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Show VITAL AS SOLDIERS 6UCH IS THE DECLARATION OP PRESIDENT WILSON IN LABOR DAY MESSAGE. Purpose of America Is to Resist Prussian Aggression, and the Army of Laborers at Home Is as Important Im-portant as the Army Abroad. Washington. All Americans are addressed ad-dressed as fellow enlisted men of a single obligation, in President Wilson's Wil-son's labor day message. The president's message follows: "My Fellow Citizens : "Labor day, 1918, is not like anj 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 of the enterprise of life and death upon which the nation had embarked, we did not perceive its meaning a.s 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 do now Unit, we are all enlisted men, members of a single army, of many parts and many tasks, but commanded by a single obligation, our faces set toward a single object. We now know that every tool in every essential industry in-dustry is a weapon, and n weapon wielded for the same puriose that any rifle is wielded ; a weapon which, if we were to lay down, no rifle would be of any use. Against Hun Aggression. "And a weapon for what? What is the war for? Why are we enlisted? Why should we be ashamed if we were not enlisted? At first it seemed hardly more than a war of defense against the military aggression of Germany. Belgium had been violated, France invaded, in-vaded, and Germany was afield again, as in 1S70 and 180G, to work out her ambition in Europe; and it was neces sary to meet her force with force. But it is clear now that it is much more than a war to alter the balance of power in Europe. "Germany, it is now plain, was striking strik-ing at what free men everywhere desire de-sire and must have the right to determine deter-mine their own fortunes, to insist upon justice, and to oblige governments to act for them and not for the private and selfish interests of a governing class. It is a war to make the nations and peoples' of the world secure against every such power a.s the German autocracy auto-cracy represents. It is a war of emancipation. eman-cipation. Not until it is won can men anywhere live free from constant fear or breathe freely while they go about their daily tasks and know that governments gov-ernments are their servants", not their masters. "This is, therefore, the war of all wars which labor should support and sapport with all its concentrated power. The world cannot be safe, men's' lives cannot be secure, no man's right can be confidently and successfully asserted assert-ed against the rule and mastery of arbitrary groups and special interests so long as governments like that which, after long premeditation, drew Austria and Germany into 1he war are permitted to control the destinies and the daily fortunes of men and nations, plotting while honest men work, laying lay-ing the fires' of which innocent men, women and children are to he the fuel. Industry Must Sustain. "You know the nature of this war. It is a war which industry must sustain. sus-tain. The army of laborers at home is as' important,. as essential, as the army of fighting men in the far fields of actual battle. And the laborer is not only needed as much as Ihe soldier. It is his war. The soldier is his champion and representative. To fail to win would be to imperil everything that the laborer has striven for and held dear since freedom first had its dawn and his struggle for justice began. "The soldiers at tho front know this. It steels their muscles to think of it. They are crusaders. They are fighting for no selfish advantage for their own nation. They would despise anyone who fought for the selfish advantage of any nation." "Let us make this, therefore, a day of fresh comprehension, not only of what we are about and of renewed and clear-eyed resolution', but a day of consecration also, in which we devote de-vote ourselves without pause or limit to the great task of setting our own country and the whole world free to render justice to all. and of making it impossible for small groups of political politi-cal leaders anywhere to disturb or ia any way to make tools and puppets of those upon whose consent and upon whose power their own aulhorilv and their own very existence depend. "We may count upon each other. The nation is of a single mind. II Is takins counsel with no special class. II Is serving no private or single inlere-t. Its own mind has been cleared and fortified by these days which burn the dross away. |