Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-11-24
1.-THE PRICE or PEACE"
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That was the light upon the face
of very English Tommy, of every
French Poilu, of every American
Doughboy. ''This thing must not
happen again!" The song that was
on their lips-the song was down in
their deepest nerve cell and muscle
fibre was the song made immortal in
the phrasing of the American woman
who wrote also "America the Beauti-
full" When Katherine Lee Bates
wrote "The New Crusade" she was
simply making vocal and beautiful
the inner urge that sent the common
man into the worlds most awful war.
THE NEW CRUSADE
Life is a trihe;
Honor is all;
Shoulder the rifle,
Answer the call.
"a NATION OF TRADERS"
WE'LL SHOW WHAT WE ARE,
FREEDOMS CRUSADERS
WHO WAR AGAINST WAR.
Battle is tragic;
Battle shall cease,
Ours is the magic
Mission of Peace.
Gladly we barter
Gold of our youth,
For Liberty's charter
Blood-sealed in truth,
"a NATION OF TRADERS"
WE'LL SHOW WHAT WE ARE,
FREEDOMS CRUSADERS
WHO WAR AGAINST WAR.
Sons of the granite,
Strong be our stroke,
Making this planet
Safe for the folk.
Life is but passion,
Sunshine on dew,
Forward to fashion
The old world anew!
"a NATION OF TRADERS"
WE'LL SHOW WHAT WE ARE,
FREEDOMS CRUSADERS
WHO WAR AGAINST WAR.
The Price They Paid
And oh my friends, what gigantic
price they paid. Money is more thai
money. 1t is coined life. It il
mems labor rendered exchangeabl
and productive. During. four year
of war there was spent-spent, did
say? Wiped off the face of the earth
a coined life amounting OF the un
thinkable total of $186,000, ,000,0 ,00C
This was only the direct cost of tn
war, not even including interest. TIL
indirect financial cost of the war wa
five times that amount. During tn
years 1793-1910 the money cost o
all the wars was only 5000 100000
And remember, that includes tn
twenty years of Napoleon's wars, tn
French Revolution, our Civil war, tn
Boer war, the Chino-Japanese wa
and Russo-Japanese wars, and man
more. In other words, the Worl
War wiped out in four years thirty
five times as much money value a
all the wars in the one hundred an
seventeen years between 1893 an
1910. And it is gone-gone beyon
recall.
But that wasn't all the price
Would to God that it were! The Ma
tional debt of the u. S., on which w
must pay interest, has been increas
ed by $23 ,946, 100000. It was onl
about one-and-a-quarter billions be
fore the war. The National debt q
Great Britain is heavier still. Upo
the shoulders of her people has bee
placed an added burden of $35, 1929
100000. And upon the "bloj
white" shoulders of the poor com
mon men of France has been place
the staggering increase of $39,679
100000. Frances total natione
wealth is S96,000,0O0,O0O Her ma
tional debt is $4,000, 100000. l
other words, every article in Franc
from a pin to an automobile is mort
gagged by war to fifty per cent of it
value. 1t has been said that tn
treaty of Versailles has mortgage
the lives of every living German an
Austrian to the end of his days. Blu
that is also true of France. It
true of the present generation i
England It is true only to lesse
extent of every one of us.
But-that wasn't all of the awfr
price that the great war paid fo
peace. The loss of flesh and bloc
life staggers the imagination. Their
were actually killed in battle 1868
900 men. An increased death rat
due to the war is estimated at 3O,47O
900. Due to a decreased birth rat
40,500,000 more. A total loss
flesh and blood of population al
most equal to the population of tn
whole United States, wiped from tn
earth! Today they might have bee
breathing this November air. Thei
eyes might have been shining as our
are shining. Their cheeks Nigh
have now been glowing with life an
the love of life. But they are gone
gone! have tried to make real t
myself the awful loss of men in az
tual battle. l have tried to ca
them before the eye of my imagins
tion. And I have estimated that
that 20,000,000 men who fell in battl