Willmar tribune., 1919-09-24
Wilson |NVADES
HOUSE OF FOES
CARRIES HIS BATTLE FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS INTO
HOME OF HIS ENEMIES,
GIVES COST OF GREAT Wal
Informs Them Of Lives and Treasure
Poured Out to Save
Civilization.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)

Aboard President Wilson's Specia3
train-Carrying his war against those
who oppose the adoption by the Uni
ted States Of the peace treaty and 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, that Of Shan Tung-
is OF most interest, the president found
the same enthusiasm among the peo-
ple for peace and for insurance
against future wars. The people want
the long controversy ended. They
want this country to be able to again
turn its undivided attention to social.
economic and Industrial development.
Their leaders may not feel this way,
but judging from the expressions
which met the president on every side.
The leaders have overstepped the
limits Of the peoples patience in their
stubborn determination to force q
change in the great document.
muet I axe This League.
I'VE must take this League of Ma
uons." 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 Ill upon my stomach to
take it back to Germany for considera-
ton"
"All over the world people are look
ing to US with confidence our riva:s
along with the weaker nations. pray
God that the gentlemen who are de-
laying this thing may presently see it
in different light"
Germany. the president declared. is
taking new courage from our delay in
ratifying the treaty and her newy-
papers and public men we're again be-
coming arrogantly out-spoken,
Deeply impressive were the figures
Of the cost Of the late war, in lives
and dollars. 1t was the 6rst time that
the official statistics have been made
public and the tremendous totals
shocked the presidents audiences.
Shows Cost Of World War.
"The war; said President Wilson,
cost Great Britain and and her Do
mains sas,ooo,o 100000; France $26, ,o0o-
100000; the United States s22,000.-
100000; Russia $1s,ooo,o 900; Italy
$13, 900, 100000 and total, including
the expenditures of Japan, Belgium
and other small countries, OF $123.000.-
100000.
1T cost the Central Powers az fol.
lows: Germany $3e 5000. 900. 900; Aus
tria-Hungary, $21,Ooo,o 200, 900; Turkey
and Bulgaria $4,000, ,0o0,o 900.
"The United states," the president
said, spent one million dollars an
hour night and day for two years ia
its struggle to save civilization All
this, however. fades into insight
ncance when the deaths by
battle are considered. declared
the president. Russia gave l..
100000 men; Germany 100000:
France 1.380,000; Great Britain 900.
600; Italy 364,000; the United States
$4,000. In all, almost 7,500,0 men
perished in the great struggle, or
1,50O. 900 more men than died in all OF
the wars of the previous 100 years.
Should Remember Recent Horrors.
These are terrible facts. and We
ought never to forget them. We went
into this war to do q thing that was
fundamental for the world and what I
have come out on this journey for II
to determine whether the country has
forgotten OF not. T have found ont