Show can the world afford peace any other ihan than an affirmative answer to this question would appear at the first glance absurd the cost of war var has burdened the civilized world with debts no one expects ever to be paid the interest on these debts ab sori on an average about one third of ot the revenues of the government on a peace footing one third of the working vi force of a nation Is kept in unprofitable idleness and two thirds are taxed for their support and yet the question Is pertinent can the world afford peace it if the world cannot afford peace why are the ani ant masities mosi ties among nations so strong that the masses of the people would not forego the idea of preparing one third of their number nu aber to meet a third of the nation they most hate in battle this question must certainly be answered in the negative there Is hardly such a sentiment as personal among the tile peoples of war ring nations when soldiers meet they form personal friend friendships pa in a almost utter disregard of national prejudices in our civil war the soldiers on ion both sides held when opportunity offered the most friendly re relations lations with each other the statesmen of a y nation those th ose who make war or peace 1 certainly do not regard each other as cis enemies it russia and germany should go to war the emperor nicholas and the emperor william would continue their friendly rela re lations tlona what then Is the reason that the world cannot afford peace the most nearly insurmountable barrier in the way of peace I 1 is a economic in character peace would destroy industries dus tries deprive workingmen of their occupation and capital of profitable employment the construction of warships and the manufacture 0 of t implements 0 of war are immense industries what value would woul d be attached to the properties of the steel combine capitalized at if it the word were forth that there are n no 0 more to go warships to be built war makes no end of work and opens up many for profit in the ultimate war sources la is waste but in the t he meantime it keeps EC money in cir circulation culat ton chairman of the tile house committee F the computed I 1 the appropriations on with cost of the tile three months war the nation borrowed spain at it used bad on hand and put an el extra tra tax on make up the tile deficiency the people to immell immediate the national prosperity city was throwing result of the war of t trade into the channels 0 of industry all branches boom in caused a about men were drawn from the ranks 0 of f labor and placed on oll being list from salary the nations san they became bonsu consumers mers producers francisco and other cities prospered the expenditure thus created through A good many c of A our people want because to continue this role of ot expenditure there is money in oney in it it makes times good so aro are times good g for the mortgages his ills bo home me and man who the proceeds proceed a the lives for a it time on life and a larger longer a lias has nation individual but it Is credit than the laws to same economic subject of in a period briod it the nation indulges in folly ita its intoxication it must pay for when it gets sober mcanal meantime Me antimo me business bus la Is appalled at the immediate consequence of the paralysis in irl industries which would follow disarmament |