Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-15

can it be otherwise? The cross they bore. the sacrifice they made. is all the lighter for us because of their example ! The blood of the martyrs is the seed ! of the Church of Christ The blood of our dead is the seed of a race which | shall transcend in power and great hess the widest dream ever dreamed | by an enthusiastic Pan-German. It must be so. It is deduction based on 1 the soundest theory of life, the very | essence of all that science has taught us either of men or of the lower ani- Imals. Put I cannot blind my eyes to Ithe immediate gaps in our ranks. Our universities are empty. Oxford and Cambridge gave eight thousand of their undergraduates to the army in the first year of the war, and, be 1t remembered, no matter what view may be held as to the value of a university education, these young men were the future rulers of the British Empire, it's prime ministers, it's secretaries of state. it's judges, it's governors of far off lands, it's parliamentarians, law yers, professors, scientists, it's un- doubted leaders in every branch of hu- man thought and endeaVor.
 That is part of the price asked of us for choosing to support Right against Might and it is a heavy impost | in itself Again. we have lest nearly ! every officer and man of that small | but superbly efficient army which we threw into France early in August, 1 1914 Oddly enough, that army, paid | one, never thought of its own interests l in the great game of life and death to | which it was committed Sir Walter 1. Raleigh. professor of English literat- | ure at Oxford University, has put this l phase of Britain's entry into the war so clearly that l must quote him:
 Wrong in the Past
 "We have sometimes fought in
 the past for doubtful causes and
 for wrong causes. but this time
 there is no mistake. Our cause
 is better than We deserve; we
 embraced it by an act of faith,
 and it is only by continuing in that
 faith that we shall see it through.
 The little old army, when they
 went tc France in August, 1914,
 did not ask what profits were
 likely to come their way. They
 knew that there were none. but
 they were willing to sacrifice
 themselves to save decency and
 humanity from being trampled in
 the mud. This was the army that
 Che Germans called a mercenary
 army, and its epitaph has been
 written by a good poet:
 These, in the day when heaven
 was falling,
 The hour when earth's founda- ticns fled
 Followed their mercenary calling,
 And took their wages and are dead.
 Their shoulders held the heavens suspended.
 They stood, and earth's fOunda- tions stay,
 What God abandoned these de-v tended,
 And saved the sum of things for pay.
 We must follow their example,
 for we shall never get betteri"
 And now I have done with the debit side of the ledger. for l count as dross the stupendOus figures which finance puts forward. At any rate, what good purpose will it serve if a layman tries to- state in dollars or pounds sterling the phenominal cost of this war? Mil lions, billions, the mind reels at the sum. One counts no longer as a bank CT even, but rather as an astronomer. Evidently much wisdom and even more forbearance will be needed be- fore the cost of this war is levied with reason and justice. Most certain ly it is a problem I cannot tackle.
 Son Seventeen Fronts
 It has been estimated that Britain | has fought on seventeen fronts during the past four years. One can readily | enumerate most of them. for her troops have been to the fore in Bel | gium. France, Italy, Serbia, Greece, J Russia, Palestine, MesOpOtamia, China | and North, East and West Africa, to | name only the main theatres of the | war. She and her colonies have raised | 715 million soldiers, and of this total | England's Cnot Great Britain's) pro- | portion is 60 per cent. In this regard | must remove misapprehension, or, | to be candid, nail down a Hun lie. | which has found credence in some | quarters. I shall not labor the point. It should suffice if I state with abso- lute authority that one man in every | seven and a half of the population of England is in the army. The same ration holds good of Scotland. Wales has contributed one man in every ten and a fifth, Ireland one man in every twenty-six and a third. and the over seas dominions one man in every fif- teen Those are the cold, hard facts