WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 44.

WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR.

SAYS Sir John Lubbock, of England: "In fact, we never now have any real peace; we live practically in a state of war, happily without battles or bloodshed, but not without terrible sufferings. Even in our own case, one-third our national income is spent in preparing for future wars, another third in paying for past ones, and only one-third is left for the government of the country. Our interests at stake are enormous, and the interests of nations are so interwoven that every war now is in fact a civil war."

But are there not actual battles and bloodshed in Africa and India? Truly it is not a time of peace. From 1870 to the present the war debt of Europe has increased from twenty thousand million dollars to thirty thousand million—from $20,000,000,000 to $30,000,000,000. And the end is not yet.