Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04

Ien1Fal iark 10 Washington Square
in ten long summer days, America
is proud. and very properly proud. of
the great army she has poured into
France. 1t IS 100000 in round num-
bers. But Britain has already lost
100000 in dead and grievously
wounded, while $500. 900 have been
smitten by the pestilcnce called Ger.
| figures. They are official We know
some OF the details with a snournful
oNacGtude. During one month in
France in 1917 we had $1,000 men killed
In the first twelve months Of the war
We had $3.50 officers and 95 600 men
killed. During the month OF April this
year. as the result of the great battles
which began on March 81. 1915. we had
over 10000 casualties among officers
alone. OF course. we have killed and
wounded many Germans. But what
does that matter? What does il mat
ter how many Of the brutes are killed?
|, is our duty, duty put on us by
the laws We live under obey and swear
by. TO keep on killing them TIL they
cease TO plague mankind. have no
concern for Germans. You Americans
have frontier proverh: "A good lujun
is dead Injun" Until Germany casts
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back hundred years 20 the race which
produced some decent and useful mem
hers nf the body corporate. | shall
believe most firmly that the best Ger
man is d dead German. What does
.Erieve me most profoundly is the
knowledge that Britain-and every.
word | have written would be stulte-
fed II YOU did not realize that am
! proud of my own folk-haS lost tn.
/ flower OF her manhood, just as you, my
! honored friends in America. will lose
Il stock had TO replace II the million Of
/ your magnificent youth ~ France, and
, the other millions you viii on, in tn.
held until there are enough dead Ger
mans, are fated to show a casualty list
comparable with that OF Britain Hut
90 not misunderstood me My faith in
the destiny of our joint races is ST.
preme. Are not our dead the best war
ranty OF the past and the brightest hope
OF the future? They are our very own.
flesh Of our flesh and bono of our bone.
Thcy are at once our tribute and our
inspiration
BLOOD az DEAD SEED
OF MORE POWERFUL. RACE,
We who gave this holocaust must he
! worthy OF it. We who are lief, must
/ be more resolute, more kuightly. more
I grandly Indifferent 10 loss or suffering.
than those who have gone How can
il be otherwise? The cross they bore
the sacrifice they made is all tn.
lighter for us because Of their example
Inc 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 mower and greatness
the widest tseam ever dreamed bv en-
thusiastic Pan-German. Ii must be so
! IT is deduction based on the soundcst
HeorE OF life, the very essence of all
that afience has taught us either of
. ~ lie I
cannot blind nSe&s to the immediate
gaps in our raG& Our universities
are empty. OXforaAnd Cambridge CAV.
! 5000 Of theis undergraduates 10 tho
army In me nIs; year OF the war. and
may be held no the value Of a univer-
Si'y eduSAss8 these young men were
/ the nhtez4 rulers OF the British en-
ptSA' its Prime Ministers. its Secretaries
Of State. its judges. it's governors OF
iar-oft lands, it's parliamcntarians. law
( Scrs professors, scientists its un-
doubted leaders in every branch OF
human thought and endeavor. That IT,
part OF the price asked of us fM choos-
/ ing TO support Right as against Might.
/ ana II - heavI impost in itself
Again. we have lost nearly every Of
| hcer and man OF that small but su-
heroly efhcient army which we threw
INTO France early in August. 1914
/ Oddly enough, that army. a paid one
| never thought o: its own interests in
/ me great game Of life and death To
winch IL was committed Sir walter
NaieISh' professor Of English literature
- oNtord University. has pm; this phase
: o. Britain's entry into the war so clear
~ mat ! must quote him:
We nave sometimes fought in tn.
past Tor doubtful causes and for wrong
! '"uSes' hht TINS time there is no mis-
take. our cause IS better than we de-
serve; We embraced II by an ACT ~
iaith. and II is only by continuing in
mat iaith that we shall see ii through
ne i!ttie old army. when they went
I" FRANCE in August. 1914. aid not asI;
"hat prohts we're likely 10 come their
way. They knew thai there were rnrn
ph' they were willing to sacrifice
'he'hSeiVtS TO save deccRcy and
humanity from being tramplcd in III.
I 'aNd' This was the army that The Ger
mans called merccnary army, and it's