STATISTICS CF WAR.
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Let us wave the question, says the Buffalo Commercial, whether upon the old notions of national etiquette and honor, the present war can be justified Or not. Possibly it can, hut five do not depart from such notions, 'honor' will be very expensive item. We can maintain this 'honor' if we will pay for it. We always thought that at the close or the revolution the nation established for itself new code of hon or, and rose above the maxims W mich monarchs found so convenient for improper purposes. This was to be cur glory, and distinguished by the univeFsality of education, liberty and com= peience, would not seek the battle, nor shun i, when il came.' ...

 The laboring men, or producing classes, are those who, throughout Christendom, pay nine ientls of the revenue Of their respective governments. The national debts of the va rious Christian countries contracted for wars ta,nouat in the aggregate to 7,50o 900 900 | pounds. The interest on nine tenths of this sum ai per cent. is about $337,Ooo 900 In the next thirty years, the working men of christend"m will haze, to pay $lo Oo0, ,0oo ,ooO for interest on this debt. Think how many days work this IS at 70 cents a day.

 | Ti.is is rot all that we do pay, for it does noi include the preparations for war. For these the working men ot Christendom have paid du,ing the las g years $s2l 5Uo,000,000.

 This expense is annually growing heavier in the U. States, Britain, France. and many oth. CT ,uniries. A writer under the signature of A Working Man of America makes the fol- i lowing estimate;

 | There are at least 25oo, 900 able-bodied men l in the standing armies of Ch.istendom, all a. bic>b died men these, according to the sur- men are wanted merely to mow, plough and | sow and make stone wall or for any vulgar utilitarianpurpose Every common soldier is taken Hom the laboring class, we feel sure of I of that. The population embracing the la boring classes of any country will not average more than one able bodied man, according to the surgeons military standard, to every ten individuals. Then il would lake out all the sble-bod,ed men irnm 25.Oo0 QUO of the people to raise the standing army oi 2,3ooO,0o0 which has been kept up in Christendom ever since Ithe Battle of Waterloo. Now. instead of being mere machines for murder, suppose these 2 800, ,Oo0 able-bcdied men had been employed in some produetiye labor, even at the low rate of less than 25 cents day. the hard earned money paid " labnring men since 1915 in prepairing for war, amounts, including interest to nearly S3e 100000.

 The War appropriations of this Country since the present war with Mexico began. are. Last wear s3e.3ss ,s4ooa Thi, year 44.4s6.4 .4l6,9s

 .s-4 ts- ----- Tot.I -f Ss0, ,s73. .O59 %

 The appropriations for inc same objecisa' inc present sessi6i of Congress, will exceed rather than fall short oi fifty millions of dcll~ srs. ..,....

 The estimates say nothing of the value of inc labor withdrawn from useful pursuits, and ,he consequent loss to the country, nor state how many of our. people 'snd of the enelaS. a . aL =. ..r. fz ,aRa eSnammn1