New-York tribune., 1918-07-19

ourselves. This is not right
we have larger population and
greater resources than Germany or
than France and Great Britain taken
together. We have played poor part
in the early stages OF the world war.
Let us make the finishing of the war
an American task. BY this time next
year we ought to have overseas an army
as great as the combined armies Of
France and England. an army of be-
tween three and four million fighting
soldiers on the various fighting fronts,
and this. considering replacements and
non n-combatants, means at least SIX
million men.
Congress should refuse assent to the
War Departments present policy of
rocrastnation in defcrring the neces-
sary extension of the age limits for the
draft and in other ways. There should
be no further delay. Besides cnor~
mously strengthening our army in
France we should by this time have
declared war on Turkey and have sent
hundred thousand soldiers to aid our
allies in Western Asia. We have had
to use English ships to ferry our troops
across the Atlantic and we could use
japanese ships to ferry them across
the Pacific
"There must be no peace until Ger
!
her with a strangle-hold on Russia and,
through her vassal allies, Austria, Bull
garia and Turkey, dominant in Central
Europe and Asia Minor, would mean
that she had won the war and taken a
giant stride toward world dominion.
Must Raise Slavs' Sword
Belgium must be reinstated and re-
imbursed;; France must receive back
Asace and Lorraine; Turkey must be
driven from Europe. Armenia made
free, the Syrian Christians protected
and the Jews given Palestine Italian
Austria must go to Italy and Rumanian
Hungary TO Rumania. Moreover, We
must raise against the German menace
the sleeping sword OF the Slavs of
Central Europe; we must establish the
great free commemorative of the Poles.
I the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-Slav
and save the other submerged peoples
who are their neighbors.
unless we do all this, unless we
stand by all our allies who have stood
by US, we shall have failed in making
the liberty of well-behaved civilized
peoples secure, and we shall have shown
that our announcement about making
the world safe for democracy was an
empty boast.
"These are the tasks set us as regards
ii /.
Therefore, the men elected this fall
should not only be absolutely loyal but
possessed Of broad vision. sound COM
mon sense. high character and unyield-
ing resolution: for they must graphic
with tremendous international uues-
tions. A timid man, half hearted
paclist or n foolish visionary may do as
incalculable harm as the demagogue or
conscience!ess political trickster And
of course no disloyal man. and no man
Of merely lukewarm loyalty. should be
chosen, no matter what the ticket on
which he runs
"The Peoples War
Loyalty TO the people of the United
States is the prime need. This is the
peoples war 1t is not the Presidents
war It is not the war of Congress. II
is the war Of the people of the nited
States. Our wholehcarted and undi-
v.ded loyalty is due to the country as
whole, and to every public servant.
whc ther President or Senator. executive
official or Congressman. precisely to the
degree in which that public servant
disinterestcdly and efficiently serves the
country. We demand loyalty Of this
type, for II is the only loyalty proper
for sclf-rcSpecting American freemen.
"Fhc events Of the last year and a
ing "A Republican Congress, TO support
the Administration at every point where
lt acts vigorously in prosecuting the
Var, and TO supply It's deficiencies i'm
the prosecution Of the war and i'm the
carrying out of proper world policy
This country needs Congress which
Wall give the Administration this kind
OF vigorous support. and yet will fear.
les sly supervise and, when necessary,
investigate what is being done.
Since the war began the Republicans
IN Congress have acted IN 81 spirit Of
the largest patriotism and wholly with.
out regard to questions Of politic.. For
the Administration measures designed
on ffnclen'lv carrying on tho war they
nave furnished lnrger percentage o.
support than have ihe Democrats: and
where the Administration Was wrong
the bulk Of the Republicans have ven
turcd 70 withstand Il and have stood by
the country. whereas the bulk Of the
Democrat have not done so, although
there hnvc been some cousnicuous and
honorable exception 4 rs only by
such conduct Tint we cnn win the war
and secure the right kind Of peace
The need M Congress is for loyal
Americans. lar-sightcd strong willcd.
resoiuto. who shall represcn, The peo-
pic OF this country. and who shall stand
steadfastly by the nation as q whole.
ni,ersal Training Needed
80 much for the war. RAJ when we
have closed the giant var we must then
prepare for the giant tasks of peace.
l1rst and foremost, We should act ON
NRshtnRton's advice and in time Of
peace prepare against war. so that
never again hall VIC be caught in such
humiNatNg inability to defend our
selves and assert our ri9uts as has
been the case during the last four
years In democracy such prepare
ton should be the duty of the whole
people, and not merely part Of the
people
There should be universal obligatory
military training IN the field for n
period OF. shy. six months of all our
young men between the ugos Of nine
teen and tweuty-one. | wish there
could he Industrial training also; bat
the siN months period would have to
be heightened II any serious industrial
training Is 20 he added TO the military
training. Such training would instil
Iutn out people. Hn intense ard ~ fcvvant
Americanism which would forever free
us from the menace Of Boshevism and
all It's American variety. from the frank
homcidal march oF the l. W W. to the
sinister AmcricAnism of the Ger
mauizcd soclaistc pnrty.
The preparation for the tasks Of
peace must be in the Interest cf all our
people. of those who dwell in the omen
country mud Of those who dwell in the
cities, of all men who live honestly and
tool with hand or head, and of all