Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-29
BLOODY ANGLES OF PEACE
Horrors of War COntrasted with
SIaughters in Various Peace
full Pursuits.

Some Of the horrors that are not due
to war are pointed out by the Army and
Navy Journal in answer TO those who
constantly protest against q generous gov
eminent appropriation for the army and
navy.
Prom figures in the Congressional Rec
ord it is shown that in the last fourteen
years 251oo coal miners have been killed
and 50.003 manned or crippled. a number
about equal 70 our entire regular army.
The death rate among miners is greater
in the United States than in any other
country on earth.
The number Of miners killed for each
1000 mer employed for an average five
year period is: In France 81; Belgium.
100; Great Britain, l2s: Prussia, 2Os: United
States. 2sE
The cheapuess OF life in the United
States is shown by comparative figures
in crime. There are four and a half times
as many murders for every million Of our
population teday as there were twenty
years ago. Chicago averages us murders
a year. In the same period Paris records
only fifteen murders and attempted muir
ders. London, four times the size OF Chi
csEo. has only twenty murders
In twelve months Georgia records forty
five homicides-rnore than AL the murders
in the entire British empire in the same
time Ten thousand persons are murdered
yearly in the United States
In three years. we are told, the victims
OF our murders total more than the losses
Of the British army in the B0er war.
Why, II is asked. II standing armies pro-
mote disregard for human life. as has been
said, do so many murders go unpublished in
this country. In Germany, which has ths
largest military establishment in the world
IS per cent Of the murderers are brought 10
justice; In Spain. s. per cent; in France, q
per cent; IN Italy, z per cent; in England,
50 per cent In the United states only
per cent are punished-the figures are those
Of the Army and Navy Journal
Comig 20 fires. the article shows that the
fire loss in six European cities for i've years
was 80 cents per capita while in the United
states il was sac nearly ten times as
much In thirty foreign cities the per
capita loss was g. cents, against $50 In the
five-year average OF - American cities
Taking the number Of fires 10 each 1000 Of
population. there were 455 for the cities Of
this country against -ss for those OF Europe
The fire loss Of the United States for 1857.
including property damaged, maintenance
Of fire departments. fire premiums above
losses protective agencies ETC. was t4ss,-
sss so or Sl-O0a099 more than the estimated
cost Of the Panama canal The lives lost II
fires in the same year, IL is shown, were
] - and the injured b65-Taore than the
number Of killed and wounded in some Of
the important battles Of our countrTs his
tory
The Army and Navy Journal uses these
figures 10 enforce its argument that the
universal peace Agitssors would DO better
10 cease railing al the military and naval
eyta ablishu.uts and devote themselves 70
efforts 10 prevent the destruction OF lie
and property in the Bloody Angles OF
Peace"
But the figures have a curious Interest
aside from any argument They are sur
urik.ng proof tha; the losses Of peaoe, IN
both property and life. are quite comparable
to those Of war-Chicsgo Inter Ocean