Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-07-24

soldiers or Beers; they are our brotherk Talk OF
'Boer treachery!' On both sides the war il trea.
son against humanity. It is all unmitigated sav.
agery and diabolism, the work OF darkness and
delusion. There may be . little more or 4 little
lea military etiquette on this side or on that but
etiquette does not disguise the savagery to an,
one that remains sane. When 4 missile from one
Of our naval gums comes crashing along, it does
not stand on ceremonies It kills everybody with.
in reach. That Is war.-From Brotherhood. Lon
don, December, 1899.
"War Is the argument Of the savage,
not Of the civilized man. It Is the re-
sort of brute force because one side or
the other or both have not enough
Christianity In them to be willing to
find brotherly ways and means out Of
difficulty other than physical force,
which Is contrary to Gods higher law
and always results in enormous loss
and misery.
"A glance at the cost of war will
give us some idea of the awful waste
Of life and property which this I'm.
Christian method of settling human
disputes entails.
''Take the cost of war vessel like
the Oregon, 1891, TT, and that is only
small item to begin with, for the cost
Of equipment, ammunition, pay for it's
officers and crew, cost Of moving it or
even of letting it lie idle in any port, is
something enormous. The coal bill of
Admiral Dewey for one month two
years ago was $S1,S72. During our
brief war with Spain in Cuba we spent
81, 74e,9s for additional vessels to use
as transports, ferryboats, supply ships,
etc. A single gun with its mount costs
as high as $4,000. and 1t costs $500 to
fire 1t each time. The total expenses
Of the Spanish war in Cuba for the
United States are difficult to estimate,
but for every day Of that war the gov.
eminent paid out $96O,OOO. If we add
to that the destruction Of public and
private property, it would be safe to
say that for every "a hours during the
war in Cuba over 100000 was practi-
cally consumed. And, in addition, for
several weeks after the war actually
closed this same expenditure went on.
owing to the expenses which the war
involved, for sustenance of troops, ETC.,
which continued just the same as If
war were in progress.
1.-THE entire amount of money paid
out by the United States during March,
April, May, June, July and August of
1898 was $9S0OO,OOO. All this money,
remember, was expended to destroy
life and property. No matter what the
cause Of a war may be, whether it is
for freedom or rights or anything else,
the expense is the same. And that is
all we are discussing now. A cannon
fired in defense Of ones country kills
and destroys just the same as one
fired in conquest of tyranny. 1t is the
awful waste of property that war
brings that makes it such a fearful
way Of settling human quarrels. The
wars of the world have drained it of
vast resources and left a legacy of
pauperism and bankruptcy and suffer.
ing that ages cannot make good. Ma.
poleon's wars cost Europe over $780,.
100000 and 100000 lives. The Cri.
mean war Of only two years cost ST..
5OO,00O,OOO and 100000 lives. These
100000 bodies laid side by side would
extend in an unbroken line from here
to Chicago. The Franco-German war
cost third Of the entire French army
in killed and disabled, over 100000
lives, and an expense Of $500, 0OO, 600
"Our civil war, beginning, in 1860,
cost US $2,500,0O0 a day for five years.
1t cost us in actual, direct outlay &c..
4OO, OOO,O 900, and counting destruction
to property north and south $4,000.
100000 would hardly cover the cost, q
sum representing nearly one-fourth the
entire valuation of the United States in
1860. Single battles in that war cost
in lives up into the thousands: Bull
Run, 5000; Shiloh, $4,000; Gettysburg,
5000, on both sides; Vicksburg, 3d..
600; the Wilderness, $4,000; Stones
Run, $1,000. The entire number OF
northern soldiers killed was not fa1
from 100000. II every man killed In
the civil war had had private funeral,
the hearses would have made a solid
line from New York to San Francisco
Add to these killed all the losses in
cidental In the families that were be.
reaved and beggared and you have
only one Of the awful chapters which
war has always written in the history
Of sinful world. In the last century
it is estimated that Christian nations
have destroyed $4,000, 100000 worth
Of property and killed 100000 men
Put these men In single file and they
would make a procession that would
stretch clear across the United States
from Portland, Me-, to Los Angeles
CAL and it would take them two
months to march past a given point
marching day and night without rest
[These figures have been compiled by
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant
secretary Of the United States treas
ury, and George B. Waldron.]
"And yet these statistics Of war d.
not begin to tell the story of the bruta
education of men made In Gods i'm
age. The sorrow and the anguish an(
the havoc wrought by all the long lis
Of succeeding events that follow every
war are SIMPLY appalling. This re
sort to brute force inevitably leads K
horrors that are indescribable in thei,
effect upon body and soul. Read tn
detailed accounts of some of the bat
ties recently fought in the Philippine
and South Africa, and we are sickene,
| oy the mere reading.
'But some one may say: Some war
are surely justif1able. Those wars tina
were waged for human freedom, Ik
our own for independence, and, again
in order to defend the Union-thes
wars must have been necessary an
right
But even IL we grant that certain