The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
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Why Germany
Has Won Thus Far

Concedng, then, that Germany, has
without actually or approximately
achieving a decision, won remark
able series of triumphs in the first
twe've months of the war, what are
! the causes? Out uuI ibered. inferior
| in population. wealth resources, cut
off from the sea, how has she been
ale to conquer provinces and win
campaigns?
At the outset of the war the world
ascribed German success to that mar
velous military machine which inn
pressed itself upon the mind and the
Imagination of mankind. German
preparation, foresight, military gen
ius held the wonder of a world.
Yet the cold fact is that the mill
tary genius failed. 1t was not equal
to the task set for it. At the Name
| il broke down, not as the Prussian
machine broke down at Jena, but 1t
was defeated and the decision for
which il had risked all turned against
It.
Yet the consequences of defeat
were relatively slight and they were
slight because. behind the machine
tleii was a nation, organized, disoip-
lined, united A world which talked
about helpless masses hurled by Ho-
henzollern might against the foe UNI
willingly knows better now. 1t rec
ognizes that Hohenzollern and liable
boy were but component parts of
nation, people which had submitted
itself to age long discipline, which
had endured severe training and was
prepared to suffer untold hardships,
because 1t was serving a national
ideal.
Germany was not merely possessed
of marvellous military machine. Her
people through long years had been
taught, had been trained, had come
to believe in destiny for their coun.
| try that could be realized only by
/ supreme court effort. Before the
present war the average Englishman
talked somewhat vaguely OF the Boer
War; the Frenchman. OF 1870; but
the average German began his Jistor-
ical review with the Thirty Years
War and passionately, bitterly Ia
mented the loss that had come to
Germany by years when Europe took
advantage OF her helplessness to di-
vide the East.
Out OF this state of mind had
sprung the spirit that recalls Sparta
the civilization, the ideals, the vir'
tues, and indeed the vices which were
Lacedemonian. Germany was not
merely ready with an army. Every
detail OF national life was modified
with the call to arms industry, ag
riculture, every branch OF the life OF
people was ready. The victories
won by the AZ centimeter were in
the opening days but the real battles
were won behind the firing line later
Thus after the Marine and the Bat
tie of Flanders the German resourc
es rapidly mounted, while those OF
the Allies almost stood still. Ammuni
ton, equipment, all the necessaries
of war were turned out by German
factories. food was stored and dis.
tributed. National organization re-
paired the failure of the military ma
chine. German armies made head
against a world in arms because be
hind them was an organized nation
not only trained. but moved by spir
J 1t quite as genuinely patriotic, quite
as national as the French, more in
telligently alert than the British.
On the battlefield save In the open
ing weeks the German troops have
not proven themselve superior ia
the FRENCH. The French field artil
lery has been more effective than the
Grman. Russian armies have not
been lacking in courage; their com
manders have shown skill. But the
Russian nation has not modified to
meet the situation as has the Ger.
man. The French were not moboliz.
: ed. They have cvertaken the Ger
mans now, but the dark blot on the