. Christian herald. on. As the war goes on trade declines still fur-ther. Food prices advance, other nations take overthe foreign trade of the combatants, and when thevictorious side closes the campaign it finds that ithas to commence another kind of campaign in orderto build up its ruined trade with the rest of theworld. Acute industrial depression invariably fol-lows a war, and this phase will be more marked inthe wars of the future. It were bad enough if the enormous sums namedabove were only the stakes of war when the grimdogs are loosed, but that is not all; the watchdogmust be fed, and t
. Christian herald. on. As the war goes on trade declines still fur-ther. Food prices advance, other nations take overthe foreign trade of the combatants, and when thevictorious side closes the campaign it finds that ithas to commence another kind of campaign in orderto build up its ruined trade with the rest of theworld. Acute industrial depression invariably fol-lows a war, and this phase will be more marked inthe wars of the future. It were bad enough if the enormous sums namedabove were only the stakes of war when the grimdogs are loosed, but that is not all; the watchdogmust be fed, and that is no small task. The TripleAlliance for its 1,555,000 soldiers and sailors (be-fore Germanys new scheme was put in effect) paid$563,760,000. The Dual Alliance with its 1,900,000men pays each year $617,220,000. The maintenanceof Great Britains army and navy, which contain380,000 men, costs $349,920,000, and for our ownarmy and navy the United States pays only $218,-700,000, though it employs 156,000 men. Germany. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCEGermany, 19 per cent.; Austria, 14 UNITED STATES6 per cent. GREAT BRITAIN6 per cent. per cent. ; Italy, 16 per cent. under her new scheme for 1913 holds the unenviableleadership of the world for military will have 860,000 men in arms, and it will costher $602,640,000. This vast wealth Germany be-lieves she must expend in guarding commercialinterests which are no more valuable and certainlynot as promising as those of the United States. America has built up her world trade in a phe-nomenally short time without making war. Shecaptures trade, not territory. With one small armyand one navy she guards land which is greater inarea than Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia in Europe,and France. Roughly it may be said that the UnitedStates with its possessions has almost the samearea as Europe, and to keep the peace in Europesome twenty armies are required, costing over$1,069,200,000 a year. Add navy costs and thetotal comes to nearly $2,000,0
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