Emery County Progress | 1906-12-15 | Page 5 | Awful Cost of Warfare

AWFUL COST OF WARFARE human lives and treasure expended on the in the so called glorious victories of caesar a million men perished on the field 0 battle napoleon in the short space of nine years was author iced to devote to the glory of france 2 of her sons in the ten years following the attack on fort samter the world destroyed in war 1 lives and six billion dollars worth ol 01 property two thirdy of t ie combined budget of the various states of eu rope are devoted to the maintenance of armed forces and to the service of a debt practically the whole of which was incurred by wars ar expenses in europe absorb one halt of all the wealth created by productive labor in the comparatively insignificant wai of england with the boers england lost 22 men and spent 1 three hundred and fifty thousand men were withdrawn by her from productive industry to engage in the de of war military expends tures in the united states during the lait eight years have absorbed one and a halt billion dollars internal journal of ethics