The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
SEWARD. ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER p, 1916

We are going to have peace. The brave rejection ot the German proposal only what nations consider neces- Say to preserve their hOnOr just small boy feels the bluff necessary when his opponent gives an indication or
 desire to stop hghting If the powers did not desire peace the thought of discussion of would not be harb- ored for moment Ii victory were m Sght Tor elther side the war would be carried on to the hunhatng con- oeSt of the other but the truth Is that both sides as every man with pair of eyes see that continuance of the war to decisive ending would mean such human holocaust that Europe the garden ot cYlzaon would be destroyed Just imagine what numbers Ot men nave already been lost Amsterdam recently produced an eStl mate of the losses of the allied nations for some peace organization and this estimate Is fifteen million men. Russia, 1t estimated by this apparently neutral body, has lost eight million alone. Germany 1t seems to 0e well determined has lost about four millions. Austria must have lost at least equal number and with Turkey ana Bulgaria added the total losses for the Central powers cannot be far short of millions The grand total IS twenty-five million of men in the best years Of their lives and in the years when they effective for the work lad down for human beings.
 But these losses were at least accompanied by great alterations in the relative positions of the opposing hosts The losses to from this time forward must be Su1- fered against strongly fortified positions and for the cap tlre of small areas the battle O the SOmme which be- can last July the British alone have lost about six hun dred thousand men, And what have they taken? They have gained little triangular space whose maXllnun eN- tent from the southern base northern apex the drec- ton of movement Is ten klOmeterS or SIX miles. In a space similar to that from Seward to Woodrow Park and with side length of twelve or fourteen meS more than half million human bodies were stretched wounded or dead If you stretch bodies engthwayS 1t will take only $50 of them to cover mile To reach from here to Mile
 it will take only 5ZSO of them and this IS only hun dreth part of the number lost to gain the same length ot ground In other words you could have one hundred such rows of bodies stretched across this valley here each TOW only fifty paceS apart and taking up the whole valley and stretching along for that six miles, Try to bring that picture home to yourself and then imagine what the con tnuance oG the war would be.
 And then let Us add to this the German loSSeSat Yer dun and the small gains made Also let add what the Germans lost in that six miles space where the British lost over half million And immediately to the right of the British the French also lost about half million in the same space of time since the offensive began in July And what has been gained Verdn by the Germans and by the Allies at the Somme? And if either had to gain, as they must twenty thirty times much what would the cost be?
 The chances are that all the beigerent nations sec retv in their hearts are blessing Woodrow Wilson.