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posing that it is equal. in proportion TO
that of the cavalry. it is not less than
: 33, 6S3 600 franks. or Sc, 399,770. Thus
the army of France, exclusive of the gem
da ruerie and veterans, composed OF $685.
SIP men and 81 ,0l0 horses, costs annu-
ally, to pay and support them, more than
$50 100000 in peace. This estimate
does not include the navy of France.
according to the foregoing data. the
standing armies of Great Britain and
France exceed GIG, 900 men. Including
the armies Of all other European States,
the number cannot fall short of 2 900, 900
men, without taking any account of the
naval ornaments and number of marines,
sailors and officers I'm 1880, Baron
Won REDEEM, very able statistician in
Germany, stated that there were at that
time full four millions actually under
arms in Europe. ED. Your commit
tee have seen publication in which il
is estimated, that the annual charge upon
the people of Europe 10 maintain their
military establishment, is not less than
$500. 00Q 600, and to pay the interest on
their national deb!s not less than $780,
100000. in the opinion of the commit
tee these estimates are fully sustained by
the data they have examined. The
thought is appalling, that the laboring
and productive classes of Europe should
be annually taxed to the extent Of $780,
600. 600 to pay interest on war debts,
and to support millions Of men. with
drawn from the arts Of agriculture, COM
merce. and mechanism, i'll idleness du-
ring peace, and to prepare them TO des-
troy each othor in times of war
I'VE will close these investigations
by remarkins, that our own public debt,
nearly all of which is the consequence Of
war, and the expenses of our army and
navy a single year--the army having cost
So, $50, $50, and the navy, including dry
docks and ocean steam nail contracts,
! S7,400, 800. during the fiscal year end
ing in June 1888. according to official re-
portsmouth, build railroad. at $780,
600 per mile, from the Mississippi river
to San Francisco, in California. A sim
gle years interest at six per cent. on the
amount of our national debt, and the
amount expended for military and naval
purposes during the last fiscal year,
would pay salary exceeding $500 to
one hundred school teachers in every
congressional district in the U. States.
We shall only ailude to the system of
pensions, and the burdens entailed on
nations to support pensioners. For the
next fiscal year, to meet these claims,
more than S2,000.0 900. according to the
Secretsry's report, will be wanting. All
this is the consequence of war.
1.-The facts and considerations already
presented are enough TO show what man.
kind have lost by applying their labor
and money in scourging nations with the
calamities of war. Had the labor anG
money, thus thrown away in making pa-
tons miserable, been applied in con-
structing roads and canals and telegraphs,
in supplying towns and cities with pure
water and other improvements, in build
ing churches and schoolhouses, in pro-
curing books and other apparatus. and in
paying teachers to instruct children, in
stead OF paying soldiers to butcher their
fellow men in cold blood without know
ing whom they are killing; if this wasted
labor and money had been used with
view to the physical, intellectual and
moral advancement Of mankind the i'm
agination cannot grasp the incd! culable
blessings which would have been the re-
snlt.
1--WE shall not dwell upon the delete
rious effects Of war upon the moral and
intellectual progress of mankind. To
trace its consequences, and 10 show that
no people can advance, when maddened
and harrassed by the intense excitements
and engagements which occupy them in
a state of war, as they could lii peace,
would be to waste time in proving self
evident position"
What is the remedy?" "Arbitration,"
is the answer given in the Report, and
readily endorsed by the peace men of the
day. But their remedy will not remove
the evil; for nations tina. will Ike prep
| arations for war on a mammoth scale. as
/ they do in these last days, have too much
of the disposition to fight in them to be
restrained from it, by the most wise ar
bitrators. And besides. God has decreed
that they shall fight, or take the cup of
war and drink it to the very dregs. In
stead of beating their instruments of war
INTO implements of husbandry, they are
called upon to do the reverse. to wake up
their mighty men, &c. to come down to
| the valley of slaughter, to receive their
fearful doom. Joel iii. GIG.
What is the rcmedy?" The conner
sion of the world from the principles of
,.,1 IS nj
the pulpit and the press of the Protestant
world; but their precepts and examples
do not agree, for while they proclaim
against war, they are in practice its sup
porters; hence, their professions are hyp-
| ocritical and their hopes vain.
| What is the remedu"' Let the uner-