Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-06-11

If you will allow me a little frank
speaking bn this subject, know a
certain clen7ent of men not uncon-'
nected with public affairs that i'm spite
OF the moEalists and the iron-bound
code. view this fact with houndless
content; and good and respectable
men at that. What they had hoped for
from the .hasty marriage, the hedge
priests and the official playing of Sir
Pandarus has come about in another
way. 1t lis not conventional, ii is
shocking to the national ideal which,
is Mrs Grundy; but the children will
&c born, nevertheless, and that is the
great thing in the minds OF thesc men.
For however revolving all these
I things may be. and howener.sor and
shameful. there is not u thinking
statesman in Europe but is weighed
down by tho appalling prospect of de-
populated and ruined countries that
plainly opens before us.
The question thrust with primitive
bluntness upon these statesmen ia
whether. when this war madness shall
suhs'de. there may be left enough
;t"ie-oodled mon to carry OH the busl-
ness of the nations.
" iAsA. sAIC tIlG lOSSGS so 11r'
Over Seven Hundred Thousand Dead!
In the opinion of the best Judges
tine total losses in killed, wounded and
missing, on all sides up to May l, in
Guiding all the fighting areas from
South Africa to the Hebrides. was
more than 100000 men.
OF these more than 100000 had been
killed. France alone mourns 100000 OF
Ter sons slain on the battle Ii ~.
More than 100000. This is ut the
rate of about 1900 "A month in killed.
If the war shall continue until the
fnd of the year, as the cooler prophets
agree it will, 1.,ij the present rate af
. slaughter shall continue, the Geath lis.s
by that time will amount 20 about
! 100000
| Probably 100000 others will have
been so crippled or disabled they will.
henccforth have little or no part in
! productive industry.
/ 1t is not only amputated limbs.
Thousands will have been blinded AMI
tens of thousands rendered insane
| we may believe then that in round
numbers by January ], 1916, 100000
will have been blotted by death or dis
| abliAg from the productive forces of
Europe.
States Necessity Above the. Moral
Code
! 1t is for these reasons THAT, the pros
i pect today in Great Britain is re-
sarded AS menacing. 1t is for these
, reasons that respectable citizen, not
/ before accused of lax principles, is
; moved to distribute circular. defend
Ing. ON the ground Of the necessities
/ of the state. the moral obliquity that
the stricter part of the mutton is. now
condemniag.
The men swept down in this nlael-
strom Of blood are the strongest and
best that Europe produces. The effes:
cf their loss upon industry and COM
merce no man can guess. 1 have tuiE-
eG with economists and sociologists
and none prctends to have reached u
conclusion. An immense number OF
widows and other dependents w,I be
lett; there will be fewer workers To
support theln Literally thousands: OF
towns. villages and hamlets have l,een
I,obliterated. II many Of these are. 10 TIC
',rebuilt. the demand for labor, VIII lie
for a time considerable. But why re-
uild towns for vanished p.'r.:tA-
ton?
1t is no wonder that most econom-
lists foresee a huge migration to the
Americas while whole tracts of Europe
are left tor u generation to be nothing
but oldering walls and desolate plains
Under these conditions. as you will
no doubt agree. the statesmen that are
prepared to overlook the ordinary
standards. even STANDARDS as iron.
bound as the British, are not withou,
a shadow of excuse.
Chaos having come again. the con.
mentions smash down with the rest.