The Washington herald., 1917-06-18
Germans Fighting Powers
Recalled by Churchill

western democracies were beaten
down by the central powers they would
BE-, es left 70 face q leyiathan alone;
IN history about the citizens Of the
North American Union and every
thing We feel in our own blood shows
that among the nations there Il none
more earnest, more virtle, more cap
able Of material sacrifice for ends con-
ceived to be sublime or more un-
lation. II such must be. 4
Therefore We need not suppose that
their distance from the European
battlehelds or their great dehberation
and hesitation In coming to their
decision or the fact that their in
terests are less Immediately and OBJ
viously affected than other allied
powers will prevent the United States
from throwing her whole weight into
the conflict gathering force and
momentum with every day that
German might and German tenAcity
will find in the United States Of
America q will power as infiexible as
their own and one which disposes of
unexhausted, nay untouched and in
exhaustible resources.
Therefore the task before Mr..
Britling, IL he is still constant in pur-
pose, IL he still believes that his gal
lant son fell In cause whose victory
will make the world q better place,
lived in by better men. and whose
kind for weary years-the task en-
erges with tolerable plainness. He
has got to hold on; he has got TO
hold on until this mighty REINFORCE
ment, this great and last reserve of
civilization. can reach our gallant bat
suits.
"And here Mr.. erItIing will look with
confident expectation to his navy. On
that superb service he, his equals and
his forbears have laylshed for hun
dreds of years the treasures Of the
realm and the affections of the people.
Power of Allied NayIes.
He knows It Will not fail him in
the hour Of need. He sees that the
allied navies are between three and
four times as numerous as the fleets
of Germany and Austria; that for
every German Dreadnought there are
three or four allied Dreadnoughts;
ship there are three or four older
allied battleships. He sees that in
the true employment of this mighty
superiority Of fighting force resides
one of the most important aids to
victory and that in the mastery of
the German submarine both by Of
fensive and defensive methods lies
his power to sustain the war-bitter
hosts of France and the battling
armies of Britain with the fresh and
overwhelming reserves Of the great
republic
"One again. as at the beginning Of
the great war, sea power will decide
the fortunes of mankind. Once again,
though threatened as il never was be-
fore. the royal navy will do its duty
and achieve its purpose; not merely by
those qualities of discipline. efficiency
and devotion which have never been
found wanting, but in that mental
energy ana intellectual passion which,
freed from conventional limitations,
heralds the birth of rare enterprises
and the rise Of great captains.
Sure OF this, Mr.. Britling will not
and pure and disinterested feelings
with which he began this war. He
Will make sure that he seeks nothing
which divorces him from contact with
those feelings; he will make sure that
he accepts nothing that does not
fully satisfy those feelings.
''He will Danish from his mind all
temptations of booty or revenge. He
will equally repel all thought OF COM
promise with evil. He will con-
centrate his whole mind and soul
upon the essential and irrevocable
dear ones yielded up their lives
namely. the dethronement from its
bad pre-eminence of that system Of
lust and cunning backed by force and
armed with science, which for want
of better name, or a worse. the
civilized and humane nations OF the
world have learned TO CALI Prussian
militarism.'
Thus Mr. Britling will be able to
say. not, alas, to his own gallant son.
but in a happier generation to his
daughters child, I saw it through