The Arizona champion., 1891-01-24
HUMAN CARNAGE.
Statistics of Wars of the Last
 Thirty Years.
OVER 2,5oO,O0O MEN KILLED IN BATTLE.
What it Cost the Various Countries, =
 The Civil War.

In time of peace the statisticians count the cost of war in men and money, which does not seem, however, to have any effect whatsoever in the way of pre- vention. The fact is neither govern ments nor peoples want war in the ab- 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 afterward; while as for the prospective debt, nation as sumes it in advance as coolly as farmer places a mortgage on his farm.
 According to the estimates of French and German statisticianS there have per ished in the wars of the last thirty years 2,500,000 men, while there has been ex- pended to carry them on no less than the inconceivable sum of SIS, ,000,- 900. Of this amount France has paid nearly S, ,50O, ,O00, 900 as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss in men is placed at 155, ,000. Of these S0,000 were killed on the field of battle, 36, 900 died of sickness, accidents or suicide and died from other causes enough to bring the number up to the given aggregate. The sick and wounded amounted to AT, ,421, the lives of many thousands of whom were doubtless shortened by their illness or injuries.
 According to Dr. Roth, German authority, the Germans lost during the war 60, ,O00 men killed or rendered invalid and 5000, 900, 600 in money, this being the excess of expenditure or of material losses over the $1 ,250, ,000, 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: CFimean war, S, ,000, ,O0O, GOO; Italian war of 1859, $500, 900, ,000; Pruso-Danish war of 1864, $35, ,000, ,000; war of the rebellion, north s, 100000, ,000, south $500, ,000, ,000; Prusso- -AustTo war of 1866, $330, ,000, GOO; Russo Turkish war, $125, ,00O, 900; South African wars, $S,770, 900; Afghan war, SIS, ,25O, 900; Servo-Bulgarian war. $17S,- COG, 900.
 All these wars were murderous in the extreme. The Crimean war, in which few battles were fought, cost 750,000 lives, only 50,O00 less than were killed or died of their wounds, north and south, during the war of the rebellion. The figures, it must be remembered, are German, and might not agree precisely with American estimates. The Mexican and Chinese expeditions cost $200, ,00O, 900 and 1000 lives
 There were 250,000 killed and mortaIly wounded during the Russo Turkish war, and ,000 each in the Italian war of 1859 and the war between Prussia and Austria. In the other wars the loss of life 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 part of the account ing, since it does not include the mill ions expended during the last twenty years in maintaining the vast arnamentB of the European powers, the losses caused by the stoppage of commerce and manu- factures, 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 { years.-San Francisco Chronicle.