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346 of the individual, "burning money." Finding money for the provision of armaments, which may never be used, is often decried as hideous waste, though there is something tangible to show for the expenditure, what then can be said in defence of a loss to every man, woman and child in the United States of over two dollars per annum, with a visible result only of charred ruins and possible suffering?