The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-09-04
Facts for Forty millions.


Mr. EDITOR: Can you make room
in some corner of your paper, for a few
flcts which | have collected with some la
Dor, aud which, 1 think, seriously con-
Germ the working people Of the Anglo
Saxon race2
The national debts Of sixteen ofthe Eu-
ropean Governments, at the closest esti-
mates that can be made. amount. ia our
currency, to $40, 1905. 100000 all incur
red for the expenses Of war. This sum
embraces merely the Gr7eardge, not what
has been paid, for carrying on war. The
average of this amount is S63 % head
10 the whole population of those IS ma
lions. The interest of this vast sum near
Y equals tax of One Dollar on every
inhabilant OF the globe.
Since the Reformation IN Great Brit
ain has been engaged 65 years, in the pro.
secuion Of seven wars for which she ex-
pended, in our currency, $8,982,l20,00O.
1t has been estimated by our Missionaries
hat school of SO heather children, on
he continent OF India, would on y cost
$3.50 per annum. Then this SUN ex>
pended by a christian nation in 65 years
in carrying on war with other christian
nations, if applied TO the education of the
heather, would have schooed 46,062, l54
children per amman for IS years Allow.
ing S years TO each scholar, then $685.
,808,000 children mi ght have been educat.
ed for The money that Great Britain drain.
ed from the sources and channels of her
wealth and industry, TO waste 10 wars ev.
cry one of which degraded her people in
every quality of their condition.
From 1903 to I8l5,--a period OF ~
years-Gr Britain. France aud Aus
tria expended 37330,O00,000 in war.
The interest oflh sum, at 6 per cent,
would have supported 3d. 900 missionaries
among the heather during the whole Pc
rod Of % years, in which these christian
nations we've engaged in doing the DEVILS
work on each other. The aggregate a,
mount would have given 5 years school
ing 10 488, 666,6G6 pagan children, on the
Lancasterian plan. The interest for one
month, at the above rate. would build l466
miles of railroad at S25, 900 per mile.
Consulting the best authorities / can
command, | find that the aggregate "a
mount Of the expenditures of our own Co
vernment, from 1889 to March 4, l843,
is 81, lll,975,734. ...
Now--patriotic Americans will you
not read this refectingly 2-of this vast
sum there have been expended only $l48,-
|620,055 for cioI purposes, embracing the
Civil List, Foreign Intercourse, and the
Miscellaneous expenses. Then il follows
that $962,755 $50 have been avished up,
on preparations for war in time OF -peace
within a little more than half a tcen!ury,
by this model Republic ~ Another
fact: From Jan. /, 1886, TO March 8,
l843, the war expenses of. this Govern
ment were Sl53,954, 1881 !-JGve millions
more than all The ciril expenses Of the Go
vernment from 1889, 10 l843 !!--Anoth'
er fact: From 1916 to 1884, eighteen
years, our national expenses amounted to
S463,9l5756 and OF this sum, nearly
$500, 100000 went in one way and
another for war, and only S64,000.-
900 for all other objects being twen>
ty two millions a year for war, and about
three millions and halt-less than one
sixth of the whole-for the peaceful oper-
atoms Of a government that pumes itself
on lis pacific policy! If we take into ac-
count all The expenses and all the losses Of
war to This country, it will be found to
have wasted for US, in sixty years, some
tpo or three thousand millions of dollars!
Worcester, Aug. 9, Is45. E. B.
WORKING For LIVING. The fol-
lowing excellent article in the "Ohering."
edited by the Factory Girls of Lowell,
bresthes the right spirit
"Whence originated the idea that it was
deroga,ory to ady's dignity, or blot
upon female character 10 labor and who
was the first 10 say sneeringly, ooh, sh e
works for living e Surel y such ideas
and expressions ought not to grow on re.
publican soil The time has been when