Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-05-05


the budgets for the years 03o and 1852
in support of the truth of the statements
exhibits the condition of things on this
point in regard to the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. The pub
LEGATION states: "While its Omitted King
dom) national debt has not been materi-
ally diminished, its war establishment has
been fearfully increased. In the space
of seventeen years-namely, from 1888
to l652-its armed men have multiplied
from 145 SIC in the one period. to 272.
ISl in the other, being an addition, in
those comparatively few years. Of no
less than l26, 635 men in arms" The
publ: proceeds to state. that an
( additional force of O.OO0 men had re-
Gently been provided for lin the form
Of a militia, at cost of $3.50, 900 ISL
+ $50 .O0O) to the country; and more re-
Gently Still, they (the ministry have de-
manded and obtained. for an increased
navy. another sum of 100000, (53,-
600 000.) making together nearly one
million sterling taken from the income
of the empire in 1892, in addition TO the
/
poses" The same publication states,
that in 1885 the whole cos, of the army.
navy and ordnance of Great Britain was
81 ,G57 ,407 sterling, (356, 207 ,435,) in
1882. the charge for the same depart
ment (including the Caifre war. &c has
risen to the startling sum of fl6. $780,
coo, 1882, 500, 900. being an increase of
4 q , 4 -
does not include the f600, 600 recently
added to the navy" We shall conclude
these extracts by giving the commentary
Of the writer OH the preceding facts. He
says: 1.-The in jury which this immease
drain on our national resources must in
nict upon commerce. is incalcula ble.-
Take Manchester and Stafford as an in
stance; their united population of about
400. 600 inhabitants, according to the ex-
listing average OF taxation, pay annually,
for past. present and future wars, no less
than the astonishing sum of GS75, goo,
(54 .375. 900. or $40 per headD and at
this rate such population. during the
last thirty years of peace. will have lost
| from their United resources, for war pur-
poses alone, the almost overwhelming
sum OF not less than tlcenty fee millions
sterling! What the inhabitants OF these
two great boroughs could have accom-
i pii@hed with this vast amount, denes all
desert ption; but it is undeniable that SOL
| id Improvements, and on a scale of the
most commanding magnitude, in all the
social, sanitary and intellectual depart
ments of activity. might have been car
ried out to their full completion by those
resources which. through system Of war
like extravaganza, are now forever lost.
| The inhs bitants of the United Kingdom
al large will have contributed to this ex i.
travagant outlay. during the thirty years
of peace, the perfectly bcwildering amount
/ of more than one thousand twO hundred
and fifty millions! CSC. $50, OO0,OOO)
Nor does the agricultural market suf-
fer less, in proportion. than the manufac
turing. of which the following statement
is convincing and melancholy proof
Its 600, 900 laborers, who, with their
families, amount to nearly two millions
and half Of the entire population, will
not receive as wages, for their whole
years toll, more than fifteen millions
sterling (575, 900, 000O while. for armed
men alone, the country will pay, as sta
ted above, upwards of sixteen millions,
$4,000. 900, for the same space of time.
Thus the tillers Of the soil. whose hard
and honest la Dor provides the substance
of our daily bread, will receive for that
la Dor millions less than men in arms, who
Of necessity, must be mere idlers in the
State. except when engaged in the work
Of mutual destruction
''It might seem useless further TO pur-
sue these investigations in reference to
the States of Europe. But it is deemed
proper to make brief reference to the
state of things now, or very recently, ex-
listing in France, taken from translation
of an article published in the Steele
From this ii appears that in France and
Algeria there are kept up 'lO2 regiments
of infantry, ten batlaions of foot chaS-
seurs, three reg iments of zouaves, three
battaions of African light infantry. and
nineteen companies of disci pine. These
corps contain 26l ,095 officers, non-com-
missioned officers. and soldiers. at an ex-
pense of pay and living alone of rs. 000,-
600 franks" equal to Sl4, 2S0,000. The
article proceeds TO say: .'Our fifty-eight
regiments of cavalry, two squadrons of
guides. and four companies of the body
called CaDdlicrs dc Rcmontc. contain
81 > S7 men and Al, 707 horses at an ex-
pense of 81. 100000 francs, equal to $l0,-
$4,000 The artillery-which is divi-
ded into fourteen regiments. a regiment
of pontoneers, four squadrons of park ar
tillery, and thirteen companies of work
men-consists of 30. 900 men and 74S
horses, and the wagon train of 5000 men
and .42o horses. The gendarmerie and
veterans form chapter of the budget
quite apart.
s.The number Of the gendarmerie and