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COMPARATIVE COST OF SWORDS AND PLOUGH-SHARES

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 23.

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COMPARATIVE COST OF SWORDS AND PLOUGH-SHARES.

It is estimated that all the agricultural labor done in England in 1847, cost £18,200,000; and official returns show that the cost of their naval and military establishments for the same year was £18,500,000, that is, 300,000 more than for all their golden harvests and to the 700,000 laborers who produce them. Grave considerations must arise from such a state of things.