The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-29
WHO WON THE WAR :?

, Germans were to be always forced
back, back, where they were never to
thrust successfully forward again
| And yet there was no confident hope.
| Anxious men and women. leading
spirits of France, attended the ceie-
bration OF the Fourth of July last
year in Paris out of generous cour-
tesy-with no heart for festivity, lit
tie zest for hope. But they came
| away with something new in their
hearts; they have themselves told us
So. The mere sight of our men, Of
their vigor, of the confidence that
showed itself in every movement OF
their stalwart figures and every turn
of their swinging march, in their
steady. comprehend:ng eyes and easy
| discipline, in the indomitable air that
| added spirit to everything they did
made every one who saw them that
memorable day realize that some
thing had happened that was much
more than mere incident in the
fighting, something very different
from the mere arrival Of fresh troops.
A great moral force had flung itself
, into the struggle. The fine physical
force of these spirited men spoke of
something more than bodily vigor.
| They carried the great ideals or a fire,
people in their hearts and with that
vision were unconquerable. Their very
presence brought reinsurance; their
fighting made victory certain"
In the light of all this, one finds IL
remarkable that protests against Sir
Douglas Haig's boast are not more
numerous than they are, for, in addl-
tion to contributing man-power. the
United States contributed money
power. AND the Paterson On. J)
Press observes:
The war could not have been won
without money. And save for that
| furnished by the United States not
one of the Nllicd nations would have
been able to carry on OF the stu
I
expended in the war. $9.3S4 900, ,O00
! was furnished our Allies TO help them
fight and live And no American will
for a moment admit that the worl,
OF our great army applied at the crisis
of the war when all military authori-
! ties have admitted that the situation
| of the Allies was desperate was not
I decisive OF the final victory
"Our country did not start this
dispute. But this Goes nor mean that
We, will allow any nation to get away
with all the honors."
Certainly not; and yet this insist
/ ence upon honOrs due us Is no hin
drancc TO our bcstowing honors whcr-
ever they are deserved and. even
. while the controversy is at it's hotteS'
( the New York Tribune thus belauds
/ the heroic devotion of our French
Allies:
France led the forces of civiliza-
/ tion from the first hour to the last
! Fate placed her in the front-line
! trench In the first onslaught hers
was the task of holGfng OF retreatinc
/ and holding, of rotreating again
and, at last, of striking back The
Marine is history 10y this time. the
greatest single battle of all time. in
its scope, in its valor, in its consc-
qnenccs TO mankind. Thereafter time
worked for civilization. France had
passed her greatest test and come
through with a spiritual glory beyond
compare.
"No black days thereafter could
dim that lustcr. Through our delay
the victory. saved at the Marne and
saved again at Verdun, was all bu,
lost. No hours of the whole war were
darker than the spring OF i9lS Th"r
came our test as a nation. The fall
ing torch was grasped by our hands
and rushed forward to a colossal tri
umph We proved ourselves worthy
comrades OF our Allies That is oul
boast and our pride"
WILLIAMS DENIES