Show I i WORKERS AT JT HOME VITAL AS SO SOLDIERS SUCH IS THE DECLARATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON IN LABOR DAY MESSAGE Purpose of America Is to Resist Prussian Aggression and the Army of Laborers at Home Is as Important Important Important Im Im- as the Army Abroad Washington All til All Americans American are addressed ad addressed dressed as UR fellow enlisted men of a single obligation in Inn President WIlsons Wll WIl sons son's labor day message The follows he presidents president's message My Fellow Citizens Labor da day 1918 1013 Is not like any Labor day that we have known Labor day was always deeply significant with us Now It Is supremely significant Keenly as we were aware a year ago agoot of ot the enterprise of ot life death upon which the nation had embarked we did not perceive percel Its meaning as ns clearly as we do now We knew that we were all partners and must stand and strive together but we did not realize as we wedo wedo wedo do now that we are arc all nIl enlisted men members of a single arm army of of man many parts and many man tasks but commanded by a single obligation our faces set toward a single Ingle object We now know I that every eYer tool In ever every cs essential industry Industry in- in In In- Is a weapon and a weapon wielded for the tine same purpose that nn any rifle rUle Is wielded a weapon which if we wc were to la lay down no rifle would be e of any use Against Hun Aggression And a weapon for what went What is the time war for Why are we enlisted Wh Why should we be ashamed if we Wl were Wele not i enlisted At first filSt It seemed hardly more than a n. war WaL of oC defense e a against 1 he tine military ng aggression of Germany I Belgium eI had been violated I France ranle In- In varied 1 and Germany was afield again as is In 1870 and to work out her il ambition in Europe and It was necessary necessary sary to meet her force with force limit Hut Butt It It t Is clear cleal now that it Is much more than han a war ar to alter the balance of power In Europe Germany It is now plain was WL striking In ing ng at what free men everywhere ever de- de desire desire sire ire and must have the have the right to determine deter- deter mine their own fortunes to Insist upon I justice and to o oblige governments to I act ct for fOI them and n not ot for the private and nd selfish h Interests of ot a n governing loss class It is a war to make time tIle nations and nd peoples of the world secure secure- against eYer very every such power as ns the German autocracy auto- auto racy cracy represents It is a war of eman- eman Not until it ft r fa fr won can clIn men anywhere live free from from- constant fear tea or r br breathe freel freely while they go o about their heir dally dully tasks and know that governments gov- gov 0 are their servants not their masters This is therefore the war Hr of alT all allara wars ara varn which labor should support and support with all its concentrated power The Tine world cannot lie be safe mens men J lives ves cannot he lie secure no mans man's right can cane he be e confidently on and successfully asserted assert assert- ed cd against the rule and mastery of arbitrary groups and special Interests so o lon long as n. governments o like that after long ling premeditation drew AustrIa and Germany into the war Avar are permit permitted tell to control the destinies and he time dall dally daily fortunes of men and nations plotting while honest men work lay haying layng lay hay In ing ng the Ute fires of which innocent men mC women and children are arc to be fuel Industry Must Sustain You know the nature of or this war It t Is a ti war which Industry lUU must sus sus- taro aln The army of laborers at home isas Is IsS Isas as S Important as t. t essential as the army of f fighting men In the far fields of dual actual battle And the laborer Is not only needed as liS much niacin as ns the tine soldier ItIs It ItIs Its Is s his war ihl Fine Tho sol soldier Is his champion lon and nd representative e To fail to too win would would he be to Imperil everything everything- eYer U ln that the lie laborer hll has striven for and amI held dear ear since freedom first had Its dawn and nd h ills his s struggle JI for justice began The soldiers at nt the front know this It t steels their muscles to tor think of it The They hey are arc crusaders ll e They are fi fighting for Cor or no selfish elfish elfi h IId advantage e for their own nation They would despise anyone who ho ought fought for line selfish advantage of any any nation Let us snake make this therefore a 11 day a. a I of fresh comprehension not only of what we ice are fire about and of or renewed and clear e eyed clear eyed ed resolution but hut a da day I of 01 consecration con also In which we devote de- de ote vote ourselves without or limit to o the great groat task of setting our own country and tl the e whole world free to ta render Justice to all nil and md of mul It t Impossible for small groups of political political cal cat leaders anywhere to disturb or In Inn n any wiry way to make tools and puppets of those thoe upon whose consent coment and upon whose power their own authority and their heir own ver very existence depend We Ye may count upon each other othel The nation Is of a single le mind It is taking counsel with no special class It Is serving no private or single Interest Its ts own mind naiad has been heen cleared and fortified by hy these da days s 's which burn the tine dross n away wa |