Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-09-13
For the Herald.
FACTS FOR FORTY MILLIONS.

Mr.. EDIToR:+Can you make room, in some
corner of your paper. for few facts which
have collected with some labor. and which,
think, seriously concern the working people
of the Anglo.Saxon race1
The national debts Of sixteen Of the Euro
pean Governments, at the closest estimate that
can be made, amount, in our currency, to
SIC, 305, 900, 900; all incurred for the expenses
of war. This sum embraces merely the ar
rearage, not what has been paid, for carrying
on war. The average of this amounts 500, 25
head to the whole population of those six
teen nations. The interest of this vast sum
nearly equals tax of One Dollar on every in.
habitsnt of the globe.
Since the Reformation - Grea, Britain
has been engaged 65 years, in the prosecution
Of seven wars; for Which she expended, in
our currency, 1881, 100. 900. 1. has been
estimated by our Missionaries that school of
fifty heather children. on the contInen, of India,
would only cos, $3.50 per annum. Then this
sum expended by Christian nation in sixty.
five years in carrying on war with other Chris
,ian nations, if applied to the education Of the
heather. would have schooled 46, 062, I54 chill
dren per annum for sixty. five years! Allow
ing five years TO each scholar. then 500 sos. 900
children might have been educated for the mo.
ney that Great Britain drained from the sources
and channels of her wealth and industry. to
waste in wars, every one of which degraded
her people in every quality of their condi.
ton.
From 1898 10 lSl5-a period % years
Great Britain, France and Austria expended
81, $50, 600, 900 in war. The interest Of this
sum. at six per cent, would have supported
10000 missionaries among the heather during
the whole period Of % years, in which these
Christian nations were engaged in doing the
DEVILS work on each other. The aggregate
amour, would have given five years schooling
to 4sS.666,666 pagan children. on the Lancas-
terrain plan. The interest for one month, at the
above rate, would build 1866 miles of railroad
at SOS. 200 per mile.
Consulting the best authorities can CON-
mand. find that the aggregate amount Of the
expenditures Of our own Government. from 1889
to March 4. 1sls, is 1l1.376.734.
Now-pa,riosic Americans will you no,
read this refec,ingly !-of this vas. sum there
have been expended only Si4s.62o. o55 for eivii
purposes. embracing the Civil List, Foreign
Intercourse, and the Miscellaneous expenses
Then il follows that 5000, 1855. $50 have been
lavished upon preparations for war in time of
peace. within q little more than half a century,
by this model Republic :, Another fact -
From Jan. l, 1886, to March 3, lsi3. the war
expenses Of this Government, were Sl5S. 954,-
ssI !!-frs millions more than all the eiril er-
penses Of the Government from 1889 10 ls43 Z!
Another fact; From 1916 to ls43, eighteen
years, our national expenses amounted to
Si63. 9i5.756 and of this sum, nearly $780,
o0o. 900 went in one way and another for war.
and only S64, 100000 Tor all other objects -
being twenty-five millions year for war, and
about three millions and half-sess than enc
sixth of the whole--fer the peaceful operations
of government that plumes itself on its pa.
ci6c policy. Ii We take into account all the
expenses and all the losses Of war TO this
country, is will be found 10 have wasted for US,
in sixty years, some .,co or three thousand nail
h0ns Of Goilar'i L. b.
Worcester. Aug. 9, Is45.