What War Costs | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

What War Costs.

DUDLEY BAXTER, an accurate statistician in Europe, makes up the war debts of Christendom to the day of Sedan. And this is the instructive tabulation of figures he gives us:—

Great Britain........................$3,840,000,000. Continent of Europe..................10,394,064,000. America..............................3,673,536,000. Asia.................................502,636,000. Africa...............................190,344,000. Australasia..........................171,571,200.

Now this vast amount does not include the £200,000,000 which France is to pay to Germany, nor the debt she has contracted in carrying on the war against that power. To be within the mark, or this side of the actual fact, let us assume that the latter debt will not exceed £100,000,000, and that the whole aggregate debt of France for this war will be £300,000,000; and also that what she pays Germany will reimburse that power for all its increased expenses on account of the conflict. This is a very moderate estimate, and yet it adds to the total we had at the beginning of the war £300,000,000, raising it to £4,240,865,000, or $20,212,152,000.