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Show ' i e C t 10 U 0. .. S!!e ' " . greet "i WHAT WAlt HAS COST TUE WOllLDr right ; , , . . . " . - " be fn ' Tuehc waa a tlmo'whtm Americans were in ouch . ilie habit of cstiinating IJm tuorinoua coet of bruig , Avar- They did ao for two reasons: ilrst, to parte- . . ahow tho foolish nationa that met in mortal pract: t-ombat to slaughter each other, what, an ex- estcei peaelve pastime they Indulged in; ami, secondly, second-ly, .to Hatter themselves, whose 'empire was peace' &ow the case ia diuercnt. In tho whole countvy there arc not three newspapers No that touch the pecuniary side of war matters, the 01 It is too suggestive. Materials aro in H to certui establish the fact that tho United States, natur whose greatness was founded on peace, Is i)jo8 about to cpmmenoe one of the CQstHest strug- pees gles ever made In the world, Bo it tho task cessni of the J)aily iVa to enlighten people, then, child . , , y iVet us see wliat expense wars have hitherto teresl ineurred: . If we Ttte war preceding tho treaty of Ilyswick? in clown 1C07, coit ia0,000,y00. infer Tho Spanish war of 1739, settled for at Aix- follow Ift-.PhapeUe, cost $270,000,000. encea 'The war oft he Spanish Succession costUH,- Bmile OOQ.OQO. the c , (The treaty of Paris, In 1703, ended a blopdy protf . . trwggle. which cost S560,000,0o0. Hefoj The War of American Independence cost a loi England and this country $0a0,b00,000. tende The war of ten years, which is known as even! "tho French Involution of 1703," coat $230,- havo 000,000, tbec , . The war against, the First Napoleon, which relatl j began in J80a and ended in 1815. coat the ex- cess; i traordinary amount of $5,800,000,000. liuhe .The Crimean war cost $81,000,000.. areu ti; etc;,) cost 15.000,000. " ; 'ThacH p?la8t;Wttrln India cost'rfitlglttml.Si- I, London j . t "' " ; . . .gbfary w 0 list -might W dd,ubtcdf It inclndep Uonddh l only of which definite1 itittistlcs ar(j, on , ho did, v d. The. cost of thd prttcnt war hero rjo " asatatifc :ian catte estimate,',, because tho loss to5 ,detjctifl; nerc,. Industry, khdf trildo, which it .wills pieman. Lvo l' beyond lie, 'reach, ot calculating i. riexcd: ' .-',' " " ' 1 ' f .V'J' cheater,. |