The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-16
NOT so COSTLY.
Some Nations Have Made Millions
Out of War.

War isn't so costly luxury, after all
except to the vanquished. In fact, says
a writer in the English CasselFs Saturday
Journal, there can be but little doubt that
war. if waged successfully, is one of the
finest methods of national money making
it is possible to conceive, and this point
of view is particularly interesting just
now when we hear so much about our
enormous expenditure in dispatching an
army to South Africa, and the tremendous
cost England is being let in for through
have happened during the last twenty or
thirty years, the victorious nations have
at the close been able to regard their
banking accounts with a considerable de-
gree Of competency, and to agree with
the remark which statesmen make THAI
there are some things worse than war.
Japan made an exceedingly fine thing
out OF her war with China, which she
managed so well. Japan had only $1,000
men engaged, and the war cost her al
together the comparative trifle of Sc, O00,
900. China had TO pay her afterward the
nice little sum of &3l, 100000, leaving a
clear profit of Ed, 0O0O 900. which. reckon
ing the time the war lasted, worked out
TO profit of $40 per Jap a week.
Germany must be the admiration Of
f1nanciers for the way in which she runs
her wars and the little pile she makes
out of them. Her famous war with France
in 1870 is what ministers of finance dream
about: This war cost her roughly about
e115, 900, 600. The government voted &c.,
000, 900 of this for expenses, and the pen
sions which she had to pay afterward TO
her disabled soldiers cost 900. To
these items has to be added one of ESQ
900, 900 for the loss sustained by her 1,000.-
600 soldiers being taken away from their
occupations.
on the other side, we find France pay
ing up an indemnity at the finish to the
tune of no less than 600, 00O, 600, and even
this huge amount by no means represents
the total of Germany's receipts. Alsace
and Lorraine, which she captured from
- oil ID af H.
took general goods home with her to the
value of 10000, 600, another e., 900 900 in
railway carriages and engines; and she
got ESQ, 900 worth of food and clothing
for her army while in France, giving the
French tradesmen '.requisitions," or re-
ceipts which were handed at the close
OF the war to their own government, who
paid up accordingly. Add to all this the
912, 100000 which Germany received as in
terest on the indemnity before it was all
paid. and we get &917. 900 900 as her war
receipts. Subtracting her loss of els, 0OO,-
600, we find her with clear profit of con-
that France IS so sore upon the point. II
was not long before the war with France
that Germany squeezed an indemnity of
IS, $50, 900 out of Austria after only a
month of war.
Russia would like few streaks of luck
like this, for all her experiences have
not been very happy pecuniarily. For in
stance, there was her war with Turkey
rather more than twenty years ago.
which might have balanced very salts
factorily if the powers had not inter-
Tered After seven months lighting she
sent in a bill to Turkey for 9141, 900 600,
dividing it into $50 100000 for expenditure
on her army and war material, and 951,-
100000 for injury to Russian commerce
She offered TO take 932. 900 in cash
and the balance in kind-that is, territory.
I. but the powers drew the line at the terri
tory AS everybody knows, Turkey has
not paid off that indemnity yet and is
not likely to do so, so that Russia lost
| heavily.