The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-12-05
HUMAN CARNAGE.
slsughtrt Of 100000 Lives In Wars oe
the Last Thirty Years.


slaught~t Of a,e5O,OOO Lives In Wars o.
the Last Thirty Years.
In time of peace tho statisticians count
the coss of war in men and money
which does not seem, however, to have
any effect whatsoever in the way of pre-.
venti0n. The fact is neither govern.
ments nor peoples want war in the alb.
stract though there always exist latent
jealousies and hatreds and the desire for
advantages which war alone brings that
render it possible at any moment. You
cannot make governments count their
dead beforehand, though it is easy
enough to count them afterwards; while
as for the prospective debt, u nation as
sumes it in advance ~ coolly as farmer
places u mortgage on Lis farm.
according to the estimates of French
and German statisticians there have per-
ished il the wars Of the last thirty years
100000 men, while there has been ex-
pended to carry them on no less than
the inconceivablo sum of $13,GO0,0OO,-
O0O:' OF this amount france has paid
nearly 5cJ,0C0,CC0 IS the cost of the
war with Prussia, whi-o her loss in men
is placed at 10000. OF these $4,000
we've killed ON the field of battle. SO. Zoo
died OF hic.1ress, accidents or suicide and
10000 in German prisons. while there
died from other causes enough to bring
the number up to tho given aggregate.
The sick and wounded amounted to
47z.42l, the lives Of many thousands of
whom were doubtless shortened by their
illness or injuries.
--a according to DR.. Roth, a German
aasleiity. the Germans lost during the
war 60. Coo men killed rrendered invalid
and $6C0,C00,000 in .oney, this being
the excess of expenditure or of material
losses over the 81 $50 900, 900 paid by
France by way of indemnity.
Dr.. Engel, another distinguished Ger
man statistician, gives the following as
the approximate cost of the principal
wars of the last thirty years: Crimean
war, 81, ZOO. 100000: Italian war of 1859,
$500 O00,0 900; Prusso-Danish war of 1884,
$4,000. 900: war of the rebellion, north |
s., 100, 100000, south $2,30O,00 900;
Prusso-Austro war of 1866, $3.50, ZOO, 900;
Russo-Turkish war, 1925, 100000 South
1AAlNdH WdAo, 20, 1V,OOOs <1lSudu War,
$13,250,000: Servo-B Bulgarian war. $780,
100000.
All these wars were murderous in the
extreme. The Crimean war, in which
few battles were fought, cost 100000
lives, only $4,000 less than were killed
or died of their wounds, north and
south, during the war of the rebellion.
The figures, it must he remembered, are
German, and might not agree precisely
with American estimates. The Mexican
andCbinese expeditions cost $500, 900 900
and 5000 lives.
ESre were 100000 killed and mortally
w9Ylled during the Russo Turkish war,
and 1880 each III the Italian war of
1859 and Ne war between Prussia and
Austria. 1.-THE other wars the loss of
life was rela.-ely less, which did not
MAKE ei.lei ono IN or money easier to
part with IN nemore limited areas
NJ y teas s. aliaie
And this is but d part of the account
ing. since it does not include the mill
ionS expended during the last twenty
years in main tanning the vast ornaments
of the European powers, the losses caused
by the stoppage of commerce and manu-
features, and the continual arrangement
of industries by the abstraction from
useful employment of SO many millions
Of persons held for a period of military
service extending from three to five
yea1s.-San Francisco Chronicle. :