Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-04-28

worlds history cost anywbera
safety from that mightiest Of w,.
and now is more prosperous. bar,
and contented than any other pattr.
on the globe. If the United Sra,.-
could put UP this kind of a Ggb, !,
a war which closed 80 years ago Who,
could it not do today? Yet, 50 aenss
Is the ignorance of the mass of ~
Spanish people that they are ssos,
TO rush in when other nations nars1
In computing the cost of war T.
money, and in lives, the United States
makes a pretty big showing. We say
that We are not warlike people ana
that 10000 miles of water on eiths,
side OF us cuts us off from foreigr
entanglements. But to put the STAR
and stripes where they are today has
cost us 10 billion dollars and $50 GOO
lives. Over four-fifths of this SIM,
and 100000 of the lives were av
pended in the war for the Union
Even Americans do not genreauv
know that our Indian wars have cost
us another billion dollars, and nearly
$4,000 lives. This sum is three tlrcas
as much as the Revolution, the war
of 1912 and the Mexican war cost us
While in 120 years the United States
has spent 10000, 600 900 dollars, Eng
land in eight of her largest wars IN
the last 800 years has expended the
same amount. Over half of it went
to fight Napolean, and more thar
$40 900, 200, 900 more were expended
in the war which followed the French
to fight Napoleon, and more than
twice as much as we did in the
american revolution, and then had ia
lose her colonies. But in not one
of the great wars in which England
has been engaged has she expended
as much as did the United States in
the war of the rebellion.
The wars which Napoleon / and
Napoleon LII brought upon France
cost that nation nearly three and
half billion dollars. Louis Napoleon's
war with Germany cost France twice
as much money as all the wars of the
great Napoleon, to say nothing of the
loss of two fertile provinces. That
shortlived conflict of 1901 cost
France nearly billion and half
dollars. Besides the billion dollar
indemnity which she was forced to
pay. In lives France lost 29e,00e
men. While the loss of money was
greater in the second war the NOR
tally among the soldiers was not
nearly as heavy as in the earlier
wars. The battles of Napoleon
widowed more than a million French
women, and made 100000 orphans IN
France alone. All told, these wars
took the lives of 100000 men.
In the six campaigns of the Pen
insular war, in which Wellington
drove France out of Spain, 100000
Frenchmen persisted, and the loss Of
the Spanish and their allies was
about the same.
In losses to both sides in war the
figures are still more astounding The
total cost of the Crimean war has
been placed at two billion dollars, and
the loss in men at 100000. The Italian
war of 1859 required $500, 1000 geo and
$4,000 lives. In the short war Of
Prussia and Austria, in 1866, $685.,
600 900 was expended and $4,000 more
men. The Russo-Turkish war of 1877
claimed 100000 men and $125D00 600
1t is stated that in 70 years Russia
has spent in wars $685. 900 900, and in
men 664, 600.
Estimates of the worlds loss of
lives in war reach the bewildering
figure of seven billions, of whom
the beginning of the Christian era
New York Press.