Arizona republican., 1915-11-26
"Military Experts"

few days ago Dr. Charles E. Jefferson preached the Broadway tabernacle New York. against preparedness, taking ground against naval and military experts advisors of policy. characteristic pulpit sermon; characteristic of an but many preachers who lay down premises which all ready accept correct, and from them proceed conclusions while follow them in doubt system of preaching almost certainly the why many men prefer go fishing automobiling Sunday rather than to church. They know they doing they and where they going.
 NIT. Jefferson seemed to whole matter of preparedness exploded by the fol- lowing questions which smugly propounded and answered.
 Who advised the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in forts in Europe only that the of all defenses is a hole in the groande Military experts.
 Who advised the trampling of Belgium, thus dcpriving Germany of the sympathy of the civilized world? Military experts.
 ordered the sinking Lusitania? Naval experts.
 Who has hurled all Europe into ditch? Mi- taTy and naval experts"
 We may ask in reply, who, if not the military experts devised the weapons which made formerly impregnable defenses worthless what would have been fate France if the Belgian de- lenses Liege though rendered by de- velopments in artillery had still been strong enough hold up the Germans Liege and Na- a days?
 invasion of Belgium, however moral ly wrong it might have been, it military advantage. Without it Germany could have made the advance which enabled it to take and hold richest section of France. Without the invasion of Belgium the would be waging German soil.
 sinking of the Lusitania horrible
 
 view. it of distinct advantage to Germany. It the holding up of British traffic and it impeded the flow of munitions of to Great may alienated worlds sympathy from Germany, but that sympathy if it had remained, could not have been of the slightest aid Germany in the
 As to who hurled all Europe into the ditch" M-. Jefferson will look beyond the mili tary experts for answer. He must look to the blindness and the greed and ambition of British German politicians He would look hack beyond the present generation-back beyond the that produced the of 1870 The military only told how in their opinion the might best be fought. If there had been no military and naval experts, up-to-date weapons, i would probably have been fought were fought the dawn of history, with clubs, rocks, bows and perhaps with bastas.
 Rev. MT. Jefferson probably regarded this as settler" AS to naval and military experts, Lord Salisbury understood them any American understands them. This is what he wrote Lord Cromer in Egypt Pay attention to the military experts. for. if they had their way, they would fortify Mars to prevent invasion from the Moon
 reply this may say Lord Sails bury typical of those later English statesmen have let Britain upon world without preparation. The consequence has been its prolongaton for year and almost halt with the end not in sight. Many thousands of the best of EngIshmen lie under the soil of France Belgium and the Galipoi peninsula because Great Britain prepared Many thousands will fall while their nation is preparing.
 We assume that Lord Cromer, fnancier and diplomat acted the advice of Salisbury fol kis policy failure and attempt to pacify the nationalist agitation by timed concessions 1T language of his successor Sir Edon Gorst, 'ant intentional dminuton of British authority. Natives well European colonies in Egypt at tributed the policy to weakness. Disorders ant conspracies ensued and when Gorst's health failed Kitchener sent out to restore order and re establish British prestige. Though military ex pert he did for Egypt and for British inter