The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-31
mining and Scientific Press.)

We are living in days when sue
cessive crises fail to shock our imas-
ination, just as the frequent recital OF
horrors makes callous our feelings
Nevertheless the moment is full of
significant events. The pronounce
ments of the premier of Great Britain
and the president Of the United States
have been published so nearly togeth-
err as to emphasize the essential soli-
darity of the two English speaking ma
lions and to hearten their peoples with
the assurance that the two govern.
ments know what course they are
steering. The war has reached that
crucial stage when the actual fighting
is subordinated to political considera-
tons, because the apparent absence Of
decision on the battlefield is joined
to the hardships that winter brings
upon the warning peoples. The men
at the front-our gallant defenders in
the trenches-do not doubt the issue,
we do not doubt them, but they are
asking if the people at home Will SEE
it through, if they will hold firmly to
the end Signs multiply that the ma
lions of Europe are weary of fighting,
they count their losses and ask anx-
iously how long?" Lack of food and
fuel begins to sap the ardor of the on
slaught. This is the moment when the
quilted falters and the sticker stays;
in conventional language the morale
of some Of the belligerents appears to
be weakening. Shall frightfulness
triumph over a blood soaked. world;
shall the outlaw be conciliated with
fresh scraps of paper? France lifts
mournful face in which firm resolve
CLEANS undismayed; Britain smiles
with the set teeth Of q bull dog; Am
erica raises her hand and shouts, 1--WE
If there is to be any quit
ting, it will not be among these Our
leaders have stated our aims-enough
of that-it is hits that count hence
forth. Peace talk, with its poison gas
OF bolshevik anarchy, must await the
only conclusion that will restore CIV
lllzatlon Germany has seeded |
from civilization. The world cannot |
remain half slave and half free. Either
this canker of military ruthlessness
must be cut out or we relapse to a
scientific barbarism. Are we to be
,ogs in an internal machine or citizens
each in his own democracy, free to
live and let live? 1t Is one or the
other The Prussian has not changed
he spirit of his paranoiac dream. the
Pan German still hopes to make good
Ills will to conquer. A few days ago
General Won Lieb in a speech before
he German Conservative congress
aid: I'VE must recognize only one
principle, namely, that might is ri ght.
md must know neither sentiment, nor
Of humanity, nor COM
'assion. We must have Belgium and
lorthern France The curse of God
upon the French. France must be
lied white We must have a strong
eace.' There speaks the voice of the
east with the brains Of an engineer,
ndaunted by the worlds reprobation, Il
for the butchery he has pro- L
oked. In every great war there comes I
moment when the issue seems either Il
oubtful or unsettled; that is the mo- {
ient when moral courage gives new 4
dge to physical bravery Such 7
lme came after three years of the Il
ivil war; such a time came in the i
3apoleonic. struggle after the battle Of z
'riedland, when the allies signed the 3
realty Of. Tilsit and legalized Napol-
on's conquests, thereby committing
Europe to eight more years Of warfare.
t Friedland the Russian army was 30 IA,
ably beaten that the car and the h
ing of Prussia capitulated. But .
ngland continued to fight Napoleon b