Show WAR COST PROHIBITORY PC Today thc difficulty we have to deal with la i certainly not that of securing J men Wo have put an army of some 200000 men into the field and nobody supposes that there will be the least difficulty in getting more We have not failed On so far as we have failed at all for want of men The evil has been it ofquite another kind Whether thli would prove to be the case In a very prolonged war Is another thing Perhaps Per-haps not On the other hand though we may perhaps underrate the length of possible great wars It Is hardly likely like-ly l that any of those of the future will last from ten to twenty years The Germans Ger-mans have a proverb that care is taken to prevent the trees from growing into the sky There is always some counterbalance counter-balance created to every Increase oC power The vast size of modern armies and the frightful cost direct and indirect indi-rect of all wars made nations unwilling unwill-ing to begin fighting and then unable togo to-go on as they once could for half n generation Nobody supposes that we should think of contributing more than 200000 men to any European coalition in which we happened to bo engaged r But we can get that number of inch now without conscription Why then should we have recourse to this method of raising an army Army and Navy Illustrated |