The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-05-23
THE CAMP FIRE.
WHAT IS GOING ON AMONG THE
HEROES.
Splendid Record Of an. nth Illinois
C.vsiary An Old veisrAn's Sad sui
cide-The Cost OF Late Wars
The Eleventh Psnnsyivanis-


what Wars Cost.
In time OF peace the statisticians
count the cost OF wars In men and
money. which does not seem, how
ever. 10 have any effect whatever in
the way Of prevention. The fact 10.
neither government nor people want
war In the abstract. though there al
ways exist latent jealousies and ha-
treds and tho desire for advantages
which war alone can bring that rem
der IL possible ut any moment You
cannot make governments count their
dead beforehand. though IL Is easy
enough TO count them afterward, while
as for the prospective debt, nation
assumes IL In advance as coolly as n
farmer places mortgage on his farm.
According 10 the estimates OF
French and German statlsticlans there
have persisted In the wars OF the last
thirty years 2.250.0 600 men, while
there has been expended to carry
them on no less than. the inconceiva-
BILE sum OF SIS, 900. 900. 600. OF this
amount France has nearly paid So
500. 600. 900 as the cost OF the war
with Prussia. while her loss in men
Is placed at l55. 900. OF these so.
600 were killed on the field OF battle.
SO. 900 died OF sickness. accidents or
suicide, and 20, 900 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 Az, 421. the
lives OF many thousands OF whom
were doubtless shortened by their ill
ness or injuries. According 10 DR..
Roth. German authority. the Ger
mans lost 800. 600 men killed or rem
dered invalid. and 5000. 900. 900 in
money. this being the excess OF ex-
penditure or OF the material losses
over tho 81. $50. 900, 900 paid by
France by way. Of indemnity.
DR.. Engel another distinguished
German statistician, gives the follow
ing as the approximate cost OF the
principal wars of the last thirty years:
Crimean war. ~. 900. 600, 900; Italian
war OF 1859, $500. 600 600; Prusso-
Danish war OF 1864. $50. OC0, 900; war
OF the rebellion, north. So. 100 900. 600;
south 81. 800. 600, 900; Prusso- Austrian
war OF 1866. $3.50, 600. 900; Russo
Turkish war, 1928 600 900; South
African wars, 1910 900; Afghan war,
$l3, $50, 600. servo Bulgarian war,
$l76, 900, 900. All these wars were
Crimean war. in which few battles
were fought. cost 100 900 lives, only
90. 900 less than were killed or died OF
their wounds, north and south. dur
ing the rebellion, The figures II
must be remembered are Ger
man, and might not agree pre-
cisely with American estimates. The
Mexican and Chinese expeditions cost
5000, 900. 900 and 65. 900 lives. There
were $50. 900 killed and MORALLY
wounded during the Russo-Turkish
war. and As. 900 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 oc-
Cured. And this Is but part OF the
accounting. since IL does not include
the millions expended during the last
twenty years In maintaining the war
ornaments of the European powers,
the losses caused by the stoppage OF
commerce and manufacturers, and the
continual arrangement OF industries
by the abstraction from useful en-
ployment OF so many millions OF per-
sons held for n period OF military
service extending from three to five
years. San Francisco Chronicle.