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Show GERMANY SHOULD TAKE NOTICE. A cameo condensation of the conditions confronting the people of the central powers is, first of all, that they have a combined population of 140,000,000, a combined wealth of .$134,000,000,000, a combined annual income of the population of $17,000,000,000; and, second, that the 'combined population of the entente allies is 426,000,000, the combined wealth $464,000,000,000, and the combined annual income of the people sixty-six and three-quarters billions. If the chancellories of the central powers do not take notice of the difference between these controlling factors in the central powers and in the entente allies, that in the end, whenever the end may be, the people of the central powers should take notice of the difference in these potential facts, and take that notice now. The chance of the central powers to win the war was lost at the end of the first three months of the war. After 40 years of preparation Germany did not win in the first days of the war. Germany and her allies in these first days utilized the best they had complete preparation in every details, masterful organization, and an inspiration born of the hope of a quick and decisive victory. The allies were then unprepared, unorganized, and completely stunned by the first blows of the war. Now they are prepared, pre-pared, have organization, have added materially to their numbers, and are fired with the hope of certain victory in the end. Congressman Campbell of Kansas. |