The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-05-01
May /, 1916.
For the Voice of Freedom.
A Word to our Boys about War
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5

Great Britain VIII QeteTmWo viz |h"'"S
ter and condition of mankind, twenty-five
wears from this evening. The world is
looking forward with earnest expectations
and hope 10 The time when the govern
ment shall BIZ on your shoulders. All
the wealth of science and the progress OF
ages; inventions, surprising all that have
yet originated in the mind of man, and
which shall bring az it were, the ends of
the earth together, and make ones life
and thoughts ubiquitous and immoral;rail'
road charots, running "ike the light
ming" through the oentral regions OF Asia
and Africa, now hardly explored; COM
merce with nations and seaports now
scarcely known by name 10 the civilized
world; enterprises of Christian benevo-
lence, of wide.reaching philanthropy, to
which the present are mere dew drops TO
a river; the moral power Of mind, acting
with attributes of omnipotence upon brute
force and barbarous men-all these ee>
men,s of moral might will! be put into
your hands when you shall come 10 be
the men Of The Ang To- Saxon race,
Now, boys of America, would you be
first and foremost among these men 3
Would you sand before the whole race
as the captains of their salvation from sys,
tens Of despotism tina, have crushed them
in the dusl2 Then let the first act Of
your administration be, to abolish an Old
pagan custom tina; had beggared The world
and filled it with ignorance, misery and
vice. | mean the whole war>system, es-
pecially the preparations for war in time
of peace. And let your charity begin at
home. Look into the ledger of the Unit
ed STATES, and see how this war-breeding
system has swallowed up the revenue OF
the country since the Revolution. From
1871 to 1882, The aggregate Of our ex-
pendltures, with less than three years o!
actual warfare was S842 25069l and
S805,O92,844 Of this sum were worse
than thrown away in compliance with that
old heAthenish maxim, "In time Of peace
prepare for War" all swallowed up by
the Army and Navy, which, during that
whole period, did not save life, or add
an inch to the territory, or sent to the
wealth, or the slightest ioia 10 the true hon.
GRAND happiness Of The Union. Just think Of
it for momen;--during period Of about
40 years, all the other expenses Of carry
ing on this Government amounted in the
whole to only 1877, l58,o47, while $685.
092 844 wsre Mro0n into The bottomless
guDot aoar preparations in time Of peace!
Take your states aud see how you could
have disposed of this vast sum Of money,
wrenched from the hands Of poor laboring
people in this and other countries.
The great Erie Cara, extending from
Albany to Buffalo, distance Of 1868 miles,
cost originally s7l48,789. Ii was con-
sdered almost the wooder of The age when
it was opened The whole country held
kind of jubilee at its completion and
cities and towns grew up as in a single
night, where few years before was moth,
ing but an uncultvalec wilderness. Now
how maay Of such public works as this
might have been constructed for the sum
which the United States expended upon
war>preparations in 40 years?
Mr. Whitney, who pelilioned Congress
for permission to build a railroad from
Like Michigan to the Pacific ocean, af-
firmed that the magnificent work would
not cost over S5O000,0Oo. How many
Of such railroads might our Government
nave built, had ii devoted 10 their construc'
siou what it has appropriated to the pro-
spective destruction OF human bengs2
One more problem in connection with
this subject and have done. From 1886
10 l843, the Government expended on The
Naval Establishment $45, 969. 548, nearly
nine millions more than for the whole civ.
il list for forty years Now, boys,wiIl you
not tell those who call themselves men,
how many merchant ships, of 500 tons,
would it take to earn this sum, at $4,000 q
year net profits for each sbip2 E. B.
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