The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-06

Tor the cause. We need no urging, as
we claim to be among the primitive apos
ties in opposing the barbarism of war
The Society also urges friends to remem
Der the cause in their wills; but consid
| ering the leanness of the treasury we
lear that In view Of death most persons
think more Of peace in heaven than OF
"peace. on earth and good will to men,"
Some facts from the circular before us
are interesting.
DR.. PeideauX says that Cesar slew
l, ,122, 900 of his enemies. in the fifty bat
ties he fought, and probably the ambition
of this single man cost the lives of 2,00O,-
900 of human beings. Save us from
C@sarism! An equal number were prob
ably destroyed by Alexander and Napo-
leon-making 100000 of men butohered
by these great commanders.
Edmund Burke estimated the total of
human slaughter down to his own time
at $4,000, ,OOO,0 ,00C-nearly thirty-tiye times
the present population Of the globe.
Our boasted civilization has increased
human slaughter by mechanical inven-
tions just as it has Increases The pro-
ducts of labor: so that war has become
Scientific butchery," as M. Passy, of
Paris, has characterized 1t.
In only three Of the small Prussian
provinces there were i'll October after the
three months war with France 50, 1853
widows Of soldiers ard 1880 soldiers
orphans reduced to misery and thrown
upon the public for support. A French
woman exclaimed to reporter of the
war: "Oh sir, it is we who made the
war, but it is we who are the sufferers"
DR.. Draper, after thorough search of
the records, declared that 2,5OO,OO0 men
were killed, wounded and injured for
life during the American civil war of
1875.
England expends 9S50,00O, ,000-$$4 25O,-
000, ,000-more than her national debt
every thirty years on her military and
naval establishments. During the past
ten years OF peace the United States
have expended $750,00O,0O0 on her army
and navy. The cost was $73, 1856 ,514 in
1874. And yet the new tax bill became
law in face of the fact that we would
be better off with half this expenditure.
But worse than all is the moral and
physical degeneracy occasioned by war.
Europe keeps 100000 of the most able
bodied men under arms. What becomes
of the 100000 OF women whom they
ought TO marry and support
The soldiers are the pick of the mascu-
line sex. War demands the best; anu
as for those who are not fit for soldiers
they are declared just fit for labor, and
to be the fathers OF the next generation!
Here the physical degeneracy comes in.
Darwin and Huxley say that the world
progresses by the survival of the fittest.
War reverses the process and leaves the
least fit to survive in posterity. Horace
Mann said that Napoleon shortened the
stature of Frenchmen two inches by con-
stantly selecting out of So,0O0,090 of
people the tallest men for the army!
AS to the moral results of the war, the
Duke of Wellington said that "Mcn who
have nice notions Of religion have no
business to be so!diers.' Bacon said
that except you could bray Christiani-
ty in Il mortar, and mould it into new
paste, there is no possibility of holy
war;"
And yet, DR.. Holland said during our
civil conflict, that whenever a consider
able portion of the people should refuse
to stand up ana be shot at in defense of
the country, the doom Of the nation is
pronounced.