A tabulation of the estimates of casualties and the money cost of the war reveals the enormous price paid by humanity to convince a military-mad Germanic caste that Right and not Might must hereafter rule the world. These figures do not include Serbian losses, which are unavailable. Following is the tabulation: THE ENTENTE ALLIES Russia 7,000,000 France 4,000,000 British Empire (official) 3,049,992 Italy 1,000,000 Belgium 350,000 Roumania 200,000 United States (official) 236,117 ---------- Total 15,836,109 THE CENTRAL POWERS Germany 6,338,000 Austria-Hungary 4,500,000 Turkey 750,000 Bulgaria 200,000 ---------- Total 11,788,000 Grand total of estimated casualties, 27,624,109, of which the dead alone number perhaps 7,000,000. THE ENTENTE ALLIES Russia $30,000,000,000 Britain 52,000,000,000 France 32,000,000,000 United States 40,000,000,000 Italy 12,000,000,000 Roumania 3,000,000,000 Serbia 3,000,000,000 ---------------- Total $172,000,000,000 THE CENTRAL POWERS Germany $45,000,000,000 Austria-Hungary 25,000,000,000 Turkey 5,000,000,000 Bulgaria 2,000,000,000 ---------------- Total $77,000,000,000 Grand total of estimated cost in money, $249,000,000,000. Was the cost too heavy? Was the price of international liberty paid in human lives and in sacrifices untold too great for the peace that followed? Even the most practical of money changers, the most sentimental pacifist, viewing the cost in connection with the liberation of whole nations, with the spread of enlightened liberty through oppressed and benighted lands, with the destruction of autocracy, of the military caste, and of Teutonic kultur in its materialistic aspect, must agree that the blood was well shed, the treasure well spent. Millions of gallant, eager youths learned how to die fearlessly and gloriously. They died to teach vandal nations that nevermore will humanity permit the exploitation of peoples for militaristic purposes. As Milton, the great philosopher poet, phrased the lesson taught to Germany on the fields of France: