The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-07-20
Action of u. S. Doomed
Germany's Hopes for. World Rule

! are pooh-poohing the smallness OF the
numbers that you send.
"But let US lool' at it, How many
times have a hundred men with moral
purpose defeated thousands The
Americans who have gone to France
will do more for France by being
there than ten times the number in
training here.
"Why, your ambulance men have
been from the beginning an inspira-
ton to Frenchmen. | have met some
of your ambulance men and your avn
, ators in service over there. Many Of
them were young men who had no
purpose in life before the war. In
France they would have been called
| BoUlevardiers,'
Praises Ambulance Men.
IA big moral purpose drove them
into the war and / can say without
hattery that your ambulance men and
your aviators have reflected upon your
] country a measure of credit out of all
proportion to their numbers. Cour-
age, confidence, sagacity, skill-they
have shown them ALL In addition to
these men you have already given to
the war, 10000, possibly 10000 young
Americans who are fighting with the
British or French armies and most Of
whom have come in via Canada.
"Now it may be given to you, COM
ing in late, to win this war. You
gave the submarine to the world; you
must find an antidote for the subma-
rine and you will.
"You have even greater skill in APP
piled science than Germany. And l
say this with confidence that the war
will end within six months from the
finding of such an antidote. The on
iy thing Germany has succeeded with
is the submarine. She failed with her
airships; she produced no effect on the
military situation by her airships,
that is to say in England. And in the
field of war she has been beaten by
both France and England with the
aeroplane. -,
"This is not to say that you ought
not to train men-and train 100000,
1000, 900, 100000. 1t is not to say
that you ought not to build ships. You
must do both these things or the strug-
gle might perhaps leave America as
THE only upholder of civilization.
81 am not saying England can be
defeated. She can't. In one sense,
she can't. So long as she has coal and
food, Germany will not get to London
"But England is not alone. The de-
pletion of France by the war has been
terrible. And you must remember
Germany has twice the population Of
France. 1t is possible for France to
be defeated. 1t is to her imperishable
honor that she prevented the Germans
from reaching Paris.
Paris Meant Calais.
"Does the world stop to think what
would have happened if Joffre had
not succeeded at the battle of the
Marine?
"If the Germans had got to Paris
they would have got to Calais; they
! would have got to Petrograd. Italy
would not have entered the war; thu
Balkans would have been under thu
heel of Germany and Austria, and thu
! road to Bagdad would have been oper
to Germany.
eve talk as though German eye!
were fixed on Paris, London and Pc
trograd. We forget Emperor William
has had his eyes on an Eastern EN-
pire-Turkey and Asia, control O
Persia and control of the eastern
Mediterranean. He has been stopped
: in all that. He will never get to Bag
dad now. He had his eyes on Bagdad
; Petrograd, London, Paris and New
York.
ale will get neither, because every
thing else, 100000 people who hav'
never been beaten in war have entered
this conflict. / mean the American
people.
U-BOats might shell U. S.
az am wondering whether German
submarine will shell an American port
, | am certain that no German airship
will be able to drop bombs on Ameri
can towns. But if the horrid luck
an American transport should b.
sunk can imagine the thrill of under
standing and of horror that woul
! shake the nerves of the people in tn
most isolated corner of the land.
can imagine what will happen whel
some of your soldiers who have BEEF
Killed are DuIleu Oh tIle pdIIlSllCluo
Europe. | can imagine what effec
, will be produced when thousands o
your wounded return.
"In England we have learned tn
terrible lessons of war with the sigh
of the eyes. My own house in Londo,
is not 200 steps from private hospi
{ tai. have seen sights that make on
!. wish it were possible to commit muir
der without punishment-or even wit
punishment. ~
"The man who brought about thi
4 warw i'll never be punished adequately
and no torture of the inquisitiol
would be sufficient for his punishment
), "The people who brought it abou
! will pay terrible price.
"They have paid it.
"They will continue to pay it.
: ~But the price they pay, guilty, i
as nothing to what the allies pay, in
: nocent. You people of America woul
not be in this war if you believed tn
allies were guilty. You are in thi
!; war because you have seen tina
a Prussicn militarism is menace t
the well-being of the world and tn