Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — The Terrible War Bill. [ARTICLE]

The Terrible War Bill.

The wars of Napoleon in 13 years cost France $1,000,000,000. Our Civil War expenditure of the federal government amounted to $3,400,000,000 or nearly 13 times as much year as Napoleon's. The FrancoGerman war cost France $1,580,000,000, besides an added war indemnity of $1,000,000,000. This same great war, which lasted only 100 days, cost Germany $450,000,000 for an average fighting force of 1,250,000 men. The other big European war of the past half century, the Russo-Turkish war, cost Russia $786,140,000 but she had two years’ fighting for her money. The war in the far east cost Japan $650,000,000 and Russia $723,000,000, not counting lost ships. Only toward the end had either side anything like a million men in the field.ltaly's little war with Turkey cost $400,000 a day, allowing for a mere 60,000 fighting men, and the Boer war, in which England’s army averaged 200,000, cost $1,055,000,000 in two and a half years.—Leslies.