rman war-machine which set on this war.

I make the following estimate of the casualties--killed, wounded,
missing, and prisoners--of the warring powers, omitting Turkey and
Japan, up to February 1, 1915:--

German........ 1,800,000
French........ 1,200,000
Russian....... 1,600,000
Austrian...... 1,300,000
Belgian....... 200,000
Servian....... 150,000
Montenegrin... 20,000
English....... 110,000
Total....... 6,280,000

Not in a hundred years, or since the Napoleonic wars of 1793 to 1815,
has there been any war approaching these casualties now reaching in six
months to six millions.

A remarkable statistical fact concerning the war, which I ran across in
London, was a computation that the deaths in the navy were
substantially equal to those in the army, from the beginning of the war
up into November. Of casualties in the army, only about 10 per cent
are deaths. There are few wounded to be returned home from a naval
disaster. When the English army had suffered about 60,000 casualties,
making about 6000 men killed, at the same time from the naval service
6000 boys in blue had gone down to watery graves.

CHAPTER XIV

IS IT THE PEOPLE'S WAR?

German Socialism--German Unity--A Reverse Political System--Business
Men without Political Influence--A Voice from the People--The German
War Lord.

In America there is no greater conflict of opinion than over the
question of the relations of the German people to the present war.
There are those who declare most emphatically that when the German
people once understand this war there will be revolution in Germany,
uprising of the socialists, and the sure overthrow of the Hohenzollern
dynasty.

Such opinions are not well based, and their authors do not understand
the German temperament, the principles of German government, German
organization, or German Socialism.

Socialism in Germany is neither of the destructive order of that in
Russia, nor of the wild varieties found in America; nor has it even the
order of the Socialism of England. Twenty years ago the Socialism of
Germany might be recorded as against the invasion of Belgium, and the
bonds of Socialism existing between Belgium, France, and Germany might
have interfered with the war programme.

But Socialism in Germany has passed the stage of labor-agitation.
Indeed, it has been transformed in the reign of the present Kaiser from
agitation against capitalism within the em