The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-19
BoTH PEAcE ANp LlnERrY.


It is now midsummer. Germany has struck with full
force at the aesand failed defeat them They hav
recOiled and driven the enemy back. The American
forces in France number l,45O,OOO men. The frs
squadron Of Amercan-made and American-driven wal
planes has passed over the German armies American
soldiers are going to France at the rate of about 400
600 month Allied forces have landed at yladivostol
and the British contingent is already iOyulv At worl
fighting the Germans and Austrans at Ussuri north 81
Vladivostok The CzeChOSlOvaks have taken Irkutslx
The British have taken Baku The bolsheyki are flee
ing southwark from Archange Japanese forces which
will reach any dimensions necessary to execute their tasL
are soon to move into Siberia and stifen the CzechO
slovaks in their struggles with thhe Germans and Aus
TRANS. All is well on the Albanian and Macedonian
front, well in MesopOtana, Palestine and Armenia
Italy stands ready to administer another defeat to Aus
tria.
That is the situation from the point of view Of the al
lees How the two emperors of the enemy empires may
view the situation depends upon their information
They may have plans which encourage them to believe
that the paths of victory aare not all barred is prob
able however, that HOhenzoern at least is not decev-
ed He is cold calculator as mass murderers must be-
If he not an assessed egotst he would apply his
calculations to the actual situation with dangerous accu-
racy The world owes its escape in large measure to
his distortion of facts because of excessive seove and
absurd self-confdence.
Now that an enraged and armed world is administering
buetngs to his sefesteem HOhenzoern subjected to
psychological stress which may develop violent
reactions. He may suddenly acquire clear vision and
with his admittedly able advisers he may adopt
Of remarkable hrewdness in extcatng himself from the
many pitfalls that opening around him. Or he may
be another example Of the truth of the saying that
whom the gods would destroy thethy first make mad
by becoming Of insane egOst than ever ending
in stark fits of slaughter mania that will sacrifice friend
and foe alike and send him into thegrave with his own
blood his knife
Above all the, stupendous and cloudy panorama that
rolls before the worlds eye are Russia and America
mighty landmarks and towers Of strength Neither Of
these mountains can be budged They stand at either
side of Germany and in THE appointed time they will
impose their cruchng weight upon her. What Of the
fact that Russia shows volcanic activity? volcano
dangerous to its neighbor than to itself Probably
Hohenzolern would prefer any other nation in the world
for eastern neghbOr rather than Russia that he
perceves that he cannot contrOi Russia has been the
nightmare of Prussia for centuries and the reckoning will
be square until Russia has brought Prussia to
terms As the allies send into Russia the alley that stiff
fens and hardens the national spirit Germany knows that
the heartbreakng task Of rolling the Russians back must
be resumed again or some kind Of peace arranged which
will suffer Russia to have her There is rainbow
in the eastern skies for Germany.
To the westward the Atlantic, the storm Of war
grows blacker every day. What shall be thought Of the
nation that slow to wrath and deaf to the whs
per of peace by purchase? Where is the end Of Amer
cas preparations? Does American expect to fight for
ever that she assemblies millions of men, billions of dol
lars thousands of Ships tens of thousands of aipanes
and endless miles Of materials? Then where the goal
for which American is srivngwhat is 1t but the death
knell of Hohenzolern and Hapsburgism? The two en-
perors see this fact clearly if they other The
irresistible conflict between freedom and slavery is on
kill American go under.
The approaching end casts its shadow upon Hohenzo-
Term and Hapsburg. They may adopt any measure they
ke-the free world and the world about to become free
will not be bound by what these imperial potters may do
Peace may be postponed for while but these doomed
men if they see fit to bite the dust rather than hand
their swords but in the end there win be both and
liberty.
liberty. Washington Post.
BLUsTER IS BLUFFS LITTLE BROTHER.