The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-12
TO-DA Y
BY Arthur Brisbane

haps, what are the Allies Ndoing,
what is Foch's plan
Foch is a BASQUE, and comes of Z
race that for centuries has had bull
fighting for its chief athletic study.
He seems to be fighting the Prus-
sian bull, as his Basque ancestors
fought and destroyed many black
bull in years gone by.
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! The bull fighter lets the bull make
his rush and plants the sharp barbs
in its flesh. The bull, tired, bleeding,
! rests and attacks again. Again the
buli fighter watches him, waits for
him, torrents, and wounds him.
At last comes the final, fatal rush,
i when the sword of the MATADOR /
goes through into the bulls heart
I And that is the last of that particu-
lar bull.
| In Foch's methods you see bull
tlgter tactics, and are justified in the
hope that before long the crowd will
applaud, and the dead bull be drag
! ged out, bleeding, by the heels.
For further comfort remember this:
Germany is on French soil.
And the Allies have not set foot on
| German soil
/ But the Kaiser is shut up in his
Empire with his congenial friends,
the shifty Austrians, the rebellious.
Magyars and the barbarian Turks and
Bulgarians.
He is not CONQUERING FOR
EIGN TERRITORY. HE IS TRY
ING TO BREAK OUT OF PRIs-
, ON.
/ He is shut in, shut away from the
ocean, from the world, from freedom,
from prosperity, from supplies, from
food.
/ This attack in the west is another
i effort to break out of Jail.
| And Foch, the bullhghting jailer,
! is there top watch his direction, stab
him as he comes out, give him plenty
of room to tire himself, and at the
right moment GET HIM.
DON'T HAVE ANY DOUBT
ABOUT HOW THIS WAR WILL
END.
J When fighting round begins the
crowd near the prize ring forgetss all
else So it is with that prize ring of
the world in the western part of Eu-
rope, where civilized intelligence and
bloody autocracy are fighting for the
championship of history. 1t is diff
cult to think, ain1ess to talk, or any
thing else.
We all talk, our preachers preach
and our moralists write against the
brutality of war.
Yet the power to win a fight, deep
down in the human heart, is still the
measure of success throughout the
world
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How do you explain this?
II you read in history that some
well-trained prize-fghter. Yankee
Sullivan, for instance, or Morrissey.
had insulted Abraham Lincoln, beat
en- him up and knocked him uncon-
scious, your admiration for Lincoln
would have been no less. You would
have despised the brute that succeed
ed in knocking him down.
But it is different when a nation
makes of itself a prize-fghter, trains
| forty years, and succeeds in the be-
ginning, in its plans of murder.
| The national murdered demands
admiration. He actually gets it. And
nations that have been living lives of
seit-respect, honesty and peace and
planning nothing else, feel a sense of
I deep humiliation at the thought of
even temporary defeat by the profess
ional fighting, attacking power
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! England was attending to her bust
ness, France to hers. They Mad no
thought of murder or attack. but were
concentrated on the constructive
works of civilization.
At the same time powerful nation
under the hereditary control of a
murderous, medieval maniac, was
planning wholesale murder. And the
result, desperate effort to obtain
victory, may be seen now on the west
ern front.
1t is fact that if the nations on
posing Germany should be beaten
which will not happen-they, includ-
ing this country, would feel deep hui
initiation, disgrace. It means that DUR
standards are low and our civilization
only beginning.
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