Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-04
Fourth Of July

The record of American troop move ments to France during 1918 makes the finest reading for Fourth of July since the declaration of Independence was written. Let us sec In January, 1918 we sent 46,000 men across the Atlantic to help England and France beat the Hun. In Feb ruary, 48,0O0; in March, 63,000; in April, l7000; in May, 244,000; in June, 276,- GOO; about 600,000 in all
 In August l7Sl, just L 37 years ago, the greatest American troop movement of all that period of eight years of war that marked our birth as nation was made when Washington marched with 5000 American and 1000 French soldiers to in tablished with 5000 British troops Mark the numbers; mark the alignment on that epochal August day, 37 years ago. The main American army under the command CT in chief, himself, reinforced by our ally. totaled only 5000 men. The largest Eng fish army in this country at that time was the force in Yorktown under Cornwallis, as it totaled 5000 men. We were fighting Eng land; France was our ally.
 And during six months of this year we sent S00,000 soldiers across the Atlantic ocean to fight with France and England in a world war A little over 100 years ago we could muster but 5000 men in our larg- est army for our greatest undertaking of our war for independence. Our ally sent 1000 men to help us. Our enemy, Eng land sent only about 40, 900 men to Amer ica during the entire war of the revolution, covering period of eight years.
 The greatest battle of the revolutionary war was that fought at Brandywine when General Howe, leading l6,000 British troops defeated Washington, who had about l l ,000 colonials in his army. The Americans lost ,000 men here and the city of Philadelphia, and the British lost about 600 men. Lafayette was wounded in this battle
 And in the month of June alone we sent 276,000 American soldiers to France to aid the British and to pay in rivers of blood for every drop of blood lost by the brave Lafayette in this battle.
 There was never a time in our history when 1t was so appropriate to talk of revo- lutionary battles as now. Never time when comparisons were so glorious. The baby republic of that day Is the giant that Is now striding to save those old nations that were great before we were born. Ah could the men who fought and builded then have known of today Could they have been given to see the troopships on the At lantic tide carrying million of their sons to France to fight for Liberty! That tide, upon which floated those few old wooden sailing ships of DeGrasse before Yorktown the day this nation was really born.
 And 37 years hence, when our children celebrate the Fourth of July! Will they, then, be able to make such glorious com parisons, juggling with the figures of their nations progress, like conjurer throwing shining balls in the sunlight of glory, as we make this dayp Will the work we are doing now, the sacrifices and the fighting and the achievements, loom as large to them in the shaping of history, as Wash ington's victory at Yorktown looms to us this day?
 Will the million men we sent to Europe in a twelve-month, ,,5ing the great Atlantic as though it were a canal and our keels a bridge, seem as small to them as Washing ton $ army at Yorktown seems to us now2 Will there be another Yorktown, this one in Germany, where American and French troops storm to victory? And will that vic- tory be as lasting in its effects as the one at Yorktown, Virginia?
 We have paid the debt of Lafayette with interest compounded throughout the years. and our English foes of yesterday are