The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-19

Published in America.
Where. when and by whom?
In San Francisco, Oct. 10, 1913, by William Randolph
The first two excerpts are from a four-column signed edi-
tomal. and are in harmony with the rest of the article in that
it assumes for America all the glory and arrogates to Ameri-
ca the sole right to determine the conditions of peace. And in
so doing it impugns by cowardly insinuation the motives of
III allies, who for nearly four years. without us, stood in the
pathway of destruction while they painted the face of Europe
crimson with their blood and blanketed it with the corpses of
their dead.
Ri, for Them and their sacrifice what would there have
been of democracy to save?
And if America had listened to the pro-German pander-
ings of the Hearst who assumes now to tell us what to do no
democracy would be winning the war and no democracy
would have any voice in the peace terms that will follow the
war. At least America would not.
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There is not an American soldier in France who would
read that Hearst editorial to "a French, Belgian or British COM
rade. There is not one who could and hold his head erect, if
he thought it would be mistaken for the sentiment of America.
The losses of France alone in killed and manned are
more than all the Americans sent to France; the losses of
Russia before her collapse were more than all the
men we have sent to France; the losses of Italy alone
are more than all the men we have had in the fight
ing line; the losses of Belgium have been greater than
our own; the losses of Serbia have been greater than our
own; the losses of England last week were three-fourths of all
our losses in eighteen months. The losses of England last
month We're nearly double our losses for eighteen months;
while month by month the British casualties in single months
have more han doubled ur sacrifices since we entered the
war.
Hhu HOW HGuN uHIIDnS VI NIuCINdn HIVES dtN tNt
saved to us by Offering themselves i'm our stead?
After eighteen months we have 100000 men in France,
while Great Britain, with 100000 troops, is engaged in eight
theaters of war, France, Flanders, Italy, Greece, Palestine,
Mesopotamia, Persia and Egypt to say nothing of the garri-
sons in Malta and Gibraltar.
And how did we get to France? Something more than
sixty per cent of the American soldiers we have been able to
senG were carried in British ships after the war for the preser-
walton of democracy and civilization was nearly four years
old. And not a man nor a ship could have been sent from
America. the mother of republics, to the scenes of this world
struggle for liberty but for the British navy.
All glory to the American soldier and marine and to the
American navy, and there is glory enough for all" And
thank God the sentiment expressed at the head of this column
is not their sentiment nor that of the president who speaks
for their country.
France and Belgium, glorious in their courage and chival-
rous in their hour of distress. have shown their appreciation Of
rous. has shown like appreciation. The American soldier,
sailor and marine, from Pershing to the humblest private, have
understood. And there isn't an American worthy of the name
who would withhold from Belgium, who placed her body as
an obstacle only in the path of the invader, or from
France and England and the other defenders of liberty, one
iota of the glory that is due to them for making it possible, by
their heroic sacrifice, to save democracy or to make the world
safe for democracy. Without them there Would nave Deeh no
democracy to save.
In the final victory that now looms ahead THERE Is
GLORY ENOUGH FOR ALL"