Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — THE BALANCE SHEET. [ARTICLE]

THE BALANCE SHEET.

[New York Tribune.] On the debit side: Killed, 70,000,000. - Crippled, 20,000,000. Homes destroyed, 1,000,000. Money loss, $120,000,000,000. Anarchic conditions over one-half-of Europe and with difficulty kept out of the remainder. A social quackery which plies its trade' among peoples confused by losses that are reparable only by industry and thrift. On the credit side: A demonstration that liberty is so ,prized that to save it no sacrifice is too great. New proof that man is a moral being and reacts to moral ideals. A greater sense of fraternity among brothers of the soul who fought together. A chance that the lessons of the war will so sink in that hereafter gigantic evil would be stopped before it gets afoot. • A generation capable of performing the prodigies marking this one may claim it is master of its fate, ahd foresee, not far distant, the day when the mark of the Beast will be gone, but forever remaining, the glorious memory that he was successfully resisted.