New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-05-08
rur COST OF THE WAR.

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.;mates the cash cost of the
a. TO August |, 1915, at ST.
hi GOO coo. and other losses will
inc the grand total Of costs up
| els. ooo.ooo.ooo.
The mind can not grasp what
L5 coo 100000 may be, but DR..
avid Starr Jordan has attempted
\ give some conception of the
(npendous figures by a series of
at is four times all the coin in
he world" says DR.. Jordan. eff
h;s sum were measured out in
90 gold pieces and they We're
laced side by side on the rail
.ay train on each rail, they would
no with gold every line from
ew York to the Pacific ocean. the
ro Canadian lines included.
here would he enough left to
,yer each rail of the Siberian
,;lwav from Vladivostock to
ptrogyad. There would still re-
ain sufficient TO rehabil;tate Bel
lin and TO buy the whole Of
urkev, at her own valuation.
iping her finally from the map.
cor we may figure in some
her fashion. The average work-
gman in America earns 1913
r year. 1t would take 10000
0 years work to pay the cost
the war; or 9O,OOO,OOO Ameri-
II laborers might pay it off in
e year if all their living expen-
!, were paid.
''The cost of year Of the great
n is a little more than the esti-
ted States west of the Miss
ippi river. 1t is nearly equal
the total value of all the prop
y in Germany $4S,0OO,O0O-
y as estimated in 1906. The
ole Russian empire ($35,O0O.-
1000 could have been bought
less sum before the war be-
q. 1t could he had. on a cash
e, more cheaply now. This
n would have paid for all the
'perty in Italy ($13,00O,000.
y; Japan ($1O,OOO,OOO,OOO)
land ($5,0OO.0OO, 000); Bel
m ($7, OOO,O00,0 OO); Spain
,OO0,0 O0,0OO) Portugal 49,
,000,OOO.) 1t is three times
entire yearly earnings in
,es and salaries of the people
the United States ($15, 0W.-
,OOO.)
Taking the net profits of over
) trade as stated by the Ham
g American company year
/, the strongest in the world,
estimating the rest, we have
like this: During the
Y war the net earnings Of the
man mercantile fleet were
ut one-t third the cost Of the
v supposed to protect it. 1t
I'D take seventy years Of trade.
the scale Of the last year be-
, the war, to repay Germany's
enses for a year of war. To
re good all the war losses of
ope would require about one
dred and fifty years Of the
rseas trading profits of the
Id. War is therefore death to
lie, and the commerce Of the
Id is one Of the main agencies
'1VlllZat1On.
The cost of this war would pay
national debts Of all the ma
S in the world at the time the
broke out, and this aggre-
IS sum Of $40, 900, 100000 for
world was all accumulated in
criminal stupidity of the
$ of the nineteenth century.
ii the farms. farming lands
factories of Tire United States
e wiped out Of existence the
of this war would more than
ace them. II all the per-
Il and real property of half
nation were destroyed, or il
earthquake Of incredible d.
sions should shake down ev-
house from the Atlantic to
Pacific. the waste would be
than that involved in this +,
And an elemental catas-
he leaves behind it no costly
CIV of hate"
is frequently argued that the ,
eerent nations must soon
fighting because they will ,
re the futility of the. fearful
e SYRUP or FIGS"