| Show WHAT WAR HAS COST WAR WAB sometimes becomes a necessary evil there would be no need of it if everybody had a desire to do justly deal fairly and regard common rights but selfishness is the ruling motive among nations as among individual sand this swamps stamps higher motives and leads to the worst of crimes war is an expensive indulgence and few have any idea of its cost in lives and money the following gives some light on this matter as to the past thirty years and is taken from the ban francisco chronicle according to the estimates of french and german statisticians there have perished in the wars of the last thirty years men while there has neon been expended to carry them on no less than the inconceivable sum of of this amount france has paid nearly as the cost of war with Prussia while her loss in men la is placed at 1550 jo 01 these were killed on the field of battle died of sickness accidents or suicide and 2000 in herman german prisons while there died from other causes enough to bring the number u up to the given aig aggregate regate the sly sick and wounded amounted to the lives of many thousands of whom were doubtless shortened by their illness or injuries according to dr roth a german authority the germans lost during the war men killed or rendered invalid and in money this being the excess of expenditure or of material losses over the p paid aid by france by witty way of indemnity dr engel 11 another german statistician gives the following at as the approximate cost of the principal wars of the last thirty years ears 11 crimean war milan italian war of 1859 danish war of 1864 war of the rebellion north south 2300 iQ OOOO austrian war of 1866 russo turkish war south africa wars african war 18 sew servo B bulgarian ul garian 0 0 AR all these wars were mu murderous in the extreme the crimean warp war in which few battles were fought cost lives live only less than were killed or di died d of their wounds north and south during the war of the rebellion the figures it il must be remembered are serman german and might not agree precisely with the american estimates the mexican and chinese expeditions cost and lives there were killed and mortally wounded during the russo turkish war and 4 each in the italian war of 1859 and the war between betwee n prussia and austria in the other wars the loss of life was relatively less which did not make either the men or money easier to part with in the more limited areas where they occurred and ana this lais is out but a part pan 01 m since it does not include the millions expended during the last twenty years in maintaining the vast armaments of the european powers the losses caused by the stoppage of commerce and manufactures and the continual derangement of industries by the abstraction from useful employment of so many millions of persons held for fora a period of military service extending from three to five years |
