| Show ni t COT COST OP oi our fleet n t now In 10 tho tue Is ie tho the object of or tho the admira admiration tion ot of our winter sister republics It Is Ie not nOl Inept to consider con for n a moment whit h t thin country pays for tor military o nt WI are 1110 a 1 nation of oC mak makers ers em flint and peace lovers loers I Our government costs cotts between five dye and ala Ix hundred million dollars n a 1 year Most people says lIas the tho Adver Aher Advertiser leer tiser scorn to imagine that lint the bulk bulkot of ot this money goes guca for tor running tho the ox ecu departments Congress and und the tho White House lut nut as M a matter of or tact fact these theMo Items are oro not very Important In round numbers tho the navy gets tho the war department gets 1100 00 moro more and aUlI tho the pension system gets getH something les less than For military ml and naval purposes then thon wo we have out ont of or tho the cr spent apont by this hilt nation ii ovary year yel r about for tor war ex ax expense pense in n a II time of oC peace 1 ace Roughly speaking 60 Go pet per cent of ot all the tho money raised d by taxes on tho people goon goes for forwar forwar war purposes I lIvery family on an on overage average II Is III now taxed 20 a n year to keep the tho military In III t III policy going Yet STet et tho tito circulation lion pOI per capita ca Is III not much more moro than 33 And the tho worst Vorst of ot Il It Is IR that tho burden III IB born principally by tho laboring classeS though this thin Ihl IhlI I fact tact Is III hardly understood un by them nut hut tho the consumers of at food too 1 and clothing and andall all ull tho the various necessities or of life bra pay the tho cost of material and labor as well Yell Yella as a the tha th cost of or taxes and transportation trans and those two Items are aro by hy no means Inconsiderable aro are constantly Increasing III In size lI ze and cost coat A raw few years rs ago 33 3 was considered an extravagant amount to put Into one vessel vassal vO ol Since then thon armored cruisers of or the tha Colorado unit und West Went Virginia typo have havo been beon de do developed developed and nud tho thu battleship will cost at nt least The Tho four now battleships asked of or Congress alO alOe am estimated e to cost cSt exclusive of at guns armor and anti equipment |
