Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-09-27
WILSON iHHADES
HOUSE OF FOES
CARRIES HIS BATTLE FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS INTO
HOME OF HIS ENEMIES.
GIVES COST or GREAT VAR
informs Them c. Lives and Treasure
Poured 6at . Save
Civilization
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)

(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
Aboard Pfesidea. Wilson'S special
train-carryins Lis War against nose
who oppose the aaeH Zen IS the Uni
ted States OF th9 peace treaty apd the
covenant Of the League Of Nations in
to their households. President Wilson
last week invaded California.
And there. where the question on
which league opponents have ham
mered the hardest. tasl CT san TunS-
is of most interest. lie president found
the same enthusiasm among the PEG
rlo for peace and Tor Insurance.
against future Wars. The people want
the long CONTROVERSY ended. They
want this country ID be able TO again
turn its undivided attention 10 social,
economic ana Industrial development.
Their leaders may net feel this way,
but judging from tie expressions
which met The president ON every side.
The leaders have oYerstapped the
limits of the peoples patience in their
stubborn determination % force
change in the great document.
Must Take This League.
I'VE must take this League of Ma
tions, said the president, FOR there
is no way in which another can be
obtained without compelling recon
sideration by the powers And it
would sit very i'll upon my stomach to
take it back to Germany for considera-
ton
All ever the world people are look
ing to Us with eon1aaacs our rivals
along with the weaker nations. pray
Cod that the gentlemen who are de-
laying this thing may presently see it
IN a different light
Germany, ths president declared, is
taking new eoaiass from cur delay in
ratifying toe treaty and her news
papers ana public men We're again be-
coming arrog8ntlY ouf-spoken
Deeply impressive were the figures
q the cost OF The late war, in lives
and dollars It WAS the first time hat
the olaelal statistics have been made
public and Che tremendous totals
shocked the presidents audiences.
Shows Cost Of World Mar.
"The war said President Wilson,
cost Grea Britain aud and her Do
mains $4,000 100000; France $26,000,.
100000; the United States $4,000.
100000: Russia $l8,0o0,0o0, goo; Italy
$13,00o.0o Coo AMI a total, Including
the expenditures Of Japan, Belgium
and other small countries, Of $12S,000,-
oe0,000.
1T cost the Central Powers as fol-
lows: Germany S89,o00000,0 00 Aus
Iria-Hungary, $21,000,0o0o0O; Turkey
and Bulgaria $1,000. 100000.
The United States. the president
said, spent one million dollars an
hour night and day for two years in
is struggle to save civilization. All
this. however, fades into Insight
licance when the deaths by
battle are considered, declared
The president. Russia gave l.
100000 men; Germany 100000;
France 1,5300o0 Great Britain 900.
coo; Italy s64.o00 the United States
$1,000, IN all, almost 100000 men
persisted in The great struggle, or
100000 more men than died in al Of
the wars Of the previous 100 years.
Should Remember Recent Horrors.
"These aya terrible facts, and we
ought never to forget them. We went
into this war 10 do a thing That was
fundamental fer lhe world and what |
lave come out Ell this journey for is
To determine whether the country has |
forgotten CIR not have found out
Tire country haa not forgotten ana it
Wal never permit aag who stands
in tie way Of the fudnment of our
great pledges, ever 20 forget the sor-
roTEul day be made the attempt"
Arbitration and disoussion, the pres |
ilent pointed out, must replace force /
of arms in the settlement Of world
controversies. Constantly he daells
upon the fact that all The nations in
the League agaee to % one Of two
THINGS, first to submit their differences
to arbitration, in which case they
agree to abide by the decision rem
dered, or, if unwilling to arbitrate, to
have their case discussed by the Coun-
ell Of the League, in which case six
months IS granted for discussion
Three months must elaDse following
the result Of this last stem in arbitra-
ton 6esefa the nation concerned can
declare war
Holes OFT Hope Scr Ireland.
The president took advantage Of
questions pfopounded by the San Fran
cisco Laloe Council To Give tha infar-