War—What For?

by George R. Kirkpatrick

[35]. See Galey: Classic Myths of English Literature, pp. 57–8.

[36]. Restelle: Arena, October, 1906.

[37]. “In round numbers ... so that it is safe to say that more than 700,000 men were killed in the war.”—Professor MacMaster: School History of the United States, p. 422. See Index: “Non-combatants.”

[38]. See quotation from Preface of Bloch’s Future of War near close of present chapter.

[39]. Financial History of the United States, Vol. III., p. 241.

[40]. Arena, Jan., 1897.

[41]. The appropriations for the Navy alone in 1910 are $134,000,000,—which amount is just ten times as great as in 1886. The New York World’s estimate (editorial, March, 1910) is $500,000,000 as the annual cost of militarism in the United States.

[42]. The Contemporary Review, August, 1909.

[43]. New York World, March 1, 1910. See also The World, February 1, 1910.

[44]. See Report of Commissioner of Education, 1908, Vol. II., p. 617.