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Show WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN TO BE UMAAERICAN? Under the captions of "What Doth It Profit a Man," railroad officers are distributing placards in all departments depart-ments urging the absolute necessity of co-operation in all branches as a part of the general defense of the nation against vandal Teutons. The placard Is issued also in pamphlet pamph-let form. These pamphlets and play-cards play-cards have arrived In Ogden and local officials are giving thom the widest possibility. They prove the necessity of aggressive patriotism and are as follows: Gormany Is working, by every schome that ingenuity can devise and money can put into operation to make American workmen traitors to their country in its hour of need. And What doth it profit a man if ho sends his sons and brothers to the battle-fields, and after ho gots them there he betrays them to tho enemy by stopping stop-ping tho industrial home work without which they can neither win nor escape? es-cape? The courses of nations the lives of millions are changed by very small events. Had the Monitor not been ready for the Morrimac exactly when she was, the Union fleet would have been rendored useless and tho Civil War might have had a different ending. end-ing. Had someone then succeeded in making serious trouble In a mine, a foundry, or a shop had someone then succeeded in delaying transportation while the Monitor was under construction, construc-tion, what -would have become of the whole Union fleet of wooden ships which was blockading the Southern ports? Germany wants us to be unready or confused when a similar crisis comes. Our whole nation is preparing for the turning point in this war which is to determine -whethor every man shall have a chance to work out his destiny, or whether he and his country are to become subject to the dictation of a Prussian group. If we are not fully ready when tho test comes it will be easier for Gorman Gor-man armies and German ships, German Ger-man submarines and German aircraft, to kill the men that go out from your community to protect you and your rights. , Whoever from any motive delays work bearing directly or Indirectly on the war will be an accessory to the murder of his fellow Americans. Every strike in the United States, while this war is in progress, is a blow in faVor of Gormany. What doth it profit a man to Increase In-crease his wagos or decrease his working work-ing hours if by so doing he contributes to the victory of a nation that makes slaves of white men and scourges them as they work? The condition of tho blacks in America Amer-ica before the Civil War was far better bet-ter than the condition of the whites of Belgium who today aro carried off liko cattle, aro overworked, underfed, beaten beat-en and, sick or well, must labor incessantly, inces-santly, often under the fire of their own guns. What doth it profit a man to aid a monarch who in this manner has shamelessly reestablished tho slavery of white men? The worklngman in America, who obstructs tho cutting of wood, the mining of fuel, tho weaving of cloth, the turning of wheels In factories fac-tories or on rails whilo this war Is In progress he Is helping tho slave masters, mas-ters, the destroyers of civilization, tho murderers of women and children. What doth it profit a man who has lived In a land of Incomparable liberties, liber-ties, of advantages unparalleled in all the history of tho world, to contribute by any act, howovor small, to the success suc-cess of an autocracy to whom a common com-mon man is but a clod of earth? Tho workingman who stands faithfully faith-fully by his duties day by day, allowing allow-ing no person and no thought to get between him and an honest performance perfor-mance of his work is rendering tho highest kind of patriotic service to hla nation and to his family. What doth it profit a man to sell his manhood, his selfrespeot, perhaps his soul, for a little selfish gain in such an hour? When life's services aro measured meas-ured up at tho end, those who have faithfully labored through the war shall be entitled to their credit as well as those who have led the charges in battlo. What doth it profit a man who wants to improve the condition of laboring men if he gains a little but in so doing prolongs the slavery of Belgian work-ingmcn, work-ingmcn, who now cannot gain thoir freedom but by death, or through tho victory of tho Allies? Stand by your work for your own honor and safety, for the safety and success of your fellow-countrymen who go forth to fight, as well as for tho sake of worklngmen who aro now in actual slavery beneath Gorman slavo drivers. The placards and pamphlets are issued is-sued by tho Conferonco committeo on National Prcparodness. Honry A. Wlso Wood is chairman; James E. Clark, secretary; and Raymond B. Prlco, treasurer. |