Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-06-11
VOL. Is NO. So
The Cost of War.


that the yearly cost of putting and sun.
porting Thousand soldiers in the fie Id. il
about one million Of dollars, or a thousand
dollars man. This includes, of course, the
whole expense, pay, arms. clothing, ratlons,
DC. The annual expense Of the regular
U. 5. Army of $4,000 men. is about $l5,.
000. 600.
To put LOG, 900 men in the field, there
fore, aud keep them there during one year,
will cost one hundred million Of dollars.
Double the number and double the EXPENSE;
treoble the one and you trebble the other.
Ihere are therefore two great points to
be considered in war-how many troon,
can You get and how many can you paw.
arm and maintain.
Thus money becomes "the sinews Of
war" As the old European pruverb saws
with fling at our brother Republicans
IN the Cantons-" no money. no Swise -
But the maxim is tolerabIy true of all
countries and all peoples. No money no
soldiers.
One soldier in fifty inhabitants is said 10
be the largest number that can easily be
maintained, even ny such nation as
Great Britain. One soldier in forty was
the average in the great war with Napoleon.
when England had 100000 men in arms.
France had only sc.
The free States, exclusive of Oregon and
California-which will hardly be called
upon for that quota-have over 10 OOO. 600
white inhabitants. We suppose, therefore.
they could maintain in the field about
$4,000. Great Britain raised, by loan
and taxation, during one year, in her war
with Napoleon, one thousand millions of
dollars! Probably the north, at a pinch.
could 90 as much.
We see now the reason that Russia gayo
over, for the time, her attempt upon Tur-
key, after the experience of the Criuea-
she could not stand the tremendous ex.
pense Of such vast numbers of troops.-
People talk lightly Of putting 300 900
men in the field, but when they begin 10
think that the cost Of such a number will
be about $500 ,000, 600 IA year, they will
see that 1t is great dram upon the re-
sources OF any country, and that q wise
ruler may often hesitate q little when he
perceives where the money, arms, &c, are
to come from. The tug Of war" is often
the tug upon the pocket
And these calculations show the value of
efficiency in the army. An army Of is, 900
men well drilled, will equipped, we'll CON-
manced-and who have seen service at
each others side-is worth an army of
10000, composed of raw, undiscipIined
troops. Yet poor soldiers cost about as
much as good ones.
Home Conversation.
Children hunger perpetually for new ideas
and the most pleasan: way Of reception is
by the voice and the ear, not the eye and
the printed page. The one mode is nat
ural, the other artificial. Who would not
rather listen than read We not uufre-
quensly pass by in the papers full report
OF lecture, and then 90 and nav our
money to hear tie self same words uttered.
An audience will listen closely from the
beginning to the end Of an address which
not one in twenty Of those present would
read with the same attention. This is
emphaticaliy true Of children. They will
learn with pleasure from the lips Of parents
what they deem it drudgery to study in
the books ; and even If they have the mis-
fortune to be deprived Of, the educational
advantages which they desire, they cannot
fail to grow up intelligent if they enjoy in
childhood and youth the privilege of liste-
ming daily to the conversation ofinteIligent
?eOpe. Let parents, then, talk well at
home. A father who is habitually silent
in his own house may be, in many
respects, wise man but he is not wise in
his silence. We sometimes see parents
who are the life Of every company which
they enter, dull. silent, uninteresting at
home among their children. If they have
not mental activity and mental stores suffi.
cient for both let them FIRST provide for
their own household. Ireland exports BEEF
and wheat, and lives on potatoes; and
they fare as poorly who reserve theirisoeial
charms for companions abroad and keep
their deiaines for bCme cousumT tim. 1t IS
better to instruct children and make them
happy at home, than it is to charm stran-
gers or amuse friends. A silent house il
a dull place for young people, place from
which they will escape if they can. They
will talk or think Of being "shut UNI
there; and the youth who does not love
home is in danger. Make hume, then, a
cheerful spot. Light it u2 with cheerful
instructive conversation. Father, mother,
talk your best at home.