Republican farmer., 1919-08-29
COST PER MAN X IN WORLD WAR WAS NOT HIGH Amount Only Little Above
 Costs In War of
 1898. CHARGES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION VOID Former Louisiana Governor Makes Expose In
 Speech.

Washington Aug. 25-I Interest," Ing comparison on the cost of tho world war to America with tba cost at which the war with Spai1 was fought back in 1898 is made by Rep- resentative !. Sanders, former governor of Louisiana, in a speech III the House of Representatives.
 complete refutation of Republican charGes of extravaganza was fur nlshed by Representative Sanders "ho showed that cost per man under arms to the United States was not much greater in the late war than during the Spanish war This des- plle the fact that everything the government needed to eouip. sustain and support it's army during the Iate war cost far more than back in tba hlhetes' in many instances a hundred per cent. more than the market prices that prevailed at that time.
 The period of real fighting in the 9pahlsh-American war was only dpout three months; officially. theI country was at war from the latterl part or April 1898. to April II, 1899. when the peace treaties wera ex changed' or a little less than a year The total number of men in the aro,v during the Spanish war was 27S oo0 of whom only small number ever reached Cuba. To prosecute that war cost the country $377, ,oOO, 900. or about S1,35O per man for a little less than a year of war, war fought in tuna, but a step away from th~e coast of the United States.
 Americas participation in the wcryd war dates from April, 1917 At the end of the present fiscal year. June So' 1919, the peace treaty still being unsigned, America had been at war with Germany two and a quarter years. The cost of that war to the United States is reckoned at s21 OOO,OOO,000, which, MT Sanders esti- mated is approximately $2,543 per year per man under arms for the two and quarter years
 In 1917 and 1918," said MT. San ders' just 20 years after the Spanish war when the price of everything had doubled and quadrupled, the price or the war per man was actu- ally heLd down to a negligible in crease over the cost per man in 1898.
 We raised, equipped and trans ported an army at a cost Der man less than 100 per cent. greater than It took to do the same thing in 1898. and we raised a better organized army; we equipped it better tha1i--x,a ulo ZO years ago; we transported if 0'oVO miles over hostile seas. where we had to face only a peaceful strait III loSS. And the cost was maintain ca at a level less than twice the cost per man or the previous war, and we cared for our soldiers better. gave them better food and eouipuept gave them more of 1t, and paid them more money and gave them moro benefits than we did during our war with Spain, and gave them more in combined salary and various war benefits, family allowances. insur- ance privileges, and so forth. than any nation ever gave it's fighting mon In this or any other war in history"
 NIT. sanders showed that in our war with Germany, had the daatb rate from disease been the same as in the Spanish war. losses iron, di sease alone would have been iron, September 1, 1917, to May 2. 1919 over 112,0OO men; they were actualIv less than 50,00O. Had the Civil War death rate prevailed, they would hve been over 227, GOO.
 Statistics show, Mir. Sanders point ed out, that had the death rate from malaria that prevailed during the Spanish war prevailed during the late war, deaths from that cause during the same period would have number ed 900; they were actually IS Had the Spanish war dysentery death ratS prevailed during the war with Ge-- many, they would have numbered over 6,00O; if the Civil War death rate had prevailed, they would have numbered 63,OOO. The deaths from dysentery actually numbered 42. Where one man died firm dysenterv during the late war, 1f2 died during the Spanish war and 1,5O0 during the Civil War.
 Another item which entered into the cost of the late war that of course did not appear in the others was aviation, which cost approxi- mately $1,OOO. 100000. Pay for sol diers. privates receiving s3O per month accounted for about $4,OOO,- 100000.
 After referring to the investigation of the food scandal of the Spanish war, when a court of inquiry, named under the direction of President Nc Kinley, characterized the handling of the supply as a colossal bun der" Mir. Sanders said:
 "Whateyer else may have been said by our men returned from over seas as to their hardships. none has yet said, to my knowledge, that in delible, nauseating meat was ever vice of his country in France.
 T contend that the great war, be- sides being a shining achievement in the cause of humanity, was an achievement in efficiency and econ omy unrivaled in the life of our na- tion, and the indisputable evidence of the history of all past wars bears out this assertion.
 Americas achievement in the war just ended is the marvel of the ages. and unstinted praise comes from all the world. and the nations that we rescued from the grasp os the Ps= stand even today amazed al the ra- pidity of our participation in the struggle Not a voice is raised in all the world at what we did or how we did it save here al home. The har- mony of the chorus of approval of all huma nity is rnarred in its com pleteness only by the critic in our midst and his criticism will be lost as the years go by the universal &C., claim accorded the splendid adminis- tration that so splendidly handled the splendid resources and splendid