Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-10-01
The Cult of Kitchener.


BY far the most impressive and sir
niiicant outgivinE reuting TO the war
IN It's later aspects is the speech of
Earl Kitchener 10 the houGc of com
mons, its Impressive the result of
deadly accuracy of his summing up
ana ITS significance in its pnraphrasc
oil conditions just preceding the round
up" at khartum and Soush Africn.
In these great campaigns he await
cd The results OF tension and nttri-
ton and in the fullncss Of time and
completeness of preparation" he
struck the blows tlat placed more
Than half II continent under the saiu-
tary rule of the British Empire.
with saturnine precision, "Kitchcn-
cr Of khnrtoum" outlines thc giuation
ON our fronts and for the first time i'm
fourteen months lo spcaks with the
only optimism known 10 his cult. the
optimism of certainty.
addressing people who have al
ready voted without division for n war
chest OF SIX thousand millions of dol
lars, he calmly tells them that still
greater sacrifices may be demanded
before complete success is achieved. "
with characteristic bluntness he seeks
no other paliallon of his country's
awful losses than the unqucstioned OBJ
legation entailed on Great Britain ms
the leading factor for civilization and
liberty. OF the empires wrcsted from
Germany in Asia and Africa ten times
greater than The English Isles he
makes no valIl-glorlous mention, and
Is silent as to the loss of Germany's
commerce and the forced internmcnt
OF her navy. AS Il Briton speaking to
Britons he deems 1t unnecessary to an
houncc that the submarine block nde
and the threat OF the Zeppelin raids
nave not appreclabiy raised the insur-
nnce rates on sen or land, and his only
seemingly invidious comparisons are
the implied assertions of Il trained sol
der that man to man the units of
the Ieuton armies are inferior to the
Slav In courage and endurance. and
less human than the Turks.
And this, after fourteen months of
cool-biooded observation by II man
VINO has moved the map-pegs after n
thousand battles, and II soldier who
bullded his own line of communication
from Alexandria TO Ordurman and
surprised" and destroyed II superior
army of utterly reckless Mohnmme-
dams.
VINO Will question the Judgment of
man whose cult rs u felIsn nnd
tnat 1eti3hiSm the science of successful
war! Not those who remembered that
MS pian, iInally adopted, resulted in
the swift termination of the Boer war
ana the long hoped for union of South
Africa. Not those who remember
that Kitchener directed the campaign
winch added during the last year 10
That union an area half the size of
the United States.
A frank acknowledgment of the in.
itiai mistake In the DardeneilcS IS the
only sop ne sees lit 10 throw the Cerb-
erus OF censure, the unrIpe ana perhaps
dlslngenious crlUicIsms and siurs of
his and his country's enemies, and
leaves 1T TO time and circumstances
10 justify Great BritaIns colossal loss
es-her best blood and her unconsiu-
cred treasures.
A citizen Of the frecst country in
the world, and III love with his coun-
Crys Institutions, ms nfe has been CIV
en- 10 the TASK OF broadening the be-
nelcenJ area OF British influence and
mus building into the family OF ma
lions such spiendId autonomIcs as In
dla and Egypt ana the Southern en-
pre- OF the IranSyaal.
ana so beneath the visor of the SOL
der we catch the figure OF the patriot,
eager TO serve, wise 70 dirccJ-equipp-
ed alike Tor council camp or eablneC.
But Tor the armies tnat Kitchener
had organized in Egypt and India ana
made possible IN Australia and Can
ada, his country, great as it is, would
nave been unprepared even 10 send an
cXpedltionary army into France when
forced into war of readJustment in
1914, and but for the British divisions
which were hurled against the weak
ened flank of Won Kluck on the Marne,
Germany's age-nursed kreigenZseil
might nave been realized.
That it will never be realized is the
deliberate consensus of all intelligent
opinion. The prophecies of Bcrnheardl
and Won TirpitZ that IN "such war
Germany must win in a year or be
! ruined" immutable laws of erosion
consumption and death, the lessons of
all history, the deductions of all the
sciences, The promises of God which
work the final analysis of all human
problems.
yet forty days and Ninevah shall
be overthrown."
OF this consensus, the speech OF
Kitchener, (who rarely speaks), is a
conglomerate as fairly and compactly
arranged as a battalion of his train.
ed troopers, who, having Thousand
minds, obey common impulse. Hc
speaks by authority for the greatest
of all earthly powcrs-a power which
though abandoned by all it's allie:
would inevitably bring this war tc
what he calls Successful conclus
ion sooner-or later.
| He makes no apologies for delays