Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-07-07
Can England Middle Through"
Her Fight for National Life?

be regarded as an ordinary weeks
work under peace conditions. The
most potent reason is the facilities
that exist for the men to obtain
dor.
work on one ship was SO bad that
1t could not have been done by men
VINO were sober. It had to be con
Clyde.
Yesterday the Grew of a transport
oesertedt the same thing happened
the day before. Ftremen go aboard
. drunk. thus reducing speed and en-.
dangering the lives Of thousands of
troops by making vessels a target
tor submarines. The cause Of the
trouble is drink.-Director of Trans
port:
The evidence is overwhelming
that the main cause for the alarm
Ing loss Of time is the lure of
drink. White Paper.
h peril of the labor situation is obvi-
Gus; but there Is a worse form of degener-
acy h failure In productive efficiency.
and that IL a deadening OF patriotism. q
pertinacious insistencs upon the mainte.
should be observed. is an evil by no means
confined to the working men.
The bitterest opposition to the project OF
OF defense has not come from the solder
victims of the habit, but from the wealthy
and well-to-do holders OF brewery stock
f ram, de OF title. small investors ana ~, mem "a.
OSso - SAS
1t Is, no doubt. y deplorable circum-
stance that working men should hold their
right to drink beer and gin as more i'm:
portant than supplying the navy n
army with the materials needed for de-
tense. But what shall be said Of distillers
and brewers and rum sellers who mako
tional peril. and of leaders of the church
who publicly refuse to indorse the %restrtc-
ton Of drinking. or even to give up pr1-
The official report from the front the
other day told how the British forces had
been able to equal, and even to surpass.
But III issue of this war depends less
upon the skillful use of weapons than
upon the employment to the fullest de-
! And it is perfectly clear that in this re-
spect the Germans have established q tre-
mendous superiority,
AS Senator Beverage wrote In Golfers
the other day. there are in Germany to-
day no political or religious or racial diff
ferences. All classes are inspired with
the most perfect unity. and there Is no
: ed II 1t were demanded by the government.
| Workmen who would attempt to put their
private wishes above the public welfare.
on personal liberty to the extent Of en-
| danEering the nation. are ~unthtnkablo
among that people.
is. in a measure, due to the effects Of
! h rigorous discipline imposed by autoc-
racy and the development Of i~ndividualism
cause lies deeper, for democratic II Francs
has revealed q unity and a devotion a.
intense as those exhibited in Germany.
There is no question that the British peo-
liberty they have SO long enjoyed. in that
they have lost the spirit Of self-denytng
patriotism and put a selfish limit to their
sacrifices for the nation.
They nave a modest but comforting
proverb to the effect that England al
ways muddles through" They did not
is no crisis that can be "muddled
through but one that can be overcome
only by infinite exertion and at tremen-
dous cost. This time they are not fight
ing a half million Beers, but 10000. 900 Ger
mans; and their recent spirit is a precur-
sor of disaster that may cav them in
( the end little else than their cherished
. right to drink