How Much Better It Would Be!
General Miles has said: "The contrast between war and peace is illustrated by the fact that what has been expended on the Philippines would have put water upon every quarter section of arable land in our country where it is required; it would have built for the farmers a splendid system of good roads, or for commerce two ship canals across the isthmus." And the National Daily Review remarks: "This item of foreign outlay, coupled with the fact that the $96,000,000 spent every year on our navy, would give three years' schooling to each one of our 6,000,000 illiterates over ten years old, gives peace an economic value." There are now said to be 2,000,000 children under sixteen years of age compelled to join the ranks of the breadwinners. The increase of child labor for the past twenty years of the last century was 100 per cent., double that of the increase of the population. Better spend more money for education and less for war.