Show o i iWAR WAR PREPARATION AND WAR COSTS The heavy burden of militarism whIch rests on Europe and particular ly Iy Germany Is sot Het forth in the foi lowing from the Denvel News Germany is a staggering price for Its naval and colon in lj aggrandizement Only the won industry and patriot patriotism Ism of Its people enable the to boar bear the burden hurden The consolidated imperial debt has now reached the appalling total or of moro more than one billion of dollars i marks Tho Th for the tho current year ear will wiil exceed lS marks and tho Ii o calmly announces that next year the gap ho bo tween receipts and will ho oveil largel Instead of suggesting economics lie tho kaisers ministers are aro demanding new fiscal measures which will Increase the revenues marks a year It Is ii less than a quartet of a cen I tar tur since the rau Lord began I lug Ing the colonIal game and then I he has persistently indulged hi in the tho I delightful pastime of J his Uncle EddIe out of his hoots Now the German flag floats over 1 miles of n ter rHo with a population of matel Tue German na flax Is second only Ito to Greal and the tho German army is perhaps the tho most fighting force In tho ho world I All I his hii js IS very cry gratifying from the viewpoint of 01 tho th kaiser I bUl how lio about the toilets toilers of the Fath Fatherland erland who lio in the tue last analysis must pa the bills During th the twenty years to I lihOS OS the lie population of the tho empire Increased O 0 per cent anti and the I Ilal Iia lal ia budget Increased pei per cent cont I In the lie German navy cost jj 5 mal marks ks while the tho nova naval I for the current year ear cali for til iii marks maries Twenty years ago the tue colonies wore not nol mentIoned in the budget Now they ther an expenditure of I O marls marks yearly the tue army armr as might be expected hns been heen tile lie lions share shuro of the million wrung Tung front from the tho German Gernian tax taxpayer payer Tent years ears ago aso the tho arm armcost army cost the kaIser 3 marks but this ear eal the military expenditures will reach the ho enormous total of S 3 marks marIes Even Eon thes these impressive as they are rc do not reveal recal the full extent of thc tho drain on the resources of the empire for fOI Germanys sea and mad lond do de f requIre tl service of oC between and whoso whose yearly productive wo would hl not be less than Never In the worlds history has a nation been called l upon to make great greal or ci sacrifices of mon mon and mone money on the altar of o imperialism How JIow lon long can German Germanys s able industrial or organization organization sustain the lie strain |