The Lasting Costs of War

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Sep 26, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 37.

The Lasting Costs of War

The wages of war are not only manifest at the time when the war is carried on. The great burden of debt and distress, penury and suffering, come after the war is over. For instance, the annual average expense of Japan for the three years preceding her war with Russia was 268,600,000 yen; but for the year since the war closed the expense has been 437,000,000 yen. And the debt which war saddled upon the Little Empire is 1,805,000,000 yen, and that loads down the little brown people with an annual burden of 32,000,252 yen interest; but there is no prospect that war will ever cease, with the mighty increase of the navies and armies, until Christ shall come.