A MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL ARMY.

To the Soldiers of the National Army:

You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of the whole country is with you.

Everything that you do will be watched with the deepest interest and with the deepest solicitude, not only by those who are near and dear to you, but the whole nation besides. For this great war draws us all together; makes us all comrades and brothers, as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our national independence..

The eyes of all the world will be on you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom. Let it be your pride, therefore, to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and straight in everything and pure and clean through and through.

Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be a glory to live up to it, and then let us live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America.

My affectionate confidence goes with you in every battle and every test. God keep and guide you! WOODROW WILSON.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1917-SECRETARY LANSING EXPOSES COUNT LUXBURG.

(Count Luxburg, German Minister at the Argentine, had used the Swedish Foreign Office to advise his Government about sinking Argentine ships. He recommended that they be sunk without trace "spurlos versenkt." This "spurlos versenkt" note, among others, fell into the State Department's hands and was published, creating a new disgust with German methods.)

SEPTEMBER 8, 1917-ENGLAND ADOPTS PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY TO THE POPE.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1917-THE PRESIDENT APPOINTS A PERSONAL

COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE LABOR RESTLESSNESS AND REPORT.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1917-RUSSIA PROCLAIMED A REPUBLIC.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1917-State DEPARTMENT EXPOSES VON BERNSTORFF, FORMER GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U. S. (A letter was made public showing that von Bernstorff intended and expected to corrupt Congress in favor of Germany,

and had a fund on hand for that purpose. These, and similar fruits of the United States Secret Service activities, were released from time to time in answer to gestures of virtue and injured innocence being made in Germany. )

OCTOBER 9, 1917-BRITISH TAKE POELCAPELLE.

OCTOBER 16, 1917-100,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS REPORTED SAFE IN FRANCE.

OCTOBER 23, 1917-FRENCH, IN A SMASH, TAKE MALMAISON FORT, ON THE Aisne.

OCTOBER 29, 1917-ITALIAN DEBACLE ON ISONZO FRONT. (This was traced definitely to German and other propaganda.)

OCTOBER 30, 1917-Von Hertling SuCCEEDS DR. MICHAELIS AS GERMAN CHANCELLOR.

(Each change in this office brought added political power to the Junkers, the Pan-German Prussian militarists, intent on carrying through their first grim plans of conquest and exploitation.)

NOVEMBER 1, 1917-BRITISH AND FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS REACH ITALIAN LINES.

NOVEMBER 1, 1917-BRITISH TAKE BEERSHEBA.

NOVEMBER 1, 1917-KERENSKY GROWS IMPATIENT WITH AL

LIES.

(Kerensky, with his hands full of Russian troubles, was trying to get the Allies to make a definite statement of war aims which would quiet the suspicion of the seething Russian masses concerning their Allies. This the Allies were reluctant to do, because of the existence of understandings amongst themselves which collided with the Russian formula of "no annexations, no indemnities"-and in a sense with President Wilson's announced platform for Allied Peace.)

NOVEMBER 3, 1917-FIRST FIGHT OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN FRANCE.

NOVEMBER 6, 1917-CANADIANS TAKE PASSCHENDAELE.

NOVEMBER 7, 1917-THE PRESIDENT ISSUES THE ANNUAL THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

THE THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. That custom we can follow now even in the midst of the tragedy of a world shaken by war and immeasurable disaster, in the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst the darkness that has gathered about us we can see the great blessings God has bestowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise.

We have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we once served ourselves in the great day of our Declaration of Independence, by taking up arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men everywhere and joining with other free peoples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then demanded and obtained for ourselves. In this day of the revelation of our duty not only to defend our own rights as a nation but to defend also the rights of free men throughout the world, there has been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring measure the resolution and spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and purpose. A new vigor of common counsel and common action has been revealed in us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances, in the midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men have ever entered upon, we have, if we but observe a reasonable and practicable economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us. The great duties of a new day awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of.

And while we render thanks for these things let us pray Almighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His grace our minds may be directed and our hands strengthened; and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comradeship of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth.

Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twentyninth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations and in their several homes and

places of worship to render thanks to God, the great ruler of all nations. WOODROW WILSON.

NOVEMBER 7, 1917-AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS, WITH COLONEL HOUSE, REACH ENGLAND FOR ALLIED WAR CONFERENCE IN PARIS.

NOVEMBER 7, 1917-BOLSheviki GaininG CONTROL OF RUSSIAN AFFAIRS IN PETROGRAD,

(Trotsky and Lenine, "internationals," one of them helped back to Russia by Germany herself, beguiled the earnest, naïve Russians with a cry of immediate peace and free land. Their leadership was accepted by the Bolsheviki—the "maximalists," or those asking the maximum in the way of radical reforms.)

NOVEMBER 9, 1917-BOLSHEVIKI WIN Moscow. Kerensky TOTTERING, AND RUSSIA MOVING SWIFTLY TOWARD ANARCHY IN GOVERNMENT.

(How much of this breakdown of order was due to the propaganda of German agents, and how much to ingenuous enthusiasms among a simple people newly free, can never be fully known. Many students of statesmanship believe that a little more frankness and patience on the part of the Allies, and an earlier blowing away of the mists that were hanging over Allied war aims, would have saved Russia from what seemed to the Allied people at the time an ungrateful, treacherous betrayal, deserving to be permitted to punish itself. This view came to be held in the press to some extent. President Wilson subsequently appears not to have lost hope at any time, and not to have completely lost the confidence of the Russian people.)

NOVEMBER 10, 1917-ITALIANS, STIFFENED BY FRENCH AND ENGLISH TROOPS, STAND ON THE PIAVE, SAVING VENICE.

NOVEMBER 10, 1917-LENINE AND TROTZKY, BOLSHEVIKI, BECOME SUPREME IN RUSSIA.

NOVEMBER 12, 1917-LLOYD GEORGE DEMANDS ALLIED UNITY IN POLICY, PROGRAM, PLAN AND EXECUTION.

NOVEMBER 12, 1917-PRESIDENT WILSON GOES TO Buffalo AND ADDRESSES THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OFf Labor.

(President Wilson had recognized Labor from the first. Samuel Gompers, President of the Federation of Labor, was working closely with him on labor problems involved in organizing

the nation for war. In this address President Wilson points out the just obligations and duties of labor, as well as its rights and privileges. He showed labor its own interest in winning the war by drawing a picture of the German idea and its effect upon every form of freedom.)

"LABOR MUST BE FREE."

AN ADDRESS TO THE FEDERATION OF LABOR at Buffalo.

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Mr. President, Delegates of the American Federation of Labor, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I esteem it a great privilege and a real honor to be thus admitted to your public counsels. When your executive committee paid me the compliment of inviting me here, I gladly accepted the invitation because it seems to me that this, above all other times in our history, is the time for common counsel, for the drawing together not only of the energies but of the minds of the Nation. I thought that it was a welcome opportunity for disclosing to you some of the thoughts that have been gathering in my mind during the last momentous months.

I am introduced to you as the President of the United States, and yet I would be pleased if you would put the thought of office into the background and regard me as one of your fellow citizens who has come here to speak, not the words of authority, but the words of counsel; the words which men should speak to one another who wish to be frank in a moment more critical perhaps than the history of the world has ever yet known; a moment when it is every man's duty to forget himself, to forget his own interests, to fill himself with the nobility of a great national and world conception, and act upon a new platform elevated above the ordinary affairs of life and lifted to where men have views of the long destiny of mankind. I think that in order to realize just what this moment of counsel is it is very desirable that we should remind ourselves just how this war came about and just what it is for. You can explain most wars very simply, but the explanation of this is not so simple. Its roots run deep into all the obscure soils of history, and in my view this is the last decisive issue between the old principles of power and the new principles of freedom.

CAUSES OF THE WAR.

The war was started by Germany. Her authorities deny that they started it, but I am willing to let the statement I have just made await the verdict of history. And the thing that needs to