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Woodrow Wilson: “We are trying to fight in a cause which means the lifting of the standards of life.”

On the recordAugust 14, 1917
We are trying to fight in a cause which means the lifting of the standards of life.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks to the General Meeting of the Committee on Labor of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

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