Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-03

again to the station in the develop ment of Christian civilization which, but for that, would not have reached. So we have seen it in the destruction of the greatest autocracy, perhaps at least apparently the greatest-au- ocracy, Russia, whose alliance with the Entente Allies gave for the time the lie. to the proposal that they were fighting the cause of freedom against absolutism. That toppled over, and now we have arrayed on one side the democracies of the world against the military autocracies on the other.
 --at time. after two years and a half of struggle, that has tested the endurance nearly to the breaking point of the nations engaged. Ger many in that confidence that she has in the science of warfare has said: We will starve England into submis- sion and we will end the war and in the accomplishment of that she fore ed, because she had to force, into the ranks of her enemies, at a time when this war is to be determined by mon- ey, by resources, and by men, the nation that can furnish more money, more resources. more equipment and more men than any nation in the world.
 Not to Minimize the Task.
 And now. my friends, do not let us minimize the task we have before us. We Americans are a good people; we admit it, but one of our weaknesses is an ssumption-justified by a good many things that have saved us from egregious mistakes in the past that God looks after children, drunken men and the United States.
 We may have got beyond that re- liance; I do not know whether we have or not. but we are going to get beyond that reliance. Germany is not exhausted. She is. by reason of this system of fifty years standing. the greatest military nation that ever was organized. and she still has great fighting power; and she arrayed our selves as he enemy because, with that devotion to system, with that failure to understand the influence of moral 1 force in a people, she was contemp- tuous of what we, who had ignored military preparation, could do in this { war. That she has now made an I egregious error it is for us to show. | ,rt, were good many people who thought all we had to do was draw a check or several checks for billion dollars and that George" would do the fight | ing. This is not the case.
 "One of the things which has hap pened ought to give us the greatest ! hope and satisfaction. It is largely due to the gentleman who has just ad dressed us. the Secretary of War, and the President of this Administration. We have provided for million or per haps a million and half of men. That will probably not be enough. A great deal better than we should make over preparation in a matter in which the
  ed, than that we should make under preparation.
 What has been said only wish to repeat. and that is while we can intel lectually perhaps visualize the war, if in our hearts feel it is something apart from us.
 "I read the other day MT. Bhitling i Sees It Through" and studied the phycbolocical development of the com ing of the war to him. That is what we have got to do. We shall not real ] ize what the war is until our men, those beloved with us. have been ex- rosed to the dreadful dangers. to the character of wounding that is so hor- rible under this modern system of wr-fare; and until we all go to the bulletins and study the names to see whether those who are near and dear to us have taken for their country's sake. Then the war will come in to us. Then there will be nothing but fhe war. and everything else will be incidental: and until that psychologi- cal change has come. we shall not fret l the whole measure of our duty as we must feel in order to carry this war through"
 War Not Yet Realized.
 MT. Davidson made this comment:
 Cur great trouble today is that our