Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-18
For tho Wntehmnn and journal.
SCRAPS OF USEFUL INFORMATION.

SCKABS OF USEFUL lNfOhMA lON.
The king Of England took from the pockets of
his subject S4000,O00,000 to replace the Bourbons
on the throne of France. The interest Of this sum,
at per cent. would be S200,000000 annually
which would 90 so far to place Jesus Christ on the
throne of this nenated world, as to support stan
ding army of 100000 missionaries of the Gospel
in pagan lands, and christian lands paganized by
systems of grinding oppression and moral degrade
ton. The interest of the money thus wrenched
from the hard, lean hands of the toillng people of
Great Britain would build 10000 miles of railroad
every year, until the habitabe globe were inter-
sected by the iron highways for the nations. The
amount or principal, if divided among the 2li,000-
900 inhabitants of Europe, would put $3.50 into
the hands of every individual!
The debt of the Netherlands, contracted, as all
national debts are, to meet the expenses of war,
past or prospective, amounts TO S665, 100000. To
liquidae this debt would require tax of three dol
lars and twelve and half cents on every inhabi-
tant of Europe, and rs cents every individual
on the globe. Divided among the population OF
Holland, the share of each inhabitant would be
S266 The wages of laborlng men throughout the
world probably do not average 20 cents a day.
Them at that rate three thousand three hundred and
forty millions Of hard tong sons of labor would
have to work one day in order 10 foot this war-bill
Of little Holland
Let every Englshman read this fact, and look
upon the hungry millions of his countrymen, and
DOuupT, lpBl uuu Speuh DuTlUu Tue year 1000
one of great commercial prosperity, the value Of all
the British and Irish Produce and Manufactures eX-
ported from the United Kingdom, was sos, 437,
$50. The appropriations for the payment of the
interest of the British war-debt and for the support
of the Army, Navy and Ordnance, during the cur
rent year, amount to 1925, 403,500 ~! Think o
that, all who love humanity The expenses
in time of peace, exceeding, by nearly S20C00,000
all that the human and iron machinery ofthat grea
kingdom produce beyond its home consump
ton!!!!
But let us end if we do not begin at home. lie
us assume the average price of cotton at all place
of its expectation in the Union, TO be l-2 cent
per pound The crop for 1915 is estimated at 872,
100000 pounds worth, at the above rate, S65, 400,
OO0 In 1884, the capital invested in the produc
! ton of cotton, was SS00,000,000 and the value O
the whole crop, S654O0,000. at Sireen cents per 1t
1t may then be fair to suppose that 81 O00,000,O0
! have been thus invested in lS45. The interest q
| this sum, at six per cent, amounts to S60OO0,000
which, being deducted from the home value of tn
entire crop. leaves but S5,400000, clear profit
the business itself. Now the appropriation TO III
y. s. Nam for The current gear, tcaS $6,350, 799
/ Let cotton growers ponder on this fact, and o
another Of vital interest to themselves: war,
prepare for which, we are absorbing three fourth
of the revenue of the nation, would annlhilate
least half of their capital now invested in the pre-
duction of cotton for they would find that $500
I 100000 of their money were invested IN Stocl
which would not bring one cent on the dollar,
time of war. ain case of war with England
the function of our glorious little navy and Of tn
glorious great navy of Great Britain, would be
mutual effort to destroy the commerce of both nj
tons, an interest which they own in partnership
mounting to $l000O0,00o, per annum, of whie
RAW COTTON makes an item Of S50,000,O00,
| all that our navy would do for the cotton grove
in such war, would be to destroy a market f
Fifty Millions of Dollars worth of cotton year.
L. B.
Worcester, U. S. A., Nov. 25 1915.