Show ENORMOUS COST OF WARFARE fighting has saddled the nation of the world with debt two or three centuries ago it was discovered that money tor warfare could be secured more easily and in larger quantities by bonding the na alon tor it and taxing the people ta pay the interest wars began to cost more in less than years great britain has spent on warfare 6 the revolution ot 1688 cost the war of he spanish succession the spanish war the seven years war the american war ot revolution the war ot the french revolution the war against napoleon 2 the boer war cost great britain in cash more than Is estimated that the wars ot the nineteenth century cost the world 17 A statistician has figured that there are 3 67 seconds in a century according to these figures the world paid out nearly 6 a second in the last century for war adopting archbishop usher s chronology which made the world 5 years old at the end 0 1899 the nation spent in the nineteenth century tor war an amount equal to nearly 6 a minute since the creation this statistician has esti mated that the world s population 1 it this Is correct the amount spent in war between 1801 and 1900 would furnish each roan womac and child with nearly 12 bocka money the debts of the chief nations of the earth aggregate more than 34 it Is believed that three fourths of this sum was swallowed up in war tare and preparations for it nearly all the sum represented by the debba of great britain france and germany was spent for warfare these coun tries are spending annually in interest on their debts nearly this sum Is in addition to the amounts being expended or the support of mil gitary armaments the amount appropriated this year for this purpose by great britain in round figures la by germany by france by the united states new york trib une |