Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11

past the guns Of Gibraltar, ana ira;
versed the Mediterranean. It might al;
most be said that England's control Ia
limited to the top Of the sea. 7,
Wellington said h the chief busi-!
ness of a military. commander is guess.
ing what is on the other side Of a hill.
But it is no longer so. It is h business
Of a commander now to hold a tele-
phone to his ear and let an aviator tell
him what is beyond h hill. War isl
guesswork no longer and victory waits;
not upon a daring wizard like Napo-'
leon. :,
The acroplanes have torn away the
curtains n taken the roof off. They
have stripped warfare OF its surprises.
Von Kluck turned away from Paris;
only because two young aviators told
him what he was up against.
The 42-centimeter gun made dust of.
the costliest forts that the ingenuity Of
man ever devised. But the fortress of.
the gopher outmatches the science of,
engineers. Give him a hole in the.
ground and a rifle that can shoot a:
mile and a quarter. and a black Sene-l
galese. with a head like a bullet, can
stand off 10 brave. blue eyed Cauca-
slams in the open.
International Law Deadlocked.
This war. in deadlocking itself. has
deadlocked International law n the.
law of humanity. Since n army can!
not shoot it's way over the trenches OF;
the other, it charges the air with al
poison that throws the foe into the ag-!
ony of slow suffocation. II one nationl
cannot triumph over the armed force of
another. it can attempt to starve the,
noncombatant population. the inhabit-,
ants Unfortunately. age and infancy
alike.
Unable to establish a lawful block
ade of the mine own German coast,
England suspends the comfy of ma
tons and the rights of neutrals. I'm
able to venture pon the sea, Germany:
steals beneath it. where it is impossibles
to obey the immemorial rule of search:
and seizure. n she assassinates UNI!
armed sailors and neutral travellers im.
defiance Of the very instincts of nu-
manity.
Tho Yellow Slave.
The prophets looked for a financial
deadlock also. but money eve has
been the slave of war and it remains
obedient to its master now under the
heaviest eXactions ever laid upon 1t.
Special police were required to keep
crowding n trampling when England.
lately opened her window to receive
subscription for a So. 200, 900, 900 loan. I;
The British are said to be burning up
nearly $40, 900. 900 a day n Germany,
hardly less than that amount of the
products Of labor. The British and Ger
man debt has increased so per cent in,
a year. 1t is estimated hat all the arr
mics and navies together nave devoured,
more h SIS. 600. 600. 900 in a year of.
warfare. And that exceeds the cost Of,
all the wars since the beginning Of the.
French revolution.
But armies and navies are not the
most expensive elements in war. The,
destruction and waste and economic.
chao of war are the really costly fac
tors.
Property values listed on the London.
stock exchange were swept away to,
the extent Of So. 1000, 200, 900 in the eight
billion of Belgian wealth was trodden
beneath the heels Of the invaders in
two weeks. Yves Gyot calculates that
the trade of Europe last So, 500, 900, 900 in,
the first six months, just so much bread,
and butter snatched from the mouths
of the people.
Tho Ultimate Deadlock.
No N knows how such losses can
be borne. how nations can survive
such burdens and SO quickly recover:
from them. Where war gets it's money
always has mystified the statist.
Without gold and without credit, the
~confederacy fought the union folIr
years.. and Lee did not surrender his
$4,000 ragged followers at Appomat-
toX because the printing press of the.
southern treasury had broken down.
rance fought for Is years and never
lacked for gold. :.
While Napoleon still was winning
victories in Saxony in 1913, he could
not follow them up n complete them.
exhausted the breed of horses. 90
When. in 1914, he stood with his
back to the wall Of Paris. he still had
money enough. but boys had given
out. The human breed was exhausted.
To that deadlock. this war, IL CON
tinued, must more quickly come. I
How many men are under arms now
and how many have fallen in the wear.
we are not told. The estimates of the
aggregate with the colors of the war
ring powers range glibly from 10. OOO.-
900 even to 10000, 900. And the dead.
wounded and captured also are count
ed by the millions. Imagination balks
at such figures.
1t is easy to foresee that when the
gold is gone. h engravers can supply
it's place. When even the horses fali.
the factories still can foal their paso.
line horses.
But unless reasons returns to call a
halt the day surely will come when
there will be no more food for powder.
Then the war must stop amonR its
slaves. Nature will have deadlocked It.