Show The Army and Navy Journal gives 1 I some figures which we suspect will cause our Democratic friends id insist that the railroad traffic In this country should cease It is too dangerous ItS It-S that we havo In round numbers I in the Philippines 03000 troops I the i I casualties among thorn had been In I I Ilka proportion to those among the I I railroad rnlroad employees as reported by the I Interstate commission It would give IOG killed and 6727 I cIe wounded or a total I of 6133 The actual total for the year I based on the average number for I twentythree months is 1G10 From this calculation It appears that the rIsk to life and limb among tralnsmen rlnsmen on railroads rail-roads in the United States is nearly four times as great ns among the sol dlers in the Philippines Elaborating further It ways Tho total killed and I wounded In the British army In South Africa up to July 1st was In round figures fig-ures 15000 The casualties among railroad rail-road employees for tho year were two and onehalf times a many The casualties ualties on railroads In the United States exceeded the total number of persons killed and wounded In the Philippines and South Africa including includ-ing Americans Filipinos British and Boers The figures of the killed and wounded Filipinos are 12SS1 I and 11000 In South Africa a total of 30501 i while on United States railroads there were 51743 killed and wounded which leaves a margin of 21239 to cover the Boer I killed and wounded I seems to be a clear case that railroading Is very much more dangerous than war i |