, 1915-09-11
A THOUSAND MILLION PEOPLE.

Adding it all together one finds that some
80 00, 600 square miles, and not far short OF
1000 coo, 600 people nre involved III the war.
BY far tue glenter part Of these colossal
totals falls to the share Of the Allies. In
Europe alone they own nearly SIX tunes rs
much territory ond govern over twice as
many people rs the Germlmes and their
Turkish ally while throughout the world
their land possessions are nearly thirteen
times as great and their population all but
six times as humorous as those Of their eue-
mics,
1t would be useless 10 attempt to compute
the financial or commercial resources that
the Powers are thus sqIandering on their
mutual destruction useless because the
figures would pass ut once into u merely
meaningless immen>ity. 1t couyey7 nothing
to be told that the Governments OF the bell
ligerent ) ates were ra.siuG III the year be
fore the war about - thousand and q halt
millions of revenue or that the annual iOlelgu
trade OF then peoples. when Wa, OF course,
but a f,ncDion Of tielr totnI buying and sell
ing, ran III the ueI9hb9urhood Of i've thou
spud millions. Such sums defy vital cumpre-
hens on. give them only TO suggest thnt
in point Of SIZE .jhe greatest Of all wars
j%nstiies It's title.
IN point Of the actual area. however, over
which the lighting has taken place.. lht pre-
seat Struggle nus not YET tefci"l a wider
compass lhau the Seven Ieai, Wa ~ tHb
Napoleonic wars. For al THAI. It IS SUIT.
cleutly dltfuaed. LIS SuUs have been ieald
on every ocean from the North Sea to the
Bay of Bengal, among the beanh7ldS "t Shan
tung, IN the islands of the Pacific, off the
CHILEAN coast and the Falkland Islands, on
the banks of the Nile, at the head of the
D..r,,,, G,If .I,n,y tba. nur,al Of tho Iiarrl
and Euphrate9, amid the wastes Of South
West Africa, the oil palms Of Togolnud aud
the Cameroons. the uplnnds OF East Africa,
in the Caucasus and the Italian Alps, III the
DurduueiIes AND Syria and across the Per
sian frontier, round the east coast Of Britain,
and over the heart Of Europe from Paris to
Warsaw, from Switzerland to the sea, from
the Danube to the Baltic.
o her wars have seeu huge armies-NapO-
leon "a hundred and three years ago crossed
the Nlemeu at the head Of s $1,000 men
but this one alone has witnessed some
2O.000,0 600 IN n uuder arms. o her wars
have been in the main wars Of soldiers this
is a wa of peoples.
Other wars have been expensive but IN
this one alone hus civilization spent ten OF
twelve million sterling u day on blowing
itself to pieces. o her wars were fought
when industliulism was still in it's infancy
and before the railway, The cable. the tele-
graph, the Steamship, and tho universal web
of commerce and credit had compressed hu-
1nauity for a thousand purposes into a single
sentiment aud interdependent organism
Their effects, therefore, we've CHI fly local
to the peoples immediately engaged ~ th"ln.
The eff OF this one are Worldwide.
DINER wars brought in their train a Iimited
disturbance and disorgamsatiou where this
ole br,ugs a universal cefaclysm. There IS
D obabIy not u solitary being on this planet
To-day who has not felt directly or indirectly.
for good or evil, III his own life or person on
interests the gigantic uphenv"l OF he pres
sent couhct.-Da Hy Nal, ,J1y 81