Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-19
some Facts In our Civilization.


The American Peace Society has an
Eastern and Western office, at Boston, Mas,
and Elgin, Illinois. Amasa Lord is the
Western Secretary. We have received
from him large sheet Of midtum in parvo
on the subject Of the war-pointed para
graphs and short articles, with telling fact
quite tempting to the editorial mind. Mr..
Lord says that it costs $500 every time the
sheet is issued to the whole press Of the Uni
ted States, "most Of which give from my
! mited means for the sake Of doing good
We can assure brother Lord that the mon
ey he gives is conclusive evidence Of homes
" in his professions and earnestness in adj
yocating the cause, since there is no person
al end TO be attained by his sacrifice.
The Peace Society earnestly solicip edit
ors TO write and ministers to preach for the
cause. We need no urging, as we claim 10
be among the primitive apostles in oppos-
ing the barbarian of war. The Society al
10 urges friends to remember the cause in
their wills: bat considering the leJ npess Of
the treasury we fear that in view of death
most persons think more of heaven than of
"peace on earth and good will to man"
Some facts from the circular before uS
are interesting.
DIR. Pcideaux says that Cesar slew i 90,
600 OF his enimies in the fifty battles he
fought, and probably the ambition Of this
single ma3. cost the lives Of 2,O00,0 600 Of hu-
man beings. Save us from Csesarism! An
equal number were probably destroyed By
Alexander and Napoleon--making G,000,-
600 Of men butchercd by these great com
manders.
Edmund Burke estimated the total of hu.
| man slaughter down to his own time at 49,
I O00,000,000 NEARLY thirty-tve times the
present population Of the globe.
Our boastcd civilization has increased
human slau5htoi by mechanical inventions
Just ns it has increased the products of n
bor; so that war has become scientific
bu'ohcry," as NJ. Passy, of Paris, has char.
acterized it.
In only three OF the small Prussian prov
inces there were in October, after the thre,
months war with France, 35, ,753 widows o
soldiers and 1880 soldiers orphans reduc
ed to misery and thrown upon the public
for support A French woman cxclaime,
to reporter Of the war; ooh, sir, it is W,
who made the war; but il is we who are tn
sufferers"
Dr. Draper, after a thorough search Of tn
records, declared that 100000 men wen
killed, wounded and injured for life durin
the American civil war of 1878.
England cxpends eS50000, ,000-S go,
000,0 0,000-more than her national debt ever
thirty years on her military and naval es
Establishments, During the past ten years Q
peace the United States have expende
$3.50 100000 on her army ani navy. Tn
J cost was S73 1856, ,5li in 1874. And vet tn
: new tax bill became a law in face of tn
fact that we would be better off with hal
this expenditure,
But worse than all is the moral and phfs
ical degeneracy occasioned by war. Europ
! keeps 100000 of the most able -bodie,
men under arms. What becomes Of tn
: 100000 of women whom they ought I
; marry and support?
t The soldiers are the pick of the maicu
E line sex. War demands the best; and {
: for those who are not fit Tor soldiers the
are declared just fit for labor, and to be tn
e fathers of the next generation Here III
: physical degeneracy comes in. Darwin an
: Huxley say that the world progresses b
| the survival OF the fittest War reverse
: the process and leaves the least fit TO SUI
vive in posterity. Horace Mann said tn;
Napoleon shortened the stature of Frencl
men two inches by constantly selecting out
+ 100000 of people the tallest men for Il
p, armyl
: AS to the moral results Of the war, II
Duke OF Wellington said that "Men WI
have nice notions Of religion have no bus
ness to be seldiers" Bacon said that al
cept you could bray Christianity in MOI
tar, and mould it into new paste, there
no possibility OF holy war"
And yet DR.. Holland said during o.
civil conflict that whenever cousiderab
portion of the people should ref''se TO star
up and be shot at in defense of the countr
i the doom of the nation is pronounced
: Gin. Star.