The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-04-06
CAMP AIGN
FOR WORLD RI
Is One That Interests the
Other Great Nations of
the World.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. April e.
Baron d,Estournelles de Constant. the
French missionary in the cause of in
ternational peace who is making a
tour of the country. spoke here to-
day. taking as his text The Cam
paign in Russia" The Baron said in
part:
General ignorance has been singu-
larly useful to governments in con-
cealing the consequence of their wars
from the eyes of public opinion.
For long time ] have been en-
deaworing in vain TO find out what the
wars during the Revolution and the
First Empire cost France in men, ex-
elusive OF anything else. The figures
vary from 100000 to 5000, 900.
Taking only the minimum and multi
plying it by several generau 1ns, 1 ind
that Frances population has been
reduced by 20OOO.OOOin the course OF
century. But for these wars we
should now in all probability. have a
population OF sixty million inhabitants
Instead OF forty who would, moreover,
be physically stronger, inasmuch, as
! without attempting to calculate the
consequences of drink, which has a
CLOSE connection with the matter
these wars eliminated the men best
fitted to perpetuate their kind. Even
| IL we limit ourselves to the immediate
consequences, we OBTAIN only doubt
full results.
I'VE must also take into account
the immense opportunities lost by
TFrenchImen in all parts of the world
and especially in America. The cour.
age and heroism displayed during a
quarter Of century of war were not
called into being by it, as some peo.
pie imagine, but were already in exls,
tence and ready to be utilized. in
France and abroad, to Further enter.
prises already begun. Though 1t was
abandoned after the Seven Years
War, the work accomplished by Car
ter, Champlain and La Sale. and lat
q on by Lafayette and RochanlSeau
none the less great though in diff
, ferent order of ideas-sowed the seeds
az an abundant harvest that French.
inent, in spite of all obstacles. might
have reaped. Here were openings FOL
our enterprise and our commerce
salvation for our shipping, our sea.
ports and river ports. Our influence
and our language would have extend
cd in all directions. We severed al
] these. ties, and instead of vivifying tn,
New World with French blood. We
fwatered the battlefelds OF Europ,
with it.
Under the head of losses, let me
tonfne myself to quoting the com
paratively optimistic estimate glver
E BY Napoleon himself. According t
raine, Napoleon said angrily to Met
ternich, in the course of their eigh
hour interview at Dresden on June
IS. 1919: What do you want OF me;
DO you expect me to dishonor myself?
Metternich WAS bold enough to reply
I have seen your soldiers: they are
mere children. What will you dc
when your army of youths has gone?
napoleon replied hotly: You are MOI
. soldier and you do not know what
passes in soldiers mind. have
grown up on the battlefield, and a
man like l am does not care ----
for the lives of million men.
ION another occasion. Napoleon re-
marked to NJ. de Maroonne accord
ing to the DUO de Broglle, quoted by
ITainc), After all the Russian cam
paign only cost me 100000 men, and
q great many of them were Germans.
His imperial chfmera devoured a
breat many more than this adds
Taine. From 1904 60 1915 the num-
Ter of killed amounted to more than
100000 Frenchmen born in France
Itself to which we can probably add
: 100000 men from outside its boun-
Galies killed while fighting for him as
allies or against him as enemies