Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-02
Nation Expected Him to Win.
War Against Greatest Mill
itaY Country in World With.
Unframed Troops,
CENSORSHIP OF PRESS
ALSO HAD BAD EFFECT
Mccormick Analyses Condi-
tons in England at Out
break of War and Their Ef-
feet on Developments,

BY ROBERT II. MCCORMICK.
CCopyrght 1915: By The Chicago Trlbuncl
London, July 1O.-To appreciate
the nation of Great Britain at war il
is necessary to summarize her recent
history
After obtaining supremacy at sea
she proceeded to conquer all the ter
ritory of the world that was unabl
to protect Itself. Contemporaneously
with the development of steam and
steel there was found i'm the islands
the greatest deposits of coal and iron
in Europe,
This brought about two conditions
IAN enormous increase i'm the ma
tional wealth and the transformation
from an agricultural to a manufactur-
ing country
Land was held i'm England, as else
where in Europe. i'm "a few large own
erships
France, Prussia and Russia at var
ious times have divided the land
among the inhabitants. This was too
unconstitutional for England. She
therefore, repealed the corn laws,
giving the people cheap food, render
ing the cultivation of English land un-
profitable and rendering the nation
dependent for food upon Importation,
and hence upon "a continued control
of the sea
National state of Mind.
England has retained control of the
sea and as a nation has acquired the
habit of mind of a successful middle
aged man, For years the English
mans ideal has been not the acQui-
sition of more wealth but of more
rest ard more recreation.
This has been the desire of the
workman as much as that of the bus
mess man and capitalist
Vast wealth has come to England.
The accident of ownership as We'll ms
the laws of taxation and inheritance
have tended to great inequality in its
distribution Hence political activity
for at least half a century has cen
tered around the distribution of eX-
sting national wealth not its in-
crease 1t has been more like Amer
lea during the last ten years than
America during the preceding de-
cadc
Workmen listened to the preaching
of world wide union against em-
ployers, not realizing that in the em-
pire adjoining employers and work
men Wore cooperating to seize the
advantageous trade position Of Eng
land, and employers and employed
alike take from the English the ad-
vantage that nature and the toretalh-
ers had given them.
ID was upon a people thus preoccu-
pied chat the war burst in August
tgl4
The government did all that a dem
orratic government could do 1t put
its best known general in charge of
the war and gave him a free hand.
Lord Kitchener had conquered the
maldi of Egypt and had done capa-
tile work in the conquest Of south
Africa. After Earl Roberts he was
the chief military figure of a nation
given TO worshiping the men VINO
bring distinction to it.
He was hailed as possessing all the
ability that wellington had possessed
and even as much as Englishmen had
been taught to believe wellington had
possessed.
Kitchener Far-slghted.
That Kitchener was "a far-slghted
man and strong man was shown by
his insistence upon an army OF
million men and ADEQUATE training
before taking the field something
England was unprepared to CON
sIder
lie came to power with all an Eng
lsh or American officers unfamiliar
ity with his nation.
Besides these, denied all opportun-
lty to work out "a scheme OF war
adapted to the habits and interests
of bis people, he had swallowed whole
the best ready made plan-the Prus-
sian.
Thus, when in the first panic Of war
England substantially turned the gov
ernment Of the country over to kltch-
ener and asked him to perform mir
arle, one of his first acts was 90 a.
tempt 20 direct the press IN emula-
tlon of the Prussian principle. In
russia the press is weak estate
l'eid in contempt and the governlhb
hand is strong and able
The English press is the ehlet ele-
mcnt of national strength.
The English publicsts who have
substantially dominated world public
opinion for q century In the interest
oi the British empire, were put un-
der the governanCe Of men who knew
nothing of journalism and were con-
sidered too weak to work at their own
proiession-war
OF course. ENGLAND lacked any
comprehensive military system lack
cd military knowledge and knowledge
"t military needs Her immediate
need was education, which, with
mule intelligent help, the British press
Was eager to give
CensOrs Bungled Badly.
such knowledge, the bunglng cen
sors, puffed up by sudden authority