| Show t t r There TheN h hiss M lt much talk lately Intel Intel of ot the th Incurred by hy I threat Orent account of or tho lit mili military tary IMY In South Africa For or that rao the tI J Tribune drawn n IL n b tI cn the tho cost cORt of ot that war r and pst t of ot other uth r great rent com coin coms s J nOli that so o J for It Is II com coni In The rh rr great greal al time the th South Houth itt 1 filTH country cost co l one 6 aon OI mullet II fl and tho other othur chile ellIe 2000 million more Inure without paid In itt pensions lonH af nt after ten ter tIme the wa That IH 1 4 tine the moat else HIe war 00 on record The sian war ewt the h lie combatants 2500 OO mil mih million million lion Onti the tho Crimean war cost coat 1700 million dollars d These rhue ll provo prove that Great Orent lint so f tar far r has halt patti paid out loss leas lel titan than one ono tenth of or o Hint tat the Iho war of rebellion cost CORt the Ihl States lt tI B but bullo to tho time million dollars pU paW by lIy Great Gr nt Britain should ho bo added financial loss of the Doers Bum ami atal when whon that Is in done It U will willbe willI be I 1 found tut his war the numerical strength of ot tho the conquered people and anti the tho size of oC the tho armies en enK K ged Is 18 the tie most moat costly COAti affair of ot thin th kind ever Indulged In Tho Time fact Is that wars more anti more inure expensive lve with every em now n Improvement of ot the th engines ct of destruction In time It will seem to make war on ac nc account acCount count of ot o the heavy cost It Il will entail It H now costs over aver SOO 00 to fire 1110 u a single singleshot singleshot shot from tron one of at te largest guns gun and i tim tho equipment of ships and la Is proportionally moru more expensive than titan ever everAn cerAn everAn An Interesting poInt In this connee connection thou tion If It that thit tho the civilized world now owes million dollars for rOt time the war operations operation of the tho past How flow much easier would l bo ho tho the burdens of ot life lite It If this enormous debt were wiped out and the energies of or mankind could be he devoted to tho pursuits of or the works of ut peace No wonder that thaI the heat best men In nil all ages have bean looking forward to toa a time whim of destruction shall be turned Into Implements of o production reason rennon must Home day pre Ire prevail vail and bring about that much de do desirable change chango As At A it Is U the world not only carries tao burden bunIon of put past at conflicts but pays vast stInts Bums merely inertly for tho the purpose of or main maintaining l peace costs the thc people something like lUte every day A of this comes COin out of ot the scanty earnings of working men who have hae a hard struggle for tho the nieces caries of life Uc Coming ConnIng generations when society RodelY Is la constructed on time thc lines hues of equity and Justice will wilt rend read wIth lIh about the tho barbarous conditions of tho ih present world worM and tho tue Ignorance that suffered nations to lu bo be IJ held in subjection tion to the tM Insatiable Mo Moloch Moloch Moloch loch of militarism |
