Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ary preparation are deemed necessary and the costsof war go on during times of profound peace, millions of men whocould be used effectively in the peaceful industries spending thebest years of their lives in learning the most effective methods ofdestroying their fellow men. This is only one phase of the element of cost. Great work-shops are devoted to the preparation of military material, of abso-lutely no use to mankind except as instruments of destruction.The costs of war, even in times of peace, are thus very large. Butthey increase in an enormous proportion after war has actuallybegun, millions of dollars being needed where tens formerly sufficed,and national bankruptcy threatening the nation that keeps its armieslong in the field. The American Civil War, fought half a centuryago, was a costly procedure for the American people. If it had beenfought five or ten years ago its cost would have been increasedfive-fold, so great has been the progress in this terrible art in theinterval.
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