IN OUR
FIRST YEAR OF WAR

MESSAGES AND ADDRESSES TO
THE CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE
MARCH 5, 1917, TO JANUARY 8, 1918

BY

WOODROW WILSON

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Frontispiece from drawing by
WILFRID MUIR EVANS

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

BOOKS BY

WOODROW WILSON

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAP.

Foreword

I. The Second Inaugural Address
(March 5, 1917)

II. We Must Accept War
(Message to the Congress, April 2, 1917)

III. A State of War
(The President's Proclamation of April 6, 1917)

IV. "Speak, Act and Serve Together"
(Message to the American people, April 15, 1917)

V. The Conscription Proclamation
(May 18, 1917)

VI. Conserving the Nation's Food
(May 19, 1917)

VII. An Answer to Critics
(May 22, 1917)

VIII. Memorial Day Address
(May 30, 1917)

IX. A Statement to Russia
(June 9, 1917)

X. Flag-day Address
(June 14, 1917)

XI. An Appeal to the Business Interests
(July 11, 1917)

XII. Reply to the Pope
(August 27, 1917)

XIII. A Message to Teachers and School Officers
(September 30, 1917)

XIV. Woman Suffrage Must Come Now
(October 25, 1917)

XV. The Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
(November 7, 1917)

XVI. Labor Must Bear Its Part
(November 12, 1917)

XVII. Address to the Congress
(December