Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — It Staggers Humanity. [ARTICLE]

It Staggers Humanity.

When the English budget was introduced somebody said that every Boer killed had cost $5,000. The British have certainly not killed 10,000 Boers. It is doubtful whether they have killed 5,000. If it has cost them $750,000,000 to kill 10,000 Boers, that is $75,000 per Boer. If only 5,000 have been disposed of, the butcher’s bill amounts to $150,000 apiece. There were less than 40,000 Boer families in the two repub-

lies when the war began. England could have given every family $20,000 without spending any more than she has paid for fighting. The Boer republics, whose combined population is less than that of Detroit or Milwaukee, have given the British empire the most costly war it has ever had in its whole history in the same space of time. England has just borrowed $300,000,000 to pay a mere installment of the cost of the Boer war. The Crimean war of three years increased the national debt by $195,000,000. The Boer war has lasted a year and a half. In that time England has had to borrow

more than she ever borrowed in any two years of any other war in her history. Moreover she has spent more than we spent in our civil war in the same length of time. Our most expensive year was the fiscal year 1865,when we had over a million soldiers under arms. The cost of the war for the year was $570,887,377.89. England has paid over $750,000,000 for a year and a half of Boer fighting and expects to pay a billion before the job is over.

At Naundorf in the Hunsdick near the Rhine, a Roman temple has been

enclosed in a walled enclosure measuring 220 by 200 feet. The temple stands in the middle and is 60 feet by 50. It contains more terracotta objects than have been discovered hitherto in Germany. They are votive offerings, about 100 being whole figurines representing goddesses. Small bronze statuettes of Mars, Jupiter and Mercury have also been found.

The Pennsylvania railroad is reported to have over 28,000 individual shareholders who must be notified of the new stock allotment and receive subscription warrants.