Excerpt from The Burden of Armaments: A Plea for Retrenchment In 1884 another change occurred in public opinion, and since then expenditure has been increasing year by year at a constantly accelerating pace. In view of this it is proposed to deal with the subject in the spirit of Cobden, and to carry his narrative and arguments down to the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.