Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — The World’s Armies. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Armies.

The armies of the world, or rather of civilized nations, include 3,600,000 men. These men, and almost as many more who are required to wait upon them in some form or other, are consumers and not producers of the world’s supply of food. Besides the loss of their time and labor, they cost at least SI,OOO a year each, and that amounts to $3,600,000,000. In proportion to population our army of 26,000 men is by far the smallest in the world.