Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-23
THE GREATEST MOMENT IN
HISTORY.

HlhlDftts
There have been many great mos
menis IN history. but IN secular his
tory never has there been a moment
so big with human destiny as the
present
Tho greatest forces that ever have
been developed are locked In deadly
conflict The greatest decision that
ever has been evoked hangs undeter-
mined. Those who have held that the
ISSUES nre remote from w, on merely
sentimental, know better now.
We do not know what the upshot
will be. but whatever II is II viii ar
feet this nation nightly. To im-
aRine that we shall not be rocked by
The waves OF that vast cntaclyem, or
influenced bv the settlement to fol-
low H. In absurd.
Eihnologicaliy, economically and
cuItnraily North America lis an exten.
zion or Europe. Europe reacts upon
as constantly. II did 40 IN peace, it
does 70 In war For any of as to
think that We can escape through
our Indifference AND our detached
position the things that are shaking
and TRANSFORMING Europe. is vain
hope
10 the conflict between Napoleon
aud England hundred years ago
We owe the acquisition OF our west
from the Mississippi TO the Pacific
10 The issue OF that struggle We owe
eentury'a security from European
Interference. Had the issue been the
opposite. there can be no doubt that
cur history would have been material
Ii different
Heretofore, We have conceived our
selves as occupying a box seat at al
play. the ereatast tragedy ever STAGED
Cur own indifference TO the result Isl
as fatuoua as that OF Nero fiddlns
while Tome burned. The war has
the glaveat concern for us that can
come into our lives
For full year England was not
aroused as 10 what the war might
moan 70 her She II not fully arous-
ed vet A large part of Der people
nro interested In making money while
their houee Is afire, while their broth
erA are being killed trying 70 put out
the eonflaglation. Her WORKING men
slill ARE gambling about rights of
union labor, and her young men are
refusing to 80 70 war unless forced
TO DO 70 by consumption
Tho Galllpoll expedition failed. be-
oause il couldn't set b0.0G) reinforce
menis when called for by General SIR
Ian Hamilton, They drihbled in
months later Just enough 10 be Killed
but not enough TO win. When Ser
bin called for help. England sent
1900. and lost, when 10000 added
% the French forces. would have
hurled Mackensen from the Balkans
ana would have halked bulgaria and
would have insured the active aln-
anee Of both Greece and Rumania.
Turkey would have been crushed long
Ago.
The Mesopotaman expedition Is
but another case in point. An en-.
iifels inadeauate force was sent to
take RaSdad, was beaten BY ten
times It's number Of Turks aud
since ihsu has been besieged in kut-
eisAmnra. A relieving force was dis
patched and was ahie TO get close
enough to see the flashes of General
Townshends guns, but was not strong
enough %. raise the Siege For three
months that sieee has been in pro-
srcss, and ample renforcements have
not been sent. though tho way from
the head Of the Persian gulf Is easy
II the power Of England should he
DESTROYED. and such result Is not lm-
possible. the United states viii be
left At the mercy Of Germany and
Austria on the one side. and of Ja-
pan on the other Congress is doing
nothing Tor defense against such con-
ilngeney II is burning time and lis-
tening TO William Jennings Bryan
and The hyphen iast as though there
WAS no possible danger ahead--iust
rs England listened lndifferently 20
King Edward and LORD Roberts. and
WAS nnprepafed when the fatal first
Of August, 1914. arrived. and Is un-
prepared after the lapse Of twenty
one months!
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