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Show 106 to7 the linited States was 512.773.230.173, This was gradually reduced The financial statement currently relied upon indicates a deficit of about $89,000,000,000 for the year ending in July, 1909. For the last fifteen years the world has spent annually one thousand millions of dollars in sustainingr war equipments. Sup- pose this were spent for uplifting;~ humanity and bettering the conditions of the world. it would bttild and operate all tlte great waterways and canals which have heretofore been projected but which have failed for lack of financial support, It would tunnel our mountains for their hidden gems; it would bttild in the moun‘ tain gorges immense reservoirs front which the parched plains and deserts might be irrigated and transformed into vast rich tields, doubling the nation's agricultural products, It would bttild all the needed highways for private and public eonmterce; it would endow hospitals. churches, schools attd colleges, attd place their blessings within the reach of every individual. "Give me the money which has been spent in war," said a recent speaker, "and i will purchase every foot of land ttpott the globe; I will clothe every man, woman and child itt attire of which kings and queens might be proud; i will httild a school- house on every hillside and in every valley over the whole earth: I will build an academy in every town and endow it; a college in every state and fill it with able professors: i will crown every hill with a place of worship consecrated to the promulgation of the till m 1300 it amounted to 810‘ ,140,205, but on account of the Spanish \\ar and an increased pension list it again passed the $.31NXHXK71H10tllIU‘ls', and in 1004 it was "204003.585. 'l'he expense growing out of the War of the Rebellion from 'ltllvt' t. tNttt, to _[une 30, 1870, was 33.844571431, or more than tnuneh to have purchased, at $2,000 eaclL every slave liberated b_\ reason of the war. t'ttuld such a ~ettlt‘tttcttt oi the slave question have been made tn Woo. the nation would have poured this vast sum into tlte lap oi the South, and thus haw made of that section the most attract- tte garden spot of the continent. It, would now be preparingr to t‘rlebrate a halt t‘tntuty of ttnparalleled prosperity. with praise for the natton on the lips of every inhabitant, including the aged and ""MJUH ttttttt‘t‘t lltltm voting. There would be no national scar of battle: no black n;t mory tti the past: no ('hiclv'antaujqa. no Gettysburg, n0 Ander- ‘-Utl\ llltt with tln tr unparalleled. indescribable panorama of btlllt‘Tv mg. 'l lltTt' would hate been no forty years of disheartened and tl1‘-lttttt'tt‘nit1;: tt't'ort to again bring to this desolated section the ,ippt aranrt‘ of ptospt rity hetore enjoy ed. lint as human language is inadequate to describe the awful- m , s of \that actually occurred durincr a four years‘ war, so does language tail to portray what happiness and joy would have tlotttd from a ptareable settlement of tlte questions involved, luv-(d wt a tttr‘ttt‘} indemnity even much less than the amount \ta‘tt d in "at. l‘ttttlt t.\'m\ to two; he \ttt'tl‘t in military atl'airs St ,200,ooo.00<_), .tlnw-t tt‘l , ,.:.\e canceled our national debt. \\'e pay out :n l"t.(‘ wt pone t . tnvlttarv and na\al purposes annually intorc ' c » , . » . r . . than .0 NLHM. \\lttlt' tor ad other purposes \tl civil govern- gospel of peace," The cost of war rtttts into figures so large that the tttind cannot comprehend them, England's recent lioer war, which scents only an incident \then compared with the great wars atlair. recorded itt history, was nevertheless an expensive it cost her more than $I,too,<')0o,ooo in money, not to mention the ment, H‘t‘ltttltttti the ltttllt‘tltl, legislathe and executive branches, this money loss otherwise sustained. 'l‘he value of the nation of "it would has been pointedly illustrated by a writer who says: \\( ‘tn tat It» that: Stt‘s‘fammott. that b. \tlz'le \\e in the linited States boast of our govern- have furnished l‘ine‘land's needy with the il'tllowing things: tt:t‘ttt lx l.t\\ and our treedum trom the oppression of militarism too old people's homes, at $100,000 each. 1.000 public playgrounds, at $50.000 each. Looo public libraries, at $30.000 each. we ill! "in t'« we .11" t::dl_\ tor naval and military purposes in times t't titan tnnmkx‘ llh~lt‘ than it costs to rttn the three "rent (ltlmtltia nt | uni rttil emet'ntnent, b .‘\s a it t, t ttlt' taves art more burdensome, our debts 2er tttt'ttas id t mt.l t ..t d.-bnt "~ "'Utaunts are ‘ " greater than our reeetph‘ I . 1.000 trade schools, at $200,000 each. 500 hospitals, at $200000 each. 3,000 public schnwils, at $400,000 each. 150.000 \\'orl\‘ingmen's homes, at $2,000 each.H |