The Thirst for Blood.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 236, 10 April 1896, Page 3

The Thirst for Blood.

Speaking at Montrose not long ago Mr John Morley called attention to the growing militarism which is so marked a characteristic of tbe present day and which Mr John Bright was wont to predict would hurry Europe into some frightful cataclysm. Mr Morley said : - "We are now living; i n days when there was a great and universal call to arms. Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium Holland had a population of 144,000,000, and of the military age about 28,000,000, or one-fifth of the total population. The total force under arms in these countries was 1,720,000. One man in 17 was wasting in camps the substance, the skill, the industry, which, under a happier state of things he would be using in adding to the wealth of the world. The United Mates population this year would probably be about 72,000,000. Taking the same proportion of one-fifth, the population of military age would be about 14,500,000. The whole armed force on land and sea was not 1,720,000, but 40,000 ; in other words, instead of one man in 17 being in the camps, there was only one in 860. If the United States were to be so infatuated - which they certainly would not be — as by bad diplomacy and foolish policy to need a military scale equal to that of the Powers he had mentioned they would require to have an armed force of 560,000. They were much too wise to have auy- - thing of the kind. They had thus to face the rivalry, as Mr Cobden pointed out many years ago, of a pacific, a highlytaxed, and a very skilful and energetic community. Did be draw the conclusion that, in order to meet them, that they were to lower wages, lengthen hours, starve education, grudge wholesome amusement ? No, all experience and all observation showed that ill-paid labour was not the cheapest labour, but very often the dearest."

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