Show THE CONGRESS jI j I jOne One me of or th lit the objects I of f the I mer mert Iran t at St Rio Itlo d Ill Ic Janeiro U is to secure permanent peace and therefore prosperIty upon tipon the AmerIcan conti continents It 11 should be p to 10 lUh lish such relation 1108 between I en all nil the r reo ti a In this a U as would make wars U out of or the question With thIs thin object accomplished In the New e World we would be In a R Position to 10 h Il l lher her bor for the MinI Mine achieve achievement I merit ment nt In the Old Tile The example would be bemore bemore I more than Ihan nn any erbal argument nu I ment no matter how forcibly and elo clo put forth It rt should not he be to convince an rational being of or the n of or reducing armaments ani adopting new nen in of or settling International dl rute rutes If It there thue were no other consid considerations stations than those thoM of or economy these thes would l lit be e for or the cost ost of wars rs and aid maintaining armIes and ami na nale le I ta III simply staggering daggering The Now New ew Turk k Tribune gives some figure 11 gu In Inlew inless n less lew than ban year that paper claim Great has spent pent nt on warfare U 6 The solution revolution of 1 cost coat War of 01 the h U the Spanish war m 0 the War Var in the American War Var of or llott the Ih War Var of lr the Revolution SI i 06 0 the th War against Inet Napoleon lil MOn Th ThO ThOrIt The rh rIt war lIr rot cot II fr it Britain In iii cash uh cashmere cashmore more mere than looking at al the Ibe general of H wara r he the Tribune my pays i It U is estimated that the Ih of or the nineteenth nth I eo coat t the lb h world What hu this meana ran can be II then hm it U 1 Is b found that Ihal according tn to tie the tb I t the world paid out outi i a It f ond In the Ihl last 1 century for or oar ar Adopting which nude nu the world lM years yearn arll old at the rd end of or IW m the Ibo nall nt spent I nt In the th century tor lor war an amount to nearly IS H ISa 6 a minute nee the IIII creation Our Yew New l York further ghee pIso at The debts debt of nf the chief nations nation of or the th larth aggregate more mor than flee It I l I Is 1 that of or this thU aum sum wati ac a swallowed w t up lip In warfare and 1111 preparations fIut for It II Nearly all the Ibe therum turn rum rf represented ent d by b the of Il Great Britain Prance Franl Fran and anti Germany was wai t frt lIt f tot r Three Thee countries t are spending annually In re l on ott their di tin n nearly arl This Thia sum num U ii I In to tu the Ibl amounts being In expend td iii for the Ih tupp n of cC mIlitary arma alma n The amount appropriated thia ar for thin this purpose b by Great Britain In ill round U is I b II by apr Oer aprIn In y by Kran e by the Ih Stats iilah It Is II dear ilear that any an step that eon can Rn b he taken aln to tn let ksen n If It not lot out entirely I rely abolish h the military burdens nIn of or the nations will Ii result remit In I added pro fr And hap pines 11 to tn the thc III Individual 1 It 1 Is hoped hod that bat the tJI congress at al the Ill Brazilian capi rapt capital tal 11 will materially aid Alot In the achieve of lit the lb objects for which friends friend of peace all over oYer the tb world are laboring |