THE NORTH AMERICAN FOUNDED IN 1771 The Oldest Daily Newspaper in America DESCENDANT OF THE WEEKLY PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE FOUNDED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN 1728 Issued Every Day in the Year THE NORTH AMERICAN COMPANY THE NORTH AMERICAN BUILDING THE WAR A SECOND VOLUME EDITORIALS FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA FEBRUARY, 1915-JULY. 1916 PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY EAST WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA A Copyright, 1916, by The North American Company Set up and electrotyped by The North American FOREWORD HEN this newspaper, in April, 1915, issued a book containing some of its principal editorials on the war up to that time, the experiment seemed of doubtful value. A daily journal's comments upon current news, necessarily produced in haste and before the full significance of events is made clear, seldom call for permanent preservation. But these articles, dealing with fundamental issues of the conflict and its historical, political and economic aspects, rather than with isolated incidents, aroused unusual attention, and, in response to many suggestions, they were put forth in collected form for ready reference. Requests for publication of a second series of the editorials have been even more numerous and urgent, and it is believed that the present volume will be as acceptable as the first, in that it supplements and extends the earlier survey of the great conflict and illuminates later developments. The first volume covered events from the beginning of the war to the operations at Gallipoli. The accompanying articles, presented in chronological order, deal with the record from that time down to the opening of the present phase, at the Battle of the Somme. THE NORTH AMERICAN. Philadelphia, August 10, 1916. |