Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1917 — CALLS UPON ALL AMERICANS FOR SERVICE [ARTICLE]

CALLS UPON ALL AMERICANS FOR SERVICE

President Appeals For United Country to Save .the Cause of Democracy—Farmers Urged. Washington, April 15. —fa a personal .appeal addressed tonight to his fellow countrymen, President Wilsoa calls upon every American citizen—man, woman and child—to join together to make the nation a unit for the preservation of its ideals and for triumph of democracy in the world war. “The Supreme test of the nation has come," says the address. “We must all speak, act and serve together.” Putting the navy on a war footing and raising a great army are the simplest parts of a great task ahead, the president declares and he urges all the people with particular emphasis upon his words to the farmers to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and demonstrate efficiency. The address follows: “The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights, which has shaken the world, creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal in regard to them. “We are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to create* and equip a great army, but these are the simplest parts of the great task to which we have addressed ourselves. t “There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can -see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the future peace and security of the world. To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must devote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or material advantage and with am energy and intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself. We must realize to the full how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of capacity and service and self-sacrifice it involves.”