Arizona republican., 1917-12-17

That pistol shot wrapped the world in the flames of a war that is being fought in every country in the earth and on fourteen battle fronts of Europe.
 "Twenty-one million men are under arms in Europe and forty-two millions are away from their homes Every country in Europe is on the verge of
 bankruptcy and now the only neutral country has been drawn into it and is preparing to pay the price. Can any one find a parallel to that? All the wars that ever were found since the world began look like thirteen cents in Chi nese money compared to this one The Real Cause
 Gettysburg was the greatest battle
 ever fought up to the time this war started. In that battle $500 rounds of ammunition were fired by the big guns
 in three days. Compare that with to- | day. Those 3,500 rounds of ammuni- tion would last just seven and one half minutes on the French front.
 When Sherman started his famous
 maBch to the sea he was given ammu-
 milton to last his army three months. | That ammunition would last just ten minutes on the French front today | T am recalled to t,fe concluding lines
 of a song that recommend only for it's l sediment: Good by Nav, Good by i Paw: Good-by Mule With Your Old
 He-Haw. I may not know what this
 wars about, but I hope, by gosh that
 I'll soon find out
 Millions of people every day are asking the same question; what is this
 war about? To tell all the causes ot
 this war I would be compelled to relate
 the history of the world for the past fifty years. All nations had a hand ir it. All we could do was to find out
 on which side was the major right and on which was the major wrong, and tC
 cast our lot with the side of the majol
 right. I am proud to say that the
 United States finally cast her lot with
 the side of the major right, and that's
 all I need to know.
 When the tumult and the shouting
 of this war has died away fifty years
 hence, it will be known that the. certain
 driving cause that forced England into
 this war was the frame of mind of tn, ruling classes of the German empire" !, The Occasion Came
 { pr. Francis recounted some of Ger
 many's history how the German peopl
 were an ancient and honorable people but that the German empire was one o 2 the youngest; that in 1871 Bismarcl l brought together the twenty five state . and welded them into the German em . pire under the domination of Prussia ) He told of the reaching out of all tn , European nations for colonies, excep
 Germany. Bismarck did not want col , onies. Finally after Bsmarck's deatl \ Germany looked about for colonies, bu s, | a11 f1lr IIa hardi's letter in which he declared tha ? Germany's future greatness lay acros l the seas.
 Germany came into the cOlonie f game too late, it was declared, an r that the only way she could secure an , was to take them away from the ma r tions that had them, which she woul
 do when the occasion arose. The occa t sion came, declared the speaker, whe s the high school boy shot an Austria = prince.
 e The thirteen days from that tim n until England decided to enter the wa t were the most momentous thirtee h days in all history" declared D
 Francis. Everything that possibl
 could be done to preserve the peace t the world was done, but war could nc 5, be prevented. Germany was read I, The only way in which the peace n the nations could have been preserve a at that time would have been for Gref e Britain, France, Russia and the oth, l. nations to have bowed before the in = perial government of Germany.
 s Tt takes a good while to arouse Il l. conscience of the world" declared tF speaker, but when it once is arouse $ it cannot be swept back. The invasiC :" of Belgium aroused the conscience ,e the world.
 d Fate of Belgium
 Il 'ln 1859 treaty was entered into b
 tween Great Britain, Germany, Franc F. Russia and Austria to the effect tn It these nations might fight among then l. selves, but that no nation in that con It pact would place a soldier upon the st a. of Belgium. That treaty was kept il al violate for seventy-fiye years Sin
 that time there have been 5000 treatit lt and the average life of them has be, d put two years. Here was a treaty tn is had been kept for seventy-five years re When war became inevitable in 19 re Sir Edward Grey of England. co ce cerned regarding the treaty of Belgiul q (COntin1Ied on Papa SixA