th. .-H-lilc\eni-n t of that ur-.-- task,
this is a new army. .\ew men. new
oHo-ers ta!;en from schools. bovs fmpi
schools, from i-olleffef". from .-ountinft
houses, lie \-f' i trained to war. never
iliouolit of war: many, perhaps, never
>ialulled ;? weapon - of wm iseneialy
never aix en an oppoi I unitv oi hand
linn sreat masses of men.
".They have faced the ki atest army ?
hi the world, the jrrentes army the
world has ever seen, ihe best equipped,
the hest trained, and they have beaten
them, beat-n them, beaten them.
"I have no doubt that Ihe old i'\ih|
tiets were better adapted to navigate
the parliamentary rive-. with its
shoals and shiftinR sands, and perhaps
for a eruise in home wrters. Hut a
I'abine: of t weut.x-three vas rather
topheavy for n irale. 1 do not sav that
this new ei aft is best adapted for pa:
lianicntary na\ifruti..n, but i am con
vinced that it is best r >r wai. Vou
?an't run a war with a saul edrin.
rhat is the meaning of tiir i "a Id net of
five
MMU l.t> ritoi I. \ I >1 ATlo \ % I.
i.K\*r w iin.i-j \\ a i: i'ovtim i-:s
There hundreds of thousands
who have fiiven their li.x-s: there are
millions who have yive'i ujt comfort
able homes and exchanged them for
?'atlj communion with death. :iulti
tudes have siven itp those whom ihev
loved best. I.et the tuition as a whole
plare its comforts, it- luxuries, i s in
dulg-noes. its eleanndes on the na
tional altai consecrated by such sac
ritii-es as tiiese men have made. |^t
us proclaim during the war a muional
1-eni. I be nation will he better ami
stronger for it, mentally and morallv.
