q
4th of July celebation.
And, men, it is not ships so much
that we stand in need of today, it is
not men-we have the greatest army
of men assembled over all the country
It has been my privilege to stand in
three or four environments Of the
United States. We have the men lin
ed up and by the thousands. We have
something like million men today.
on the Western Front. It is not men
we need, it is not so much ships, but
we want guns and ammunition. We
want engines and boilers. We want
the equipment for these ships because
we are building ships faster than we
can get the necessary equipment and
the men to command them over on the
other side; so we are appealing to the.
men everywhere today from Main to
California Give us more of the acces-
series that belong to the ships and in
less than two years from today, if the
| bloody struggle goes on, we viii have
our bridge of ships across the Atlantic
Pershing said, Give me bridge of
ships across the Atlantic, and 1 will
go into Berlin in spite of hell
Now we are going to give them to
him. We are going to give him the
ships and / want you to know this that
our boys are suffering over on the other
side. I haven't time this morning,
men, but you read the horrors of war
in the press and language cannot be
printed to express the crimes that are
being committed by the German army
today. You can begin to tell of
them. When you see our lines have
been swerved, that they have been
| driven back little at the time, don It
get discouraged about that-they are
dropping back just q little bit at the
time--God bless them-but Germany
is paying about ten for one of every
ally she gets. She is paying dearly.
Come on, Germany, come out of the
| dugouts, where we can get at you, that
is Uncle Sam IS way of fighting and
when we get them out on the open,
then the boys have clear sailing Have
you ever noticed where the boys have
run or where the lines have been
| brokeng No, not single time has
the line ever been broken.
Men in this plant, in Gods name I
ask you: Are you going to tie the
hands of your boy and give them moth
ing to defend themselves with? We are
not dealing with weakling; we are
not dealing with an ignorant-we are
dealing with one of the most powerful
nations on earth. They have been
fitting and preparing themselves for
this bloody struggle for more than
forty years. / ask you again, in
Gods name, don't tie the hands of
my boy by a lack of interest on your
part. AS stated, it takes ten men to
keep one man going on the fighting
line. / ask you: Will you be one of
the ten men todayg
Look at the struggle that France
has had and / want to tell you, men,
that you and owe the greatest debt
of gratitude to any nation on earth to
France and when the war is over and
when the great debt has been piled
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