Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early Economic Effects of the European War Upon Canada
For the cost of the war is to be reckoned not merely in destruction of wealth. It is draining the working power of the world, and is adding to the number less capable of taking care of themselves. It has increased the army of the maimed, the halt, the blind and the dependents, and has imposed upon all the rest of us the task of caring for them as a sacred duty and a debt of gratitude for the sacrifice which they have made for us. But the cost and the sacrifice we cannot stop to count now, for we have entered the war and must do our part to bring it to a successful conclusion. The realization of the staggering burden of the cost of the war will not prevent any one of the nations at war from continuing to do its part; but a study of this cost in all its bearings may have a sobering effect in years to come when peoples and rulers may perhaps contemplate war again. For that reason among the preliminary studies, which it is our purpose to publish, will be one or two on the cost of the war and its financial management.
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