The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-06-15

unexcitediy. | knew he believed II,
and I know that he has the facts up
on which to base such an interprea-
ton of the situation.
This man is not an alarmist. but
he has the courage to face the facts,
the same courage that all of the rest
of us must have in the crisis thru
which this country must pass dur
ing the next few months.
II what this man said to me stood
alone and was contrary to the opin-
ion of other well-informed men, ii
would not have been so impressive.
But in effect it was summing up OF
information which l had gotten in
more or less confidence from dozens
of other men. And more impress
sive still was the fact that no man
in official or unofficial Washington
who is in a position to know what is
going on behind the veil takes the
opposite view.
Optimists Wanting.
II there are any optimists in
Washington, | could not find them,
and | could not find any one who
could find them.
am so sure that the man | have
quoted above knows what he is talk
ing about, and so sure that it is to
the interest OF the country that what
he knows he told, that | shall quote
him somewhat at length:
America must wake up to the fact
that she is at war. The people must
realize that unless they get into this
war at once with their full strength
il will not long remain a war for
ideals. but will become a war OF self
preservation, as actual for the Unit
ed States as it was for France in
1914 when the Germans were
marching on Paris.
Conditions in Russia.
THE chaotic conditions in Russia
which have paralized that nation >
arm has enabled the Ger
mans to strengthen their forces on
the Western front.
Unless the United States can give
heroic aid to her allies during the
next six months in food and ainnu-
milton, particularly in food, there is
as good az an even chance TOR a Ger
man victory over England and France
before winter.
This war will be won or lost not
alone on the stOmachs of the soldiers,
but on the stomachs of the civil pop
ulatiOn. Today considerations OF
men and munitions at the battle
fronts are more than eQualed by con-
siderstions of food supplies for the
whole of the nations at war. With
out adequate food for civil popula-
tions as well as the armies, ten mill
ion addition men and unlimited
arms would avail little toward a
military victory.
Food Revolt.
"The Russian revolution was
food revolution. The same danger
threatens in England, France and
Italy. Unless the United States
awakes and settles seriously to the
work of stimulating production, en-
forcing food economy ard by a firm
administrative hand regulating pric-
rs so that hunger will not result at
home from our efforts to feed our
allies abroad, there is 10 lodging the
ssue.
Either we must find some way to
provide the Allies with seyenty-five
per cent of their normal food i'm
,Orts, or the chances are that they
will be out OF the fghting by De-
,ember, and we Will be left to settle
with Germany alone.
THE people in this country have
lot beer getting the facts as to the
sNb lOhNl.t0H VI Ni' NlAuhi'Ohs hANA
seems to be no realization among the
great mass of the people of this coun-
Try that we not only are at war, in
he greatest war the world has ever
Known, but that our efforts alone can
sustain our Allies and keep them on
the fighting line.
War INOr Democracy.
"Only q very small percentage of
the people are responding or will re-
pond to all this talk OF "a war for
"a war for American
Ideals and war for humanity
"They must be made to realize
that it comes much closer to them
than that.
1T was fear that brought France
into the war effectively from the
start Fear that was natural with
an invading army on French soil and
on Paris. Ii took England
however, nearly a year and a half to
reach the point of fear oad to get
into the war effectively. Unless the
people OF the United States are made