Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. [ARTICLE]

PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY.

Cession of Porto Rico to the United States. Evacuation of Cuba. Cession of the Island of Guam in the Ladrones. Cession of the Philippine archipelago to the United States upon the payment of $20,000,000. Renunciation of all claims for indemnity. Religious liberty in the Carolines. Liberation of all political prisoners. Restoration of past treaties and commercial relations. The taking over of the Island of Kusaie, or Ualan. in the Carolines for a telegraphic and naval station. Cable station rights at other points in Spain’s jurisdiction. COST OF WAR TO MOTH NATION . Spain Loses. Cuba .$:;OO.OOO,OQ0 Philippines .450,i UO.UOO Porto Kleo .. 130,000,000 Cost of war 125.000,000 Loss of commerce 20,0'*0.(‘00 Thirty ships lost 30,''-00,000 Total $1,075,000,000 United t tates Loses. Maine 2,300,000 Cost of war 200,000,000 Indemnity to Spain 20,000,000 Total $222,500,000 Lost by the United States, about 253 men killed and about 1,324 wounded. About 2,000 men died in camp. These figures do not include the 206 sailors lost on the Maine or the men wHo have died of fever after being mustered out. Lives lost by Spain, about 2,500 killed and 3.000 wounded. No official statement of Spain’s losses has been made. WHAT WK GKT. Islands. Square miles. Population. Porto Rieo 3,500 806,708 Philippines 114.326 B,OOO.tXH) Sulu 030 75,000 Guam 120 8.561 lale of Pines 1,214 2,300 Totals ...120,110 8,892,760 This does not include Cuba, area 119,240 square miles, population 1,031,619. of which the United States has possession pending the establishment of a stable government there.