The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-04-20
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had gore to the Prussiar head.
 The kaiser, when he witnessed it on grand scale at his reviews, got drunk with the sound of tt. He de- livered the Jaw to the wor;1 as a new pa ter on Sinai delivering inc law from the thunder clouds But make no mistake. Europe was uneasy. Eu- rope was half intimidatel. Europe was anxious. Europe WAS appreheI- sivc. it i-new the whole time what it meant. What we did not know was the moment when it would come.
 '"This is the menace, this is the oppression from which Europe has suffered for 50 years. They had to take into account this menace which was their constant pre-occupation, as a cloud ready to burst over the land.
 "France-no one knew except Frenchmen what they endured from this tyranny-patiently, gallantly with dignity, prepared till the hour of de- liverance came. The best energies of democratic France have been de- voted to preparing against the inn France was capable of was paralyzed. This is the state of things we have to encounter.
 h0 LuOSL CudIdCI0TlSIlC Ol dll Prussian institutions is the linden burg line. What is a Hindenburg line? A Hindenburg line is a line drawn on territories of other people, warning them that the inhabitants of those territories shall not cross it at peril Of their lives. That line has been thrown across Europe for 50 years.
 This has been an undoubted fight for tho emancipation of Europe and tue emancipation of the world. It was at first hard for the people of America who tried to appreciate that Germany had never interferred in a single step with their freedom, But at last they have duly to endure tie same experience. Americans were told they were not to be allowed to cross and re-cross the Atlantic except at their peril. American ships were sunk without warning. American sub- jects were drowned without apology, as matter of German right. At first America could not believe it. They could not think it possible that any sane people could behave in that manner, and they tolerated it once and they tolerated it twice, un- til at last it became clear that the Germans really meant it. Then Am erica acted and acted promptly.
 'The Hindenburg line was drawn along the shores of America and Americans were told they must not cross it, and America said what is this?" America said: 'The place for that line is not the Atlantic, but on the Rhine, and we mean to roll it up." And they have started.
 Two Great Facts
 There are two great facts which clinch the argument that this is a great struggle for freedom. The first is the fact that America has come in. She would not have come in other wise. The second is the Russian re- volution.
 q have been asking mself the question, why did Germany deliber- ately, in the third year of the war, provoke America to this declaration and to this action? The answer has been afforded by General von Hinden burg in a remarkable interview which appeared in the press.
 He depended really upon one of two things, namely, that the subma- rine campaign would have destroyed international shipping to such an ex- tent that England would have been put out of business before America was ready. According to his com putation America could not be ready for 12 months. He does not know America. He is confident in the al formative that when America is ready at the end of 12 months with her army she will have no ships to trans port an army to the field of battle. 'In General von Hindenburg
 words, America carries no weight. He means that she has no ships tc carry weight. It is not wise always to assume that even the German
 general staff have made calculations
 that they have no right to make
 and, therefore, it behooves the whole
 of the allies, Great Britain and Am
 erica notably to see that that reck
 oning of General von Hindenburg is false reckoning.