Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-01-19

BY YOU in your trade union aims 10
which you have had any response
from anybody in Germany who has got
any authority to speak7 Not one. /
will tell you another fact which IS
very significant. There has been no
civilian answer at all.
Conferences Held
There have been conferences hur-
riedly called together. Generals Won
Hindenburg and Won LudendOrff were
brought back from their armies in
great hurry to Berlin. but Herr Won
Kuehimann has not been allowed to
speak Why? II il means anything.
it means this: That the Prussian mil
itary power is dominant and the an
swer which is TO be given to civiliza-
ton is an answer which will be given
from the lannon's mouth. Do not let
US harbOr any illusions
You might as well stop fighting.
unless you are going TO do il we'll II
you are not going to do il with all your
might il is real murder of the gallant
fellows who have stood there for three
years
You either have got TO put your
whole strength into it. OF just do what
is done in the Russian army and tell
those brave fellows that they can go
home whenever they like and no one
viii stop them.
Believe me. if there are men who
say they will not do into the trenches.
then the men who are in the trenches
have a right TO say. Neither will we
remain here
Suppose our men should leave the
trenches. would that end the war;
Yes. il would: but what sort Of an end?
When the Russians ceased fighting
and simply talked ideals and princi-
pies with the German army. did the
German army retreat No. They
took Riga and the islands. Fraterni-
zatiOn did not prevent their marching
forward II Petrograd had been near
er they would have taken it also.
~The channel ports are not so far
from the fighting line. and unless we
are prepared to stand up with the
whole might of people who are dOmi-
mating Germany now. and will domi-
nate the world tomorrow. If we allow
them. we i'll find that Great Britain
and the British democracy. the French
democracy and the democracy of Eu-
rope will be at the mercy of the most
cruel military autOcracy the world has
ever seen
What sort OF terms do you think
We would get from General Won Hin
denburg if we said to him. We want
you to clear out OF Belgium Ha
would say in his heart. You cannot
turn me out of Belgium with trade IN
ion resolutions
The Line Broken
But | viii tell YOU the answer you
can give him: We can and will turn
you out of Belgium with trade unioa
guns and trade unionists behind them.
They have broken his line already. and
if we endure with the spirit OF our
fathers and the spirit that has made
the greatness of this land its power,
its prestige and its honor. We shall yet
be able TO carry to conviction. TO carry
10 triumph. TO carry to reality, TO car
" as an essential part of the story OF
the world. the great aim that YOU in
your own language. that the govern
ment in their language and President
Wilson in his noble language have
been proclaiming in the last few days
has overlOng survived the failure OF
its adherents to be ready 10 die. for II.
Plain Terms
Last night this measure was car
ried in the House of Commons with
out a dissenting vote. Democracy put
in plain terms. is government by ma
jOTity of the people. If one profes-
sion. one trade. one section or one
class in community claims 10 be i'm
mune from obligations which are i'm
posed upon the rest. that is funda-
mental travesty o. the principles OF
democracy-that is the setting up OF
a new autocracy You and | in the
past have been fighting against priv;
-ege-. l hope you shall be fighting on
the same side again
We are fighting now against privi-