Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
4 Precedent

r. or, as the poet says, we are the same that our fathers have been, we see the same sights that our fathers have seen we drink the same stream and we see the same sun. and we run the same course that our fathers did run. There Is a precedent for every thing, including allied intervention in Rus sia.
 When Napoleon invaded Spain and Port ugal and defeated the armies of these na- tions and set his brother upon one throne and one of his marshals on the other, con- ditions in these countries were not so very unlike those of Russia when the Hun as- sumed control via the bolshevik route. The Spanish people were upon the point of re- bellion against their ruling power and fell an easy prey to Napoleon generals. But they were free people. It was Spanish land and Spanish blood with centuries of Spanish tradition behind them that Ma poleon undertook to dominate. Spain sub mitted, because she had to submit but her sons took the field in guerilla warfare against the conqueror. They called upon England to help them drive out the invader and Sir Arthur Wellesley, afterwards the Duke of Wellington, was sent to Portugal with a small English army. The Pennin- sular campaigns followed and Napoleon's marshals were beaten one after the other by armies of which the English troops formed the nucleus. In the end Napoleon was driven out of Spain and he lost veteral troops there he needed sadly at Leipsic a few years later and worse still at Waterloo
 England moved her troops from Spain and Portugal as soon as their task was per formed and there was never any trouble afterwards no claims or counter claims or cloud or contention over the land and blood that Anglo-Saxon valor had redeemed from bondage Portugal never forgot. Spain, however, has proved ungrateful, and today maintains benevolent neutrality towards the great enemy of England today.
 Napoleon might well have died emperor of France and never forced to stand at Leipsic or go down in defeat at Waterloo if England had left him in undisputed con trol of Portugal and Spain. The English thrust from the Peninsula marked his first reverses It drained his thinning batallions It gave his beaten and demoralized enemies new confidence It was the first crack in his irresistible organization of military power and success. The English troops that stood so firm at Waterloo had beaten the French at Vittoria, Salamanca, Ciudad Rodriguo and on the Douro with the fa- nous Soult and Murat and Victor and Mas sena, those marshals who were the pillars of Napoleon's empire, in command. And so it was that, the invincibility of the French of that day having been disproved at Salamanca, these soldiers argued that 1t might well be disproved again at Waterloo. A state of mind of the infantry Is half the battle
 And at this time the Russian empire, be- trayed by group at home and despoiled by foreign power that seeks world dominion, can be saved only by the armed interven- ton of the friends of liberty. Every true Russian of the least intelligence and spark of patriotism knows that intervention by the allied nations means only temporary occupancy of his soil, and he knows that there will not be a single reservation that will conflict with his country's honor and future independence and freedom attached to this invasion He knows also that the German invaders have come to stay until driven out That they have seized his goods and his grain and his government. That they seek to organize his land to provide them with resources and cannon fodder for further wars.
 Any hesitation now on account of the bolshevik wall is only quibbling and weak ness and folly that will soon lead to dis