Arizona silver belt., 1886-11-27
The Armies Of EnkOpe.

lfrom the N. I. Commercial AdVerIlser Satan himself, admitting him to be the incarhate fend that he is repre-
 Sehted, could hardly contemplate the fearful results Of a European war in
 which tlg great Powers should partic-
 ipate, as is at present threatened,
 swithout- 6eing appalled,. With the
 tremendous armies that would be put
 in the field, and the new and terrible
 engines of destruction that have re-
 gently been invented, the loss of hu-
 man life and the aeeentuatiof ofhuman
 suffering would be irressurably
 greater than in any of tie contests ] that history records No FepdeT lSat \ - l3zaf10n Tecois from f6eawfill fam
 cy, and that the rulers of l5roud na-
 tions hesitate before rusy fag into a
 conflict that must inevitably endow a
 continent with a weight of misery that
 can not be overestimated.
 Europe has been described as break
 ing down under her weight 6f armof,
 and when we consider that the expen-
 allure of the six leading States last
 year, upon their armies alone, was
 more than $5OO,OOOOOO, and that the
 navles under the same flags were an
 additional expense of over $1OO,OOO,- 900, we can begin to realize what the necessity of preparing for war, as
 meafS of preserving peace, means to the jealous Powers of the old world
 In point of numerical strength Rus sia, the "collossus of the North" whose Czar believes in the destiny of his em- pire, and is said to have sworn to ex- tend it's territory to the seas on four sides, takes the lead, Of population estimated to be about 1OO,OOO,O0O, 2,900,000 of the flower of her manhood are ready to be placed in the field in case If war, while 8OO,OOO are contin- ually under arms in time of peace. Frances who promises to be the ally of the great Muscovlte power, can call 1,59O,00 men into line in case of war, and on peace footing she maintains an army of 514,0OO men. Germany, whose army is the finest in the world in polnt of organlzation; can put into the field 1;5OOjOOO of the best drilled soldiers that ever marched to battle, and, even in peaceful times, 514,0OO men are continually under arms. En- glands army is small in comparison with that of other less influential pow CTS. The regular army of great Brit ain is but little over 100000, but in case of war she can instantly put 67O,- 600 men under arms, and there are no better fighters than the English sol- diers, as almost every civilization knows to its cost.
 Austro-Hungary can bring against Russia and her allies 1.077OO0 men, while on peace footing the empire maiiitains 286,OOO men under arms. But the Austrian army is in a state of | Reorganization, and all general or ders, it IS said, have to be translated | into SIX languages, and these into six teen dialects in order to reach the various nationalitIes of the different | provinces from which the recruits are taken. Italy, though not a frst=fate power, has a greater army than any European State except Russla. She would undoubtedly side with the anti Russian States, and would array 1, ,99O,- 900 men under her banners. Greece and Turkey would probable be array ed against each other on one side or the other, and between them they would bring 50O,0Oe more men into battle.
 Thus Europe may summon more than 10,0O0000 men, more than one. sixth of the population of the entire United States, to slaughter and be slaughtered. These men, too, are all in the prime of manhood, the bone and sinew of their respective countries, 30 that the deaths of the hundreds of thousands who must inevitably fall means more even than the sentimental loss to wives, mothers and children. It is a great question what these ten millions of men might accomplish if war was a relic of the past, and they night turn their attention to produc- i've labor, but it is, unfortunately, a question that we can scarcely hope will be solved without delays and 
 Since Robert T. Lincoln left the of ica of Saorafarv of Wor o+ tba oloen |