Weekly journal-miner., 1920-03-10
By D. J. Sullivan (Part Onc)

After the American nation had gone actively into the world war, delega- tions of leading statesmen of the al lied nations, great and small, came in turn to the United States, visited the national capital aid wreaths on the tomb of Washington, and in that sacred presence solemnly announced that their chief purpose in the war was to make the world safe for de- mocracy, for civilization and for hu- manity, or words to that effect. Al the same time each one of them knew that in the records of his gov ernment were secret contracts where by portions of Europe, Asia and Ali rica were to be divided among the contracting parties as material com pensation for their respective parts in the accomplishment of this great and noble purpose. The division and dis tribution were, of course, contingent on victory over the Central Powers.
 But the victory which finally came and made possible the distribution was not by the combination effected by these contracts. Instead, in May. 1918, after nearly four years effort to secure the victory, Russia had been crushed and was at the mercy of the Central Powers; Serbia and Roumania were in the same condi- ton; large portion of Italy was in the same state with little chance for redemption by Italians alone; Bel gium was almost wholly occupied by the Germans, and northern France was the same, and the French armies had been driven back almost to the gates of Paris, the British armies weer almost back to the English Channel, and England was threat ened with invasion, and the cry, More help or we perish" had gone across the Atlantic to the United States. And this was less than six months before the complete defeat and surrender of all the Central Pow CTS and their allies
 Today all the allied countries arc free from German occupation and arc practically safe from future German invasion. They have all, without eX- ception, acquired territory and eco homie advantages that before they were only able to dream of. And they arc all guaranteed reparation and in demniticS that were impossible under the conditions described or by any effort the original combination was capable of at that time. The natural question then is: How was this great change effected in so short tlnc:" And the indisputablc answer is: Because the United States had spent over thirty billion dollars, had raised an army of four million men, had sent two millions of them to Eu- rope and had set naval and military pace that was new to the world. And fins with the human sacrifice it in- voivod IS the price the United States paid for the allies present position aud ioI the worlds safety. Its known material benefits were comparatively small.
 Take two million men actively en- gagged and thirty billion dollars actu- ally spent from the combination of forces that finally won the war by ''close shave" and the remainder, whatever it may be, is the allies part in winning the war. Americas part was the spanning of the chasm that lay between partial defeat and ihc complete victory that carried with il all the material benefits to the al- lies mentioned above.
 The rapidity with bhich the Unit ed States emerged from state of almost total unpreparedness for war