Cost of War in Times of Peace

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 13, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 36.

Cost of War in Times of Peace

Cost of War in Times of Peace.—What folly to talk of peace when the nations are war mad. Note this comparison made by a paper in the East, the figures of which will not be disputed. The total naval expenditures in this country for the five fiscal years 1861 to 1865, during which a navy was built great enough to blockade the Atlantic Coast from the mouth of the Potomac to that of the Rio Grande, to chase Confederate privateers around the world, and to cooperate with the army on various rivers and bays, aggregated $326,650,069. During the five fiscal years just closed, 1906 to 1910, years of profound peace, the naval expenditures amounted to $573,022,101. It is said that the Federal Government is spending every working day $3,567,685.66. This is not an omen of stability. It is a sign of the times. See Joel 3:9-12.