Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-28

manity, the pitilessness of fighting that
must come before lasting peace is
possible, is not comparable with the
cruelty that will be involved in stop
ping the war while there remains a
possibility of civilization again being
menaced from the same quarter. Peace
now, or any time before the final and
complete elimination of this menace, is
unthinkable. No man and no nation
with the slightest understanding of the
temper of this citizen army of Britons
which took the terrible hammering
without whine or grumble will at
tempt to call halt now."
"But how long do you figure this
can and must go onl" Lloyd George
was asked.
There's neither clock nor calendar
in the British army today" was his
quick reply. "Time is the least vital
factor. Only the result counts--not the
time consumed in achieving it.
at took England twenty years to
defeat Napoleon and the first fifteen
of those years we're black with British
defeat 1t will not take twenty years
to win this war but whatever time is
required it will be done and / say this
recognizing that We have only begun
to win. There is no disposition on our
side to finish the hour of ultimate vic
tory after the first success. We have
no demsion that the war is nearing an
end. We haven't the slightest doubt as
to how it is to end"
"But what of France; is there the
same determination there to stick to
the end, the same idea of fighting until
peace terms can be dictated by Ger
manv's enemiesl" Lloyd-Georg was
askd.
The war secretary carefully matched
each finger of one hand with each fin
ger of the other, and as he turned mis-
chair slowly to gaze out over the
khaki dotted throng in Whitehall, il
seemed the interruption had stemmed
| the flow of conversation. There was a
full moment S pause and as the chair
swung round again, the reply came in
voice and manner impressively grave
The Nobility of France
''The world at large has not yet be
gun to appreciate the magnificance
the nobility, the wonder of France,
he said.
81 had the answer 10 your inquiry
given me n few days ago by noble
| French woman. She had given four sons
she had one left to De given tC
France. In the course of my talk with
her, | asked if she didn think the
struggle had gone far enough. Her re
ply, without moments hesitation
was 'the fight will never nave gone
far enough until we have made a rep
etition of this horror impossible. That
mother was voicing the spirit OF
France.
ayes, France will stick TO the end
/ suppose Americas conception OF
France and the French soldier before
the war was as erroneous as the British
idea. / suppose you, too, regard the
French soldier as excitable, brilliant
in attack, but lacking dogged staying
qualities.
"Nothng was more unwarranted
tnan the popular idea of the French
man as q poor defensive fighter His
tory never justified this idea, but
there will be a new appraisement, q
new appreciation when the real hero
ism, nobility and genius of the defense
of Verdun is fully understood. Franco
has fought the longest wars of any ma
tion Of Europe and her history itself Is
assurance enough that she will hold
to the end.
Russia VIII Stay
"With the British il will be tnC
sporting spirit that will animate tbs
army to the last, fair play the motive
fair fight the method. With tn,
French it will be that fiercely burning
patriotism that will sustain the army
to the end, regardless of when the end
may come.
"And Russia-t will 90 through "a
the DEATH" interrupted LloydGeorge
"Russia has been slow TO arouse but
she will be equally slow to quiet. The
resentment Of the Russian against hav.
ing been forced into war is deep. He
has neither forgotten nor forgiven the
fact that this happened when he was
i'll prepared and unsuspeeting No,
there are, and win be, no cutters a.
mong the allies.
az Never again has become our bat
tie cry.
"At home the suffering and sorrow
is great and is growing. As to the war