"President Wilson, generally acclaimed as the leader of the world's democracies,\nphrased for civilization the arguments against autocracy in the great peace conference\nafter the war. The President headed the American delegation to that conclave of world\nre-construction. With him as delegates to the conference were Robert Lansing, Secretary\nof State; Henry White, former Ambassador to France and Italy; Edward M. House and\nGeneral Tasker H. Bliss.\nRepresenting American Labor at the International Labor conference held in Paris\nsimultaneously with the Peace Conference were Samuel Gompers, president of the\nAmerican Federation of Labor; William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine\nWorkers of America; John R. Alpine, president of the Plumbers' Union; James Duncan,\npresident of the International Association of Granite Cutters; Frank Duffy, president of\nthe United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the\nAmerican Federation of Labor.\nEstimating the share of each Allied nation in the great victory, mankind will\nconclude that the heaviest cost in proportion to prewar population and treasure was paid\nby the nations that first felt the shock of war, Belgium, Serbia, Poland and France. All\nfour were the battle-grounds of huge armies, oscillating in a bloody frenzy over once\nfertile fields and once prosperous towns.\nBelgium, with a population of 8,000,000, had a casualty list of more than 350,000;\nFrance, with its casualties of 4,000,000 out of a population (including its colonies) of\n90,000,000, is really the martyr nation of the world. Her gallant poilus showed the world\nhow cheerfully men may die in defense of home and liberty. Huge Russia, including\nhapless Poland, had a casualty list of 7,000,000 out of its entire population of\n180,000,000. The United States out of a population of 110,000,000 had a casualty list of\n236,117 for nineteen months of war; of these 53,169 were killed or died of disease;\n179,625 were wounded; and 3,323 prisoners or missing."