Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-18
A WAN or PEOPLES.

The Journal Is asked many ques.
tions that would more than tax ihs
wisdom Of Solomon 20 answer. Man,
queries have come 10 us relative d
The probable duration Of the Euro.
pean war. The British war minister
Niscount Kitchener. says IT'S duration
viii not be less than eighteen months.
Others have estimated II as high a.
twenty years. All we can do II to
nnaIsze the elements involved and
guess that II VIII not be ended until
Germany IL exhausted; for. ~ Hubert
ciniDs, president Of the New York
German.Amefican chamber Of COM
mcrce. says elsewhere on this page.
tho German people are united In a
war for their very existence.
Let 1t be understood at the outset
that there are two sorts OF wars.
There are wars Of kings or govern
ments. and vafs OF peoples. The two
are very different sorts Of wars. and
., makes a difference TO the aggres-
sor whether he wages war against a
government or q people.
Bismarck. with n people AZ his
back. conquered at Gravelottc and
Sedan the government OF Louis Ma.
polcon The memoirs OF Olivier.
published but year or 40 ago. re-
veal what an Intellectual sort OF gov.
eminent that OF the second empire
was. and how little war by the
people the conflict OF 1870 was. Oh
ilNicr was Louis Napolcons prime
minister. he II was who declared war
on Prussia.
The Eighteenth century wars were
the wars Of monarohs and were wag.
cd for the nuat part by professional
armies highly trained and relatively
small bodies. such were the armies
Of Turenne. Of Marshal Luxembourg
OF Marlborough aud Prince Eugene.
OF Marshal VilIafa and Mafshal SAKE.
OF Frederick the Great and the AUS
trlan General Dann. They we're good
armies Of their kind. and their man-
euvcfn and eombnts were highly
scientific. truly professional.
hut when the French revolution
went forth to fight. new thing hap
pened to Europe. The French peo+
pie. the democracy IN arms. assalled
the kings and tore to shrcds the pro-
feasionaI armies OF tho monarchiee
The republican armies recfcatcd war,
they invented new tactics.
The success Of Bonapartc was the
upahot Of the revolution The down.
fall d Napoleon. the emperor. WAS
hecuuee The democratic army with
which he started had hccn suppiunted
~ an army TINT WIS professional III
character moi an army u the people.
When Bouapafte. The citizen, aeiscd
upon the democratic spirit Of the
time. he wan Irresistible, But Bona
parts hecame Napoleon and Napoleon
became despoi rbe dcspot en-
larged from emperor of the French
20 matter Of half u Europe
The army Napoleon led Into Rus
~ wsls nut peoples army Il WIS
more European thnn French. II was
composed malnly 81 forces drawn
from his dependencies, the nhenish
provinces. Prussia. Italy, Holland.
rniana~-i we're even fifty thons-
and Austriana. Read the story OF
the composition Of Napoleon's ARMY
of invasion. a. told in THEIRS history.
The inspiration 81 the people war
ring for the PEOPLES canse Was not
in the ARMY nor indeed IN that army
which lost Aepefn and Won WaRram
ia 1909 lleAides Napoleon had At
iasl aroused tho peoples apasnat him..
When Prussia rose N lsis, under the
leadership q schafnhorst and stein
and the moral influence Of the heroic
sl'ru@an Queen i.onise. whose
strength Of character was in prapor-
tion 10 The weakness OF her husband.
Napoleon No ionRef had 60 dcai with
mouaruha but With peoples. The
Germans rightly call Lepslc the bait
tle IL the peoples We have Angll-
clxed Il into The battle of the ma.
flonn
the present war Is called wau
OF nonarehs. Aonarchs instieAied
II. The kaiser. The ozar and the em-
perof Of Austria are responsible for
il breaking out But Il Is ne mere
nonarchs fight, II Is clash Of
the peoples All France is up. The
whole Of the German people Is or
eanixea for war. not because they
probably ssmpaehixe with the kaiser.
hut because. hemnpd ~ as They are
by theif enemles. they are fighting
for national existence. The French
people afe anl 70 conquer Or die
An the national hatred bred ffam
the loss Of Alsace and Lorraine and