Show S WORKERS ST AT HOME I I VITAL AS A S SO SOLDIERS e SUCH IS THE DECLARATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON IN LABOR DAY MESSAGE Purpose 0 of America Is to Resist Prussian Ac Aggression and the Army of Laborers at Home Is as Important Important Im- Im as the Army Abroad br ad I All Washington All Americans are addressed ad nd- dressed as fellow enlisted men of ot a II single obligation In President Wilton's Wil Wll tons duns labor day message The presidents president's message follows rt My Iy Fellow Citizens Labor day 1918 Is not like any my Labor day that we have known Labor Tabor day was always deeply significant with us Now It Is supremely significant Keenly as we were aware a year agoot ago r of ot the enterprise of ot life and death upon did 5 which the then nation had embarked we did not perceive Its Its Its' meaning meaning as clearly r as we do now We Ve knew that we were all partners and mu must t stand stan and strive I Y together but we did not realize rel as we wedo wedo I do now that we are UP all enlisted men mt members of of- ofa a single army of many mapy manyi i parts and many tn tasks ks but commanded S by a single ob obligation lg our fn faces es set setS r S toward a single object Abject We now know that every tool I In every ery essential Industry industry In in- r Is a weapon and a weapon wielded for the same purpose that any i iL L rifle Is wielded a weapon which If It we were were to lay down no rifle would k 1 be of ot any usei use t i Against Hun Aggression r And a weapon for tor what What Is the r war for Why are we enlisted Why should we be ashamed If we were not notS S enlisted At first It seemed hardly m more than a war of defense against the military aggression of ot Germany ct i d Belgium had been violated France In In- F and Germany was afield again as In 1870 and lS 1800 1860 O to work out her ambition In E Europe rope and It If was necessary 4 r nary sary to meet her force with force torce But r It Is clear now that It Is much more f than a war to alter the balance of ot power In Europe Germany It Is now plain was striking striking ing at what free men everywhere e desire desire de dc- sire and must have the have the right to determine determine deter deter- r mine their own fortunes to Insist upon Justice and to oblige governments go to toS S Y act for them and not for the private 1 and selfish Interests of ot a governing t v class It Is a war to make the nations and end peoples peoples' of ot the world secure against every such power its as s the German autocracy autocracy autocracy auto auto- cracy represents It Is a war of ot ieman eman eman- Not until It Is won can men anywhere live free tree from constant fear or breathe freely while they go about j their dally daily tasks and know that governments governments governments gov gov- are their servants not their masters t I. This Is therefore the the war of ot all wars which labor should support and with all aU Its Us concentrated power 4 The world cannot be safe mens men's lives cannot be secure no mans man's right can can- be confidently and su successfully assert asserted ed against the rule and mastery of ot arbitrary groups and special Interests so long as governments like that which after long premeditation drew Austria and Germany In Into o the war ar are i permitted to control the destinies and andS andS' S' S the dally daily fortunes of men and nations plotting while honest men work layIng layS layr lay- lay S r Ing the fires of which Innocent men women omen and children are to be the fuel r Industry Must Sustain You You know the nature of ot this war It Is a war which Industry must sus sus- tain The army of ot laborers at home Is isas ns' ns Important as essential as the army of fighting men in the far fields of ot actual battle And the laborer is not only needed as much as the soldier It Itis Itis is his war The soldier Is his champion and representative To fail fall to win would would-be would be to Imperil everything that the laborer has striven for and held dear since freedom first had Its dawn and his struggle for tor justice began Iegan t r The soldiers at nhe the front know this it It steels their muscles to think of ot It They are crusaders They are fighting for no selfish advantage for their own O nation They would despise anyone who fought for the selfish advantage of ot a any ny nation Let us make this therefore a day of fresh comprehension not only of ot I what we are are about and of ot renewed and eyed clear-eyed resolution but a day daya I a of ot consecration also in which we devote devote de de- s vote ourselves wIt without out pause or limit S to the great task of setting our own country and the whole hole world free to render justice to all and of making It Impossible for small groups of political ca cal ca leaders anywhere to disturb or In any way to make tools and puppets s of ot those thos-e upon whose consent and upon I who whose power their own authority and their own very ery existence depend i We may count upon each other The nation is of ot a single mind It Is Js taking r S counsel with no special class It Is serving no private or single Interest t. t Its own mind has been cleared and 5 5 fortified by these days which burn the dross away |