Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-01-16

ANOTHER YEAR OF WAR
Probable Result as Forecasted by a Prom
inent Writer on the War

| War is like slow disease, but slow
, as has been the progress OF the world
!. patient. there have been no desperate
. moments in 1917 to compare with those
| of 1915. and the outlook tor the new
year Is only gloomy because of the
pain and agony. the sacrifice snd suffer
ings which all must see are inevitable.
We see our own sufferings and those
of our Allies, but we know that the
Germ ian's sufferlngs must be far great
er because of the conditions under
which he lives.
Europe could rot conquer Louis XIV,
but at the END OF the War of Spanish
Succession Louis had been cured of his
great ambition to rule Europe, and
France sank back exhausted from her
sacrifices doomed to the terrible
scour OF her Revolution.
The object Of this war is to destroy
the German belief that his people are
superior people to whom it is permitted
to break every law and violate every
convention of hun anity and decency In
the effort 10 dominate mankind.
Peace with the German. while he
holds 10 this doctrine, is impossible on
any terms, because no agreement would
outlast his return to strength.
And as this German view was nat
ional view. it can only be abolished
when the whole nation have been
brought to surrender il.
Lincoln in our Civil War saw that
there could be but one ending; tahr
compromise was impossible with those
who were determined to disrupt the
nation and who made their main de-
mand secession.
Ia this war We have passed the An.
tietam and the Gettysburg; we have
escaped the greatest peril; and it is
now merely question of time until BY |
suff fering, If not by conquest, the Ger
man people are driven to abandon that
portion Of their doctrine which threat
ems the safety of all nations.
Week by week and month by north
the casualty lists are the most potent
influence. Germany is bleeding to
death. her sons are falling to British.
French and Italian guns; they fell to
Russian and they will presently tail to
American.
Her enemies are dividing their
losses; she cannot divide hers. Last
year the French lost 800, 600 IN their
with the German; the Brit
sh. perhaps 800. 900; but the German
lost not less than million and prob
ably million and quarter. In 1916
he lost 700, 900 agslnst the French, an
equal number against the British, and
$50. 900 against the Russians and his
other foes. In the same year the Brit d
sh and French losses were perhaps 75O. q
OO apiece. In two years Germany has
ost 1000, 900 men in battle; France 1
title more than million; the British d
milIlun and half.
But Germany cannot continue to lose 5
It this rate against these enemies, and
n 1919, she will have to pay tribute to e
he United States also. o
10 win by attrltlon is a long road, IL
ut it Is sure road. More than this, o
t insures that after the war the Ger II
1ans will find themselves handicapped
or generation ut least. by the Dc. u
tructIon of their male population. I!
Al compared with her great indus.
lial rivals. the United States and Brit
in. Germany will be crippled for an
,definlte time. She is using I'D her 10
lture now. And so her local victor ~
g, like the tar more considerable vic. =,
'riss of Napoleon. can be endure ~
lth eQuanimlty. so long as the will to n
ght of the Allies remains unshaken. 10
We might have lost the war at the .
arne. or at Verdun. Germany might
ave won. had Russia gone and the
nited States renamed neutral, bat
ermany cannot win now unless the
erman really is super.man. and the on
merican. the Briton and the French ce
an, inferior and decadent people. ta
And If this we're true the Germans re
ould deserve to win.-American Re.
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