The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-28
Calm of France Is Deadly;
Spells Hun Bully's Defeat
Bluster of Germans No More Worries French Than Does
Russian or Italian Disaster or Reverse in West
thought Of Thanksgiving for the
gift Of all this beauty Of sea and
sky and. shifting, breathing life,
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| thought Of thanksgiving for the
gift Of all this beauty of sea and
sky and. shifting, breathing life,
| fades away.
War, There .s war in the world. a
| war so colossal. SO reaching. that
| no human being, even in the most Sc
questered spot of this terrestrial uni
/ verse, can be free from its deadening
ituuch,
! y sudden rage fills the heart,
! Why should there be war; this war,
any war,
/ There is no sane mid but that stops
startled. to ask this unanswerable
question. no properly constituted soul
which does not cry out in an agony
tul condition.
We must stop IL There must be
no more war,
/ The rage against war, the passion
ate protest against the very possibility
of war is here from the highest to the
lowest, for these are human people,
and cruelty is abhorrent to them; but
teSactly because the rage against this
war and all war. is in them, they have
/ fought aud are fighting, at the side
a
'eourage which has never wavered from
the first, and will never WAIVER 20 the
last; for that Is the only way in Which
war is tn he stamped out,
There is no rage so terrific as that
(which holds itself calm; and that is
:, the sevrct of the l'reuchman's never
cha ngiug attitude toward this colossal
conflict; and it Is his greatest strength.
l IL 20 ,nrracflr
lcholoGy of events, it worries the Ger
d man, that Calmness of the French.
1t is apparently a reversal of racial
characteristics. that the German should
be nervous and the Frenchman phleg-
! matte,
! But there is Il reason.
| The Germans started this horrible
saturnalia Of murder as n game, and
they are playing it as a game. in
which they hope to win all they can.
aud keep all they get; or, losing, which
was later thought, give up the least
possible.
! There can be but one end to "A con-
| flict between the cold trickery of
greed and the passionate conservation
/ TO high purpose: for on that day when
honest men determine to be no more
Under the domination of murderous
| bully. the days of that bully are num-
lered.
| This one knows it.
| Let Russia collapse. and let the
German loudly proclaim that now the
| war is over, since there is no need to
wait for America: and let him loudly
! call that now his bea ten foes may come
| to the peace counter and haggie for
sach scraps of peace as may still be
/ bought
! mo answer from the French, except
! that their original purpose is UNI
changed, They will fight on until the
world is saved, and until the world is
! safe for humanity They are filled
with rage against war.
Let the Germans assiduously circu-
late blood eurdling reports about the
great offensive which. before America
can get into the war. is to be conduct
el with the troops released from Rus
sia and the answer is the same.
The French will meet the offensive,
and they will fight on, for they are
Oiled with n raSDH sasAiHAt MAR. and
6ey are determined 10 .eud- it. once and
Tor all. sssa $50
&Iset Italy meet q terrific yvversA and
0ere is but one answer to the blatant
SrpXipx. OF Germany. anxious to make
peace while the qditting In GOOD! Only.
! one answer: the French will fight on.