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Show : ' WHY THEY QUIr From the emperor down to the hunible peasant the Germans had unbounded faith in their army; trained to the 'minute and always ready to cross the border at either side of the empire at a moment's notice. Heretofore when they have talked of peace they have invariably held Hip the sword as an alternative. "How are the mighty f alien !" After more than four years of warfare, during which fortune for-tune favored the Germans the .greater share of the time, the army has met it Waterloo, is fleeing before the, triumphant triumph-ant allies and the dream of the emperor is over." It has been apparent for some time that the once powerful Hun military machine was being broken by General 'och, and the Ne.w. York Evening Post comments as follows upon the spectacle presented: ', ,,. "We cannot understand how acute is the chill of fear which military defeat has cast-around the heart of the German people without recalling the relation of the German army to the German people. Kaiser metaphysics has exalted " the "state." The idea of the state as a super-of super-of the German mind to the progress of civilization. But too often when Germans Ger-mans have said the state they have meant the army With his army Frederick the Great built the "greatness of Prussia. ,'With his army Bismarck built the Ger-man Ger-man empire. The army has openly and boastfully been characterized as the defense de-fense and cement of German greatness. In his own thoughts and in the popular view, William II has been first the war lord and only secondarily the emperor. In the army the genius of the German peo- pie has been described as attaining its richest fruition. In the army there'found self expression all those admirable quali- 1 ties which German modesty has been so jfond of monopolizing loyalty, discipline 4aboriousness, forethought, educationally their, own confession.the ,Germans;have tput mtothelr'-army'thtf best of -themselvesand now the German army-has ibeen defeated. , i Others besides the Germans and their militarycchieftains thought the army of -the empire invincible, and it is related 'that former. President Reoseveltf who once witnessed, preview in company with the emperor, expressed, the opinionvthat with such an army he could "lick" the world.- which the kaiser has since tried to .do. As a matter of fact the German ar my is .inferior irt every wayv Its success at the beginning was due to long preparation. prepar-ation. Yet it failed to capture Paris when only a few miles distant and it could not destroy the "contemptible little army" of the British. Man for man the Germans have never been so good as the French and English, the latter including the Scotch, Irish, Welshmen, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, while it is not necessary to state that the Huns have never seen the backs of American Boldiers. The German array myth has been exploded by General Foch and great is the astonishment of the Berlin government govern-ment and the people throughout the length and breadth of the country which was supposed to have developed a race of super man. This conceit having been taken out of them, the Germans will no longer be inclined to swagger and throw' out their chests when their army is mentioned. men-tioned. Their day of exultation and idle boasting is over, their army has been whipped aria they must begin life auew at the foot of the ladder. They have no f rie'hds anywhere upon the surface of the earth and thoy can no longer bluff the weaker states into compliance with their demands. Their army was fairly good while it lasted, but it failed when the acid test came. Salt Lake. Tribune, |