, 1890-12-21
HUMAN CARNAGE.
slAushtsr Of las o Lives liz Wars Of
ne Last Thirty Years.


ne Last Thirty Years.
In time of peace the statisticians count
the cost Of war in men and money.
which does not seem, however. TO nave
any effect whatsoever in the way Of pre-
vention. The fact is neither govern
ment q peoples want wal 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. Nou
cannot make governments count their
dead beforehand, though it is easy
enough to count them ~afterward; while
As Cor the prospective debt, a nation as
sdmes it in advance rs coolly as a farmer
places a mortgage on his farm.
According TO b estimates Of French
and German statisticians there have per
ished in the wars Of the last thirty years
$500 900 men, while there has been eN-
pended to carry them on no less than
the uncomfortable sum of Si3, OO0, OO0.-
600. OF this amount France has paid
nearly $780, 1000 as the cost Of the
war with Prussia, while her loss in men
is placed at 155 900. OF these $1,000
we're killed on the field of battle, $4,000
died Of sickness, accidents or suicide and
10000 in German prisons, while there
died from other causes enough TO bring
the number up to the given aggregate.
The sick and wounded amounted to
IN, 421, the lives Of many thousands Of
= HON were doubtless shortened by their
: ness or injuries.
According TO DR.. Roth, a German
IIthority, the Germans lost during the
war go, 900 men killed or rendered invalid
and 5000, 0O0, 900 in money, this being
the excess Of expenditure or Of material
losses over the 81, $50, 900, 900 paid by
Trance by way Of indemnity.
DR.. Engel, another distinguished Ger
man statistician, gives the following a.
the approximate cost of the principal
wars of the last thirty years: Crimean
war, s., OOO, 900, 900; Italian war of 1859,
$500, 600, 900; Prusso-D Danish war OF 1864,
$751; OO. 900; war of the rebellion, north
-. 100, 900, 600, south s., 800. 600, 600;
pIusso-Austro Wal of 1896, 1880, 900 900;
Russo-Turkish war, S125. 600. 600; South
African wars, -, 80, 600; Afghan war,
$780, 50, 900; Seryo-Bulgarian war. $l76,
co., 900.
All these wars were murderous in the
extreme. The Crmean war, in which
few battles were fought, cost $50, 900
4AFos oull VpsVVV less lnhu were hlllcH
or died Of their wounds, north and
fouth, during the war Of the rebellion.
The figures. it must be remembered. are
German, and might not agree precisely
with American estimates. The Mexican
Hud Chinese expeditions cost 5000, 200, 600
and 65, 900 lives.
There were 100000 killed and MORALLY
Wounded during the Russo-Turkish war.
and 45, 1000 each in the Italian war OF
SO and the war between Prussia and
AUSTRIA. In the other wars the loss OF
} fe was relatively less, which did not
make either the men or money easier to
part with in the more limited areas
where they occurred.
And this is but a part of the account
ing, since it does not include the mill.
IONS expended during the last twenty
ears in maintaining the vast ornaments
9 fthe European powers, the losses caused
v the stoppage of commerce and manu-
lectures, and the continual arrangement
OF industries by tho abstraction from
useful employment of so many millions
1t persons held for a period of military
service extending from three to five
years.-San Francisco Chronicle.