WHAT WAR COSTS.
A cheat amount of money is necessary in order to kill in proper ir.ann r, for each man slain costs about £’l4oo. The continually increasing and multiplying taxes of all nations are never sufficient to pay for the butchery of human troops. Eveiy year Europespends moreltian £200,000,000 in shedding her children's b o id ; and iu France alone £BO,OOO is spent every day. The war iu America did not cost less than £800,000,000. Since the Crimean war down to that of 1870-71 the civilised nations of Europe and America spent in destroying one another £2.000,000,000 of the ordinary budget and more than £2,000,000,000 raised expiessly for the put pose, making a total of £4,000,000,000. The wars of the last 100 years have cost the sum of £28,000,000,000, without counting the sorrow, the loss of men, and other deplorable results.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 305
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142WHAT WAR COSTS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 305
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