Arizona republican., 1915-01-12
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

There some who believe that Bclgum's rcsis- tancc of German passage through it's territory fool-hardy, natural provocaton of the disasters which have fallen upon the country It would have been easy to accept the German proposition for a hurried march through the kingdom and to pay handsomely for all damages inflicted through out But MT Shaw points out that Belgium was between the devil and the deep sea and at present appears to have made bad choice England had notified Begirm that failure to resist the Ger man advance would be regarded by the allies as an act of war" If Belgium had disregarled the threit it would be smiling land and the de- Nastation which has wasted the country would be eating the heart France
 Says Mir Shaw:
 At the battle of Waterloo the British lay down snuGy behind the ridge, and placed the Belgian bri- gade the exposed forward slope of it to be ham mered to pieces by the terrible cannonade and then cut to r1pbonS by the charges that routed artillery. And English writers were not ashamed to disparage Belgian valor because British squares stood up to the charges at the top of the hill when the uncovered Belgian brigade fell be- Tore hail of cannon balls No Belgian then com plained of being allotted the post of danger it WIS his right on his soil to claim it.
 History repeated itself Liege There too BeI- gum was at the post of danger There she held the bridge for the whole west of Europe against Prussia. and never once looked back to ask 'Whore are the French and British" Where inleed2 Alas, it was long way to TpporarN; what were Napoeons twelve -pounders and twenty -four pound- CTS to the kaisers howitzers that from impossilI. distances could blow whole forts into the Welt all the generals of Britain and Franco have since come into the field; but none of them can vet claim the laurel of the mathematician of Liege who called his admiring captors witness that he had been taken alive only because he had been taken lnsensible To his magnificent warriorship even the Prussians took off their hats. Nothing that we can say about it can pay debt to it
 
 Belgium. Iicge fell Brussels has fallen. and Ant werp, Ghent. Brugcs and Ostend. I.ouvain mas hc,n sacked more scientifically than IsnaiI b,. S,lwarr,,v towns like Termonde have had the fiery chariot of war driven to and fro thei corpses unfiI thev are thrice slain like the dead in liars story. and the Belgian government has been driven ont utf, a foreign land What could have happcued to Belgium had she stood alone against the vorlo wei may her enemy laugh to the scrap of paper that guaranteed her integrity It will he tune enough for Belgum's friends to revilc Ger many for that when they nave made the scr. ,f paper good.
 Here is scathing suggestion: If after tbis one Belgian goes without full meal whilst tbot,- sands of lapdogs living in luxury from t,antcr there IS really nothing to be said for man kind"
 We do not know at whose instance or for vvbat purpose Mir Shaw wrote The Case of Belri,m put his paper has been given world vide circ,,I ton by the Commission for Relief in Belgium. and iS the most powerful appeal or, as Mir Shaw says
 claim for Belgium yet offered