The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-16
Fourth Losses and War.

Revolutionary War, and the total
number of casualties of Fourth
of July celebrations during the
last four years Is more than dou
BILE the total losses of the Amer.
cans during the eight years of
the Revolutionary War, accord.
ing to statements contained in an
article entitled. ''Tho Glorious
Fourth" IN the current issue of
the National Food Magazine. The
magazine gives table OF com
PARSONS showing the losses in
the battle of the Revolutionary
War compared with the total cas-.
ualities of all the Fourth of July
celebrations since 1908, and says:
olive thousand people IN the
United States, mostly children,
and now we'll and happy, will be
either dead or wounded within
the next few days, or before the
celebration of this Fourth of July
is ended. If England has a re
vengeful soul she must laugh In
hellish glee to see us turn our
weapons of death on ourselves
and carry on forever aud with
fourfold energy the work Ct
slaughter she began during the
Revolutionary War.
Every Fourth of July more
people IN the United States are
KILLED IN celebrating our inde
pendence than were killed IN the
bloodlest battle of the Revolution.
airy War. The number of killed
and injured during the last
Fourth of July was nearly ten
times as great as were the Amer.
lean losses at Bunker Hill; it was
fifty times as great as at the
com bined battles of Lexington
and Concord, more than sixty
times that of our losses at Ben
nlngton; over seven times the
American losses at Germantown;
more than four times the number
of our soldiers killed, wounded
and imprisoned at the battle of
Brandy vine, and more than twice
as great as all the losses the
American arms sustained at Cam
den.
"The list is nearly seven times
as great as the nun Der of British
killed and wounded at Kings
Mountain; 1t is eight times as
many as the American losses at
Eutaw Springs; more than ten
times our losses at Gulltord Court
House, and more than sixty two
times as great as our losses at
Cowpens.
"If these comparisons are not
sufficiently convincing to prove
the horror and destructlveness of
our Fourth of July celebration,
then comb blne both the British
and the American losses of the
bloodiest battles of the Revolu-
ton and multiply that by two,
and even then you will have to
add. more to equal the figure Ct
the total casualtle. of our pres
ent day Fourth OF July celeDra.
tlons. And then If that c0mpari.
son is not sufficiently convincing,
let it be remembered that the
casualties of every Fourth of July
are greater than the total lumber
of both British and American
soldiers engaged in most OF the
battles of the Revolutionary War.
at should be remem bered that
the losses in the battles mention.
ed include the killed, wounded
and the mum ber of prisoners taxi
en-.
"Other comparisons might be
given by citing the Battle of Ger.
mantown, where the Americans
lost 1000 and the British 600;
Lexington and Concord, with a
British loss of 273; Camden, where
the American loss was 2000;
Kings Mountain at which the
British lost 456, killed and wound
ed, and 64S prisoners; and Benn
ington, where the British lost $50
and the Americans 70.
''Ihus 1T is seen that our cele.
bratlon of the victory over the
British is many times more dis.
astrous than our war with the
British; that Great Britain was