The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-05-20

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|oI3i mn u. o:si..sei caIssuss,..,I Z { l.
"Was," nys 0tr Thooas .Dick, has sac.
i1csd, since Tie creation, Il, oo0,0 o0, 600 IT
people," In othcr words, enough . people
fourteen worlds like this Of oaJA Burke
gives the number of deaths 0ccasioned BY
w@ at q, 900 0o0, 900. Il ID estimated that In
the cities burned, property destroyed, money
spent, and other financial losses, has cost
6fty times the present property Of the
world. t. Ia-gr.=.ar
The VA debts Of Europe are now about
Ga, O0O, O00, 900, or atOut twice the amount
Of gold and silver in circulation in the
world. ..,a." -....n....a.....
The military expense Of the war system In
christeudosn, for 1850, was shout q, 600, !.
000,O OF this inconeeivably large num-
Der We can have NO adequate idea What
il its power for good! The multiplication
table will assist 10 in forming conception.
Let 10 calculate Geographers now give
the population Of the earth st /, 90, 0o0, Ooo;
out the Bible Now, with the annual mill.
itary expense Of Chsistendom, we could
send then o00, 000, 900 Bibles It 1fty cents
| each, printed In fifty different laQEuagcs
We could send with the Bibles . million
teachers at q salary Of thousand dollars
each per year; build .. million school
houses for each tcacher-at I'VE hun.
dred dollars each; and, after I'll this, We
have enough left 70 purchase all the print
ing presses In America Ut the present mar
ket value. All this could be done, take
notice with one years military expense in
Then Il we could persu,de the rulers of
Christendom 70 turn their military expendi-
much light might be carried to the dark
corners Of the earth, and the heather sfar
off taught the pssceabls religion Of Jesus
Christ. Doubtless, ct the end Of the decade,
armies would no longer be counted . neces.
sity. The annual military expense referred
to above 10 above IL about three hundred
times - much . the aggregate expenditures
OF ell the missionaries, benevolent, Dlblo
and tract societies Of the sans nationA II
The cost Of The la3s Wa, - given BY 6sc-
rst:sZ Mslls, down y W PRESENT timA. is
the market value Of al the slaves that were
in the South In 1850. ,s.-s -.--~.,,..- .
:wes: hs - Dove. that all: Tie wesn with terror,
Given 70 redeem The h.aan nina from eros,
There would be no need II aEsssals md forts" r
But our government, peacesbly - It has
lived, paid eighty per cent Of oil that II has
expended - nation, for military purposes.
Even in times of peace the ratio runs from
seventy to eighty per cent From l706 to
1865, the average, according to Collier, WAS
80 per cent In 1858 the ratio was shout 65
per cent, and in 1850 It was more than rs
per cent. >s''5 - 80 ~"
The whole expense Of the United States
government for the year ending June 80,
1899, was @3sl, ~, 6oz. OF this. more than
two hundred and fifty millions tho Secretary
brings under the head Of military expenses;
And yet the history Of armies seems clearly
n teach 10 that they are net only tester
Ing sore Of moral corruption upon . nation,
but that they create more warn than they
prevent g.. ..ti43
= What general improvements the country
might make with this money! We find Il
sul1cicnt 70 build railroad from rttsburg
to the Pacific ocean, with the necessary ma
chinery for operation. We could also build
in the west ten collegcsand ten State houses,
at @500,O 900 each; build thousand common
school-houses g q 900; build : thousand
churches u t26, 900 each. And we have =
sum left the interest of which will al the
school heusss with tsachers, and salary the
Der OF men In the army and navy ID, doubt
leas, sufficient % build the rsiljoaa md COL
leges, ETC., in one year. Thus IN army Of
b1ilden would be much more valuable .
nation than IN army Of Destroyer. oumner
said in his psllniesl days: ''SiaDding armies
only draw the lightning OF battle to our
homcs" When great man was once asked
Il he would have guard 70 protect hum In
certain case Of danger, b replied: 'eend
. Sabbath School teacher" Docs not every
thinking man know that those who carry
arms are the men Who engage IL private
fights. Much moro = this tfsde Of nations,
best prepared for war oftenest engage In
How long, then, shall intelligent people
continue TO pay . hundred millions per year
for any army In the United States, or one
hundred and thirty millions IN England, OF
one hundred and sixty millions In France,
or two hundred milIjoos IN .Ruasjel, How
long among Christians shaA this conainoel
The answer 10 q hand We give Il IN sen.
tence-untl pulpit and pres, aud platform
lift up their voice against Il How can you
get darkness out of . roomi BY bringing
In . light. Equally simple & the problem
ofpeace and war. Let the minister Of Christ
teach that He Is the Prince OF Pcsee; the
n tie heavens, poun fsrtI'a iood Of light
on the system of war; let tho platform
teach that peace u right, reasonable, pro
htable end practicable. And then, n s4Ee.
The sword and spear o( needless worth
Shall pgaoo The tree and .poeW ~ eagsh.S a.i !
More Aboaet Enlltr De0a,
When Noah disembarked 1t AraEat he
had scarcely touched the pier Whea he pro-
cecded to tally his passenger He had just
checked his last item In the list = M. and
Mira b bug when the csinginH figure Of
sp1nk WitA birtA0 betWeea hio k4op hD0at
me II there amt that yaller dogr' says 1r.