Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Armies of Civilized Nations. [ARTICLE]

Armies of Civilized Nations.

The armiesof the world, or rather of the civilized nations, include 3,600,000 men. These men, and almost as many more who are required to wait upon them -in' seme 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, dnd that amounts to $3,600,000,000. *