Arizona republican., 1918-01-12

which, after an interval there would be room for friend and foe; a future In which personal and national free dom could be combined with the duties Of international law; a future in which science could once again be reconciled with mercy and humanity.
 What bloody toll, what intense ex- ertton, what infinite sarifices and what need of shreWd direction, lie between us and those brilliant. spacious days which we now can discern and toward which we are marching painfully and which, were we to fail, as fail we shall not, the world would see.
 ''We must put away from our minds all clouds of illusion. The task is un- finished and victory is not yet won. It may well be that the fiercest shock ! has yet to be sustained under and con- clusion of Armageddon have yet to be endured.
 Tt is a grim fact, which had better be plainly realized, for we are not afraid of facts and must face the truth unflinchingly, because by that means we shall succeed, that there is between the most moderate and diSinterested statements of sober minded opinion in Great Britain and America, on the one hand, and present hopes and ambitions of the Prussian military authority and the ruling classes in Prussia, on the other hand, a veritable abyss which no bridge can span at the present time.
 Tt is their hope and intention to vindicate by force of arms or to use their characteristic expression by blooA and iron the action which Germany has taken during the war and before the war and which they believe themselves capable of making good in the teeth of hated England and the scarcely less | hated America. In their view, the vio- lation of Belgium was a regrettable military necessity and the sufferings of her people are we'll deserved chas- tisement for their contumacy, and the sinking of the Lusitania was the legiti- mate action of war justified by the German military code. They salute l the announcement of the allied peace terms by the sinking of hospital ship | in defiance of the dearest convention D
 They hope and believe that it is in 1 their power to emerge from this strug- gle victorious and impenitent and with more power, more territory, more in- 1 fluence and more armament, than when they entered into it.
 MT. Churchill, addressing himself to Americans said that they had under taken an immense responsibility
 Never in history has so great na- tion undertaken so great a task" he declared; your weight is needed vitally in this struggle and is needed soon. He added that the allied nations have suffered severely and in maintaining ten or twelve million soldiers in the field had as a result three or four mil. lion graves.
 Our resources have been poured out our homes are scared with sorrow, ano our industries and finance and insti- tutions have been melted down in the crucible of the world war" MT. Church. ill declared. Come to our aidl Come with all your might and speed! Pour ir your brave men by every steamer tha' I crosses the Atlantic.
 Come in your thousands, but come at once to Europe. Build ships, whicf alone can support your might ana measureless strength.
 The German armies released iron the eastern front by the defeat of Rus sia,'' Mir. Churchill continued, lar, steadily traversing Germany as fast a. their deteriorated railways can carry them. They are on their way to tn, west in hundreds of thousands of mel with thousands of guns. The greates storm of all is gathering. The thun der clouds are banking up minute afte minute before our eyes. Let us not fo moment lose our unshakeable conf dence that right will triumph.
 Preparations for the reception 0 these hordes are not being overlooked Have good confidence and hasten b.