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Show PRESiDENT ASKS HELP OFjARHEHS DECLARES THIS YEAR'S ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVE-MENTS WILL DECIDE STRUGGLE STRUG-GLE IN PROGRESS IN EUROPE. Points Out Part Farmers of United States Are to Play in the Bloody Drama by Growing as Large Crops as Possible. Washington. In a message to the tuition's fanners delivered on January .'!l to an agricultural conference at I'r-hana, I'r-hana, 111., President Wilson said be thought statesmen on both sides of the water realized that the culminating crisis of the war had come and this year's achievements would decide it. The message, which the president intended in-tended to present personally until attacked at-tacked by a cold several days previous, previ-ous, was delivered by President James of the University of Illinois. Recounting Recount-ing the aggressions of Germany, the president said : "We are lighting, therefore, as truly for the liberty and self-government of the United States as if 'the war of our own revolution had to be fought over again, and every man in every business in the United States must know by this time that his whole future fortune lies In the balance. "Our national life and our whole future fu-ture development will pass under the sinister infiueuce of foreign control if we do not win. We must win, therefore, there-fore, and we shall win. I need not ask vou to pledge your lives and fortunes with those of the rest of the nation to the accomplishment of this great end. "You will realize, as I think statesmen states-men on both sides of the water realize, that the culminating crisis of the struggle strug-gle has come and that the achievements achieve-ments of this year on one side or the other must determine the issue. "I will not appeal to you to continue and renew and increase our efforts. 1 do not believe that it is necessary to do so; I believe that you will do it 1 without any word or appeal from me. liecau.se you understand as well as 1 do the needs and opportunities oi una great hour, when the fortunes of mankind man-kind everywhere seem about to be determined de-termined and when America has the greatest opportunity she has ever had to make good her own freedom and in making it good to lend a helping hand to men struggling for their freedom everywhere." |