THE ISSUE AND THE OUTCOME

...No...

...We must win...

...That is now the issue...

...President, the German historian, Pro-fessor Meyer, in a book written since the be-ginning of the war in which he sums up the issues involved, or rather the issue, because it all resolves itself into one, uses this lan-guage: "The truth of the whole matter undoubted-ly is that the time has arrived when two distinct forms of state organization must face each other in a life-and-death struggle...

...Islam's fanaticism was grounded in the same design and made of the same stuff, but is broke upon the valor of Charles Martel's men at Tours...

...The Issue and the Outcome SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH In the United States Senate, March 18 NO MAN in this contest can be indifferent to the situation upon the theory that he is not geared up to some activity in connection with the war...

...So it is incumbent upon us to see to it that we do not break down industrially and agriculturally, as much as it is to see that we do not fail to supply the proper men at the front in France...

...We are simply meeting the test which brave men have met before, for this issue has been fought over and over again for 3,000 years...

...In such a contest and with such an issue we cannot lose...

...This is a war between the nations, and the question of victory depends upon which is best organized and best united in spirit and in purpose, industrially and economically...

...The only question is whether we shall, through efficiency and concerted and united action, win without unnecessary loss of life, unnecessary waste of treasure, or whether we shall through lack of unity in spirit and purpose, win only after fearful and unnecessary sacrifices...

...And now again somewhere on the battlefields of Europe the same fate awaits the hosts of irresponsible power...

...we cannot lose...

...Shall men, shall the people, be governed by some remorseless and soulless entity softly called the "state" or shall the instrumentali-ties of government yield alone and at all times to the wants and necessities, the hope3 and aspirations, of the masses...

...The elder Napoleon was obsessed by the same dream of world dominion, the same passion for military glory, that now obsesses those against whom we war...

...That question will determine who shall win this great conflict...

...Whether he is upon the farm, in the workshop, in the factory, or in the Taw office, he is in some measure contributing, if he is doing his duty...

...Whatever may have been our opinion in the beginning of the war, both sides realize now that this is not only a war between great nations, involving the interests of all their citizens, but that it is distinctly a war between systems of government, and it is so recognized...

...But he, too, saw his universal scepter depart when chance and fate, which sometimes war on the side of liberty turned from him on the field of Waterloo...

...We can no longer doubt the issue, and, notwithstanding some discouraging facts, we must not doubt the result...

...And now the issue is again made up, and again this dream of world dominion, this passion for military glory, torments the souls of our would-be masters...

...So sir, stripped of all incidental and con-fusing things, the problem which our soldiers will help to solve is whether the theory' of government exemplified in the faith of Abraham Lincoln shall prevail...

...The policies of Frederick the Great which would make of all human souls mere cogs in a vast military machine, and the policies of Washington which would make government the expression and the instrument of popular power are contending for supremacy on the battlefields of Europe...

...It is after all a war of ideas, a clash of systems, a death struggle of ideals...

...But the conflict was not conclusive...

...or if he is not doing his duty, he is menacing the great conflict in which we are now engaged...