The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-08-21
FOR WHAT DIDTFIEY FIGHT AND
PAY?

la the battle of ST Mihiel, 55O, ,00(
| American soldiers fought, and manS
Eof them died. Kindly in civilian
life, they proved themselves fierce
| fighters when after the foe.
| An idea of the size of the struggle
can be obtained by comparing il
with the battle of Gettysburg, iI
which 100000 Northern soldiers
| fought.
r. The Meuse- Areonne struggle LASTED
AZ days, and 10000 American
soldiers risked their lives, many o
them making the supreme sacrifice
America had 2,O86. 600 soldiers il
France, of whom / $50 900 saw bat
tie service, more than $4,000 dying
n battle, total of 122, 500 overseas
ihaving died.
Tnere were $4,000 tAmeriean
soldiers and sailors wounded on the
western front.
! No tribute is so great as tC do JUS
tice to the eallantry shown by our
boys who turned the tide Of battle
and helped our bleeding Allies to q
victory, the French soldiers who
died in the struggle having number
J ed 1,385,O0O and the British. 9O0,-
900.
The warcost America muchmore,
| very much more, than 81 600, 900
an hour for tive years.
The people have paid and are pay
ing taxes on nearly everything; if
not directly, then Indirectly, on what
they wear aud eat and in rent.
The nations net debt as a resuIt
of the war is about 500, ,000.00O,00O,
or about $1,000 for every family,
which finally must be paid by the
toll of the family, for no matter who
pays it directly, in the end it comes
10 the consumer; and with interest
added it will amount to more than
$4,000, nearer $1,000 by the time it
is paid.
What was the object of all this
sacrifice Of life and treasure?
What do we owe to the men who
wen. over and risked their all?
What do we owe to the dead on
the fields of France!
What do we owe to those who
came MANNED for life?
What do we owe to those who gave
generously Of wealth and time?
What do We owe humanity!
Do we owe them an assured peace
for the future or do we owe them
endless pickering?
These who sacrificed over there
cry out that such a sacrifice shall
never be forced on humanity again.
Those who suffered in the trenches
would have themselves, their chill
dren and their children's, children,
spared from such an ordeal again.
They know the fierceness of the
death dealing instruments devised
by man; they know that another
world confiagration, carried On with
the knowledge gainee in this, would
all but wipe out humanity.
We all know that before this war
we were told that great armaments
worked for peace. and we know now
that that was not true; that they
meant death to mankind.
We have learned that peace can
be maintained throughout the world
only through an intelligent under
standing among the nations.
And the voices of those who have
gone and those who remain cry Out
for such an understanding.
TIL u derstanding, written into
the Gag ,e of Nations, is being ac-
cept d in Europe.
Our Con titution gives he United
States ooudters the power to accept
or reject the understanding accept
ed by other nations and before this
government for action.
Each Senator has right TO use
his own judgment, TO come to his
own conclusion, in the matter, but
he has no right to push aside Hu-
manity's cry, and to base that judg-
ment, to come to that conclusion,
en- the lines of party expediency.
There was no partisanship in the
fight on the French front; there was
no partisanship in buying of Liberty
bonds or giving to patriotic funds;
there should be no partisanship in
The contest in the United States
Senate, but unfortunately there is
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