Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-07-07
The Cost, of War.
From the Phrenological Journal

From the chronological Journal. = CO.
,, Since the first-born son Of earth struck
down his brother in cold blood, the spirit
of war has shown itselfain all its horrors,
sacrificing large proportion of the wealth
and the best blood of every age and people.
We have only to take a cursory view of the
most enlightened nations to see it is still
doing its bloody work on a scale of magni-
[ tude, if possible, surprising all former
periods. Millions of men are under arms
| Nations are at variance with nations, while
] the genius of the world is employed in in
venting and improving agencies Of destruc
ton. - d-as+
Our country was at peace with all nations.
Our ship Of state seemed to be sailing with
a fair breeze and beneath pleasant skies;
but 10 Ia small dark cloud appeared beneath
the Southern horizon, becoming larger,
darker, and more threatening as it APP
preached, and finally bursting in terrible
power oyer our devoted heads, devastating
large sections, causing every family to mourn
the absence of near and dear ones, and hun
dreds of thousands to drop a tear for their
martered father, brothers, sons and hus-
bands ..5, s 5it5stss l,,
p Ha THE FIGURES. a3 s7a 2
It is difficult to convey proper idea
of the immensity Of the sums which re-
present the cost Of war. The figures
seem inadequate.
The war preceding the treaty of Rys-
wick, 1897, cost Sl3O,o0O,OoO 9al--
The Spanish war of 1894, settled for
at Aix-la Chapelle, cost $50, 100000.
The treaty of Spanish succession cost
$31l 100000. -.r. .Yo.z.s-s i;
+ The treaty Of Paris, in 1863, ended
| in bloody struggle, costing $3.50, ,ooo,-
900. ''. ' 4-'
The war for American independence
cost England and cur country $1,000
900, 600. dw sbgo8 s ~ y ~ qso.lin
The Revolution of 1898 cost $780,
LOCO, 900. .e6 sao,asa.
The wars of the first Napoleon, from
1903, to 1876 cost the extraordinary
amoua of S., 100000, 900. V 7sA sdl-
| The Crimean war cost the powers that
took a part in it more than 81, ,00o, O00,-
| 600. g s-,e,slaa9 ma t.t2,asr9
The late war in India cost England
$4,000, o,o00.
With the number Of men now in the
field, the war for the Union costs up
ward of $4,000, 900 per day. saT
MILITARY Us, CIVIL EXPENDITURES.
The disproportion between the cost of
war and civil government is especially ap-
parent in the case of Great Britain
Her expenditures in 1854, for wars past
and prospective, were more than $3.50
O00,000, while all other expenses were
about $4,000. 900. The number of her
agricultural laborers male and female,
old and young, at that time, was some-
what over 100000, the average wages
per person about $lOO a year. Thus all
the men, women, and children who make
Great Britain a garden Of beauty and a
land of wealth, earn about 500, 00O,--
| 900, per anum. What difference be-
tween the cost of producing food for man
band beasts and the expense Of slaughter
71ing them what difference between
I the husbandry of the plow and that of
! the sword In our country the dispre-
portion is far greater but there are
8better days comingg-peace and prosper
lity will soon be ours.
- THE WAR DEBTS OF THE WORLD.
f. The present war debts of all the states
of Christendom from which we have off,
cial returns, amounts to $4,000, ,00O,-
900, ltaoelve billions ofdollars J it takes
more than a passing thought to compre~
hend such an amount, What known
measure of value can We apply to it !?
What shall we put in the opposite scale
TO ascertain its weight-the power with
which it presses upon the civilized world?
The present, paid in capital, Of all
knowing banks amounts to s1,000,o0O,- :
0o0i Thus the war debt exceeds twelve
times the capital of all the banks of the
world. At 5000 a mile it would
construct 600, 900 miles of railway, bel
ting the earth twenty-four times. It
would make a column Of dollars 10000
miles high. It would take half a mil
lion of teams to carry the silver, allow
ing ton to each team, making a line of
tea IS 1900 miles in length
s uch is the condition Of the world re-
suitlng from war. When will the bur-
den be less? When viii the swords be
beaten into plowshares and the spears
into pruning hooks, and the nations learn
war no more a
OUR WAR DEBT,