Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-03
Saturday Morning, April 3, 1915.
PAVING FOR TIE WAR DAMAGE


 As the war grows in scope and cost and every na- involved begins already to feel the pinch of it look aghast at the devastation wrought the question forces itself more and fsont "Who is going pay the bHl?" And in every belligereo. capital statesmen and publicss busy dEuring-fo' the sake of keeping up their if for other son-how much they will oblige the to pay whs1 that same enemy shall have been beaten his kneo7 Never before, in any war; has the indemnity problem important because before has there bcel expenditure and destruction on a scale onetenth sn great
 A German writer named Rudolph Martin formerl5 minister of the interior recently tried his Land timatlng the terms his country would impose ths Allies at the close Of the war In addition to enormous territorial accessions, including Belgium, norther1 France. Russian Poland the Baltic provinces of Russia and all southern Russia together with and of the Asiatc and African colonies Of the Allies to ho distributed among Gern any. Austria and Turkey he tmaed that the Allies would be required to Iay mor ey indemnity of s3ooOOOOOOoO to sS75oOcoooOO VT. an added tax of about SIS OOooOO running lon period of years to compensate the dependent fsmiue of alain soldiers Germany Austria and Turkey we,s receive all this money the proportions Of l6, D and 4 respectively
 Now Jean Pinot. a noted French writer, wor.-- ing on the same arithmetica problem starting with the opposite hypothesis that it is the allies who going to win. By curious coincidence he arrives rt pretty nearly the same figures as Herr Martin IT, method of computation is interesting.
 First he seeks to find the direct cost to the aIict of maintaining their forces in the field for the duration of the war, which he puts twelve months. In ult Franco-Prusssn war the expense was about y3 a dar per soldier In the Boer it S72O for each Britisn soldier English experts estimate that the british arms. is now costing slO day per man. Pinot colseryadveT allows s4 day per soldier assumes that allie. armies will total 10000 900 That gives, tne twelve months an expense of S146OOOOOCOo
 The indirect cost he figures, due 70 damages in- acted by the Germans Belgium Poland and France, the destruction of factories. mines houses churchea railroads bridges property of all will amour. to as much more making total of nearly s8OOOoOOo. OO0
 To this vast he adds the estimated value O. the men slain or incapcated for work Previous war he says show that 10 per fthe numbers engage is a minimum probable loss. As the French army vl reach total 100000 men there will be no less thaa 100000 Frenchmen killed or rendered economically use French courts uAeu the Fdle or the lN craze human life at s5OOO H will require s2,OOOOOt GOO then to pay for tine lives taken by the enemy Fo the losses the other allies, he says Germany may log expected to pay s3OO00OOOOO S4.OoO.OOoOoO more.
 The grand total, he concludes, cannot ba placed a less than s34OOOO0OOOO which is precisely 34 time. as much as the fine imposed by Germany France al the end Of their last war-thus the biggest mdemn ever indicted in history
 How could Germany pay huge sum- M Fno has figured that out with the usual Trench clear ness and pauslbity. According German economists he says the wealth of the German Empire E 1913 wa estimated at sSO,OOOOOO00O German financial author ties have estimated Che annual Of te nation slOOOOOOOOOO The destruction of the German ship ping and foreign trade and manufacturing output To sutng from the war will greatly decrease those reyc nues for a while; the writer believes however tha there will stin be national income Of $75GJ0OOOJO o the basis Of hich the population of GSoooOOO can ai ford to pay enough taxes to discharge tle indeu nty.
 Germany has the advantage, M Pinot says, of start ing with a low tax rate-ordinsry only $l2 year pc prnssan against Si96O a year per Frenchman. Mere by raising their taxation Che French level Che Ger