Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-06-03 | Page 3 | The Secret of Moltke's Power

the secret of Molt kes power learn to condense is a bit of commonplace mon place advice often given to students of literary composition ant the lesson of the great field marshana mars haPa life shows the value of the admonition in every form of work from the management of an army to the writing of a letter there was no waste in moltke not even a waste of words and men said of him that he could be silent in many languages the reason was that he had learned to combine his faculties and direct them all in harmony to the purpose of the hour he needed all his energies after fter action and because even talk must draw to sustenance upon the nervous forces he said little he had brought his own faculties under drill and discipline and in like manner he could condense the energies of a kingdom into a cannon ball compact and irresistible he drew eight corps of the prussian army from divergent points and converged them the critical moment of battle as a lens concentrates the ann beams the center of the austrian army melted under the heat and when the sun went down upon the field austria had no longer either voice or vote in the politics of germany by hia infallible mathematics he worked out the doom of the french empire long before the challenge of napoleon came BO that when the proclamation of war was made he had nothing to do budr touch the little button that set in motion all the complex machinery of the german army and move it lika the sweep of a sword across france to the field of destiny by the ramparts of sedan M M in open court