Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — Cost of Our Indian Wars. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Our Indian Wars.

New York Times. 1 Beginning with the Fourth of July, 1776, the War and Indian Departments together have expended in the neighborhood of sl T oo<>,ooo,ooo in the settlement of I ndian disputes, and the sacrifice of human life in connection with the various rebellions, massacres and uprisings has been more appalling and even more costly than the vast outlay of funds above quoted. One thousand million dollars is an enormous sum of money. The foreign wars we have been engaged in, bulkeq in a lump, nowhere approach the Indian outlay