The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-17
REGION OF PRESIDENTS PoLiTl CAL FOES GIVE HIM WARM
 EST WELCOME OF TOUR.
OFFICIAL WAR LOSSES
186 Billions of Dollars and 7 1-2 Mil lions of Lives Make Up Cost of Great trugge-AudIences
 Ashast.
By Mount Clemens News Bureau.

By Mount Clemens News Bureau.
 Aboard President Wilson's Special Traia.-The great Northwest may be part of the enemy's country for President Wilson, at least, so far as the League of Nations project is con- cerned, but as he and his travelling companions look back upon 1t. as they speed South along the Pacific coast toward San Francisco, it is diff ficult for any of them to believe that such is the case: the warmest and Doisest throngs that greeted him any where thus far, in the course of hs long journey, were those that bade him welcome to Tacoma and Seattle, 1T, the State of Washington, whose senatorial representative, Poindex- ter, is one of the principal foes of the league; and then, down in Port land, the metropolis of Oregon, he was given an ovation quite as fer vent and heart-warming. Western hospitality" say those rew, who out spokenly oppose League of any sort. Tut it was scarcely Western hospi- tality,' delightful es that is, which has brought thunders of cheers each time the president had represented telling point in his addresses, and which had induced unconcealed tears as he pointed out some of the spe- cific horrors and extravagances of the war just concluded, which, he de- clares, will be the last war if the league plan is adopted.
 Cost of World War.
 Deeply impressive were the figures of the cost of the late war, in lives and dollors, making public the off cial statistics for the first time. MT Wilson said It cost great Britain and her dominions, $3S,000, ,000. 900; France, $2s,OOO.OOO, ,0Oo; the United States. s22.ooOyooo,oOO; Russia, $1S,- 000, 100000; Italy, $13.O0o,000. and a total including Japan, Belgium, and other small countries og sl23. 3.O00, ,000,- 000." It cost the Central Powers as follows: Germany $39,000, ,000, ,000; Austria Hungary. $21.00o,Ooo, ,OOO; Turkey and Bulgaria, $3.000,000, a grand total of $186, ,000, ,0o0, 900 to save civilization and now the question is, are we going to keep it saved? The expenditures of the United States were at the rate of $1,O0o, ,000 an hour. including the night hours for two years. "The battle deaths, and this is the cost that touches our hearts, were: Russia 1,700.000; Germany l. 100000; France 1,3S0000; Great Britain, 100000; Italy, 3e4,000; Uni ,ed States, 50,300; the total for all belligerents, 7,450,20O war dead on the field of battle" The total of all battle deaths in all tho WIS of the world, from 1793 to 1914, was under 6,000.000, so that in all the wars of the world for more than one hundred years. fewer men died than have been killed upon, the field of battle in the last five years. There are terrible facts, my fellow citizens, and we ought never to forget them. We went into this .war te do thing that was fundamental the world. and what have come. out upon this journey for is to ascertain whether the coun- try has forgotten or not. I have found out alreadyy~the country has not for gotten, and 1t never will permit any man who stands in the way of the fulfillment of these great pledges, ever to~ forget the sorrowful day swhen he made tEy attempt" The presidents audiences seemed to stand aghast as they heard this recital and realized that the figures were not guesses or approximations, but the actual count of the toll of lives and treasure taken by civilizations great est tragedy. Then, in each case, tue silence in which they sat was dis pelled by applause and cheers as l.e pointed out the remedy for this, namely: arbitration, aid discussion instead of force of arms.
 Constantly he dwells upon this fact, that all the nations in rne League pledge themselves to do one of two things first to submit their differ ences to arbitration, in which case they will agree to the arbiters' de- cision, or, if unwilling to arbitratc, they agree to have their case dis II