The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-02

on,y the dawn OF the millennium. that
blIssfM era N which the lion and the
lamb shall lie DOWN together, the iamo
being on the outside OF the king or
beasts and not within. VIII witness the
decadsnce OF envy, hatred. malice ana
ambition. and the relega:ion Of war into
the unknowable, II such q condition can
be found TO exist There viii be 10 more
wars. for the sword shall be .urned into
a piowyhare and the m0aern weapon OF
destructiveneS probably worked up into
some other agricultural implements. IRIS
wis;ful condition VIII fall heavily upon
the professional soldier, sailor or marine.
and they viii have TO initiate their les
favored brethren and hustle around might
lily for something 70 eat and wear.
There win be no fat comrnissary and no
rotund euartermaster to minister. 10 their
plebeian wants. for the rue viii be. fish
or cut bait This win throw a good
many men out Of lifelong jobs, and as n
rule there Will follow lively competition
for places in the trades. professions and
ordinary labor markets. The fate OF cur
inyincib,e ironc,ads viii be sealed the mo-
ment the millennium. that epoch so long
IN contemplation, becomes reality. and
we shall have 10 knock them to pieces
and sell them to old junk men 10 be used
for ignob,e purposes.
Wars have been expensive indulgences
ever since Pharaoh attempted to control
the children OF Israel and TO corral them
on the historic banks OF the Red sea,
in which his chasing cohorts took their
last involuntary bath. If all the mea
who fell under Caesar, Alexander, Pom
pey, Hannibal and other great generals CT
ancient times, could be laid out at full
length they would probably make a line
long enough to stretch around the world.
In modern times. leaving Napoleon the
Great, Wellington. Washington and other
great generals out of consideration, and
only figuring from the -Crimea to Mexico,
over a million and a half OF soldiers have
been wiped Off the face of the earth. and
the cost OF the wars in which they fell
reached nearly ten billion dollars. Think
OF this squander OF life and money most
OF il 10 sustain some rotten king on a rot
ten throne.
1t is the purpose, beginning with the
Crimean Wa. in which Russia single
handed was overwhelmed by England.
France. Turkey, and Piedmont tnow a
part of Italy). to outline the losses of tie
various nations which have been in bat
tie array.
France sent 500 esS men to the Crimean
var. Her loDe1 were. Killed. 1920; died
in France from the effects of the cam
paign. l5.025; drowned. 702; died in hosp
tails, 69.64S: total, &,615.
paign was 1854, and her losses. slain or
died of wounds, AGO.
Piedmont sent 12,0o0 men. and lost ABA.
or one-Sixth OF the force, twenty-eight In
battle and 2. leo in hospitals.
The total losses have been summed ZIP
as follows: Russian army. $4,000, allies,
I54.9Sl. total, 1Sl, 991.
In the Italian war of 1859 it Ia estimated
that the losses reached $500, divided:
French, 1915; Italians. 6.575; Austrian. as
60
1t is estimated that the killed, wound
ed and missing of both sides In our civil
war reached a million and half Of men.
Ten hundred and forty-eight lives were
lost, either through gunshot wounds or
sickness in the war between Denmark and
Prussia by the Germans, while Denmark
lost 1887, making a total of 1l,S25.
In the war between Prussia and Aus
tria the former lost 1857 and the latter
S4,o4i, the principal loss being by capture,
s7,743
The Crimean war cost: