The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14

them) that after all its efforts to es-
tablish peaceful relations lin reality,
after all its efforts TO deceive other
countries. the Russian government
has been compelled to have recourse to
of the question:, e.. to the murder Of
men. The same thing is written by
japanese diplomatists. Scientists, his
torians, and philosophers, on their side,
comparing the present with the past,
deduct from these comparisons pro-
found conclusions, and argue inter
mfnably about the laws of the move
ment Of nations. about the relation be-
tween the yellow and white longing to
the yellow race by Christians. and on
the basis of these deductions and argu-
ments justify the slaughter of those be-
longing to the yellow race by Chris
tians; while in the same way. the
Japanese scientists and philosophers
justify the slaughter of those of the
white race. Journalists, without con-
cealing their joy, try to Guido each
other, and, not hesitating at any false
hood, however impudent and transpar-
ent, prove in all possible ways that the
Russians only are right and strong and
good in every respect. and that all the
Japanese are wrong and weak and bad
in every respect and that all those are
bad who are inimical or may become
inimical towards the Rnssians-the
English, the Americans; and the same
is proved likewise by the Japanese and
their supporters in relation to the Rus
slams.
Not to mention the military, who in
the way Of their profession prepare for
murder, crowds of so-called enlightened
people, such as professors, social re-
formers, students, mobiles, merchants,
without being forced thereto by any
thing or any one, express the most Bit
ter and contemptuous feelings towards
the Japanese. the English, or the
Americans, towards whom but yester-
day they were well-disposed or in
different; while, without the least COM
pulsion, they express the most ab1ect,
seryile feelings towards the Car Ito
whom, to say the least they were COM
pletely Indifferent, assuring him Of
thei unlimited love and readiness to
sacrifice their lives In his interests.
This unfortunate, sentangled young
man, recognized as the leader of $780,
100000 of people, continually deceived
and compelled to contradict, confidently
thanks and blesses the troops whom he
calls his own for murder in defence Of
lands which with yet less right he also
calls his own. All present to each other
hideous ikons in which not only no one
Iamongst the educated believe, but
which unlearned peasants are begin
ming to abandon all bow down to the
ground before these ikons, kiss them
and pronounce pompous and deceitful
speeches in which no one really be-
lieves.
Wealthy people contribute insigni-
ficant portions Of their immorally ac-
quired riches for this cause of murder
or the organization of help in connec-
ton with the work of murder; while
the poor, from whom the Government
annually collects two milliards, deem it
necessary to do likewise, giving their
mites also. The Government incites
and encourages crowds of idlers, who
1 walk about the streets with the Cars
portrait, singing, shouting hurrah! and
who, under pretext Aof patriotism. are
licensed in all kinds of excess. All over
Russia, from the palace to the remotest
village, the pastors of churches, calling
/ themselves Christians appeal to that
+ God who has enjoined love to ones
enemies-to the God of Love Himself
to help the work Of the devil to furth-
er the slaughter Of men.
Stupefied by prayers, sermons, ex-
/ hortations, by professions, pictures, and
newspapers, the lannon's flesh, hun,
dreds of thousands of men, uniformly
dressed, carrying divers deadly,
! weapons. leaving their parents, wives,
children. with hearts of agony, but
with artificial sprightliness, 60 where
they, risking their own lives, will COM
NIT the most dreadful act of killing men
whom they do not know, and who have
i done them no harm. And they are
followed by doctors and nurses, who
somehow imagine that at home they
1 cannot serve simple peaceful, suffering
people. but can only serve those who
are engaged in slaughtering each other.
i Those who remain at home are glad
dened by news Of the murder Of men,
and when they learn that many Japa-
nese have been killed they thank some
/ one whom they call God
All this is not only regarded as the
manifestation Of elevated feeling, but
l those who refrain from such manifes-
tations. if they endeavor to disabuse
men, are deemed traitors and betrayers,
and are in danger Of being abused and
beaten .by brutalized crowd which, in
defence Of its insanity and cruelty, can
i possess no other weapon than brute
force.
1t is as If there had never existed
/ either Voltaire, or Montaigne, or
Pascal. or Swift, or Kant, or Spinoza,
/ or hundreds of other writer's who have
exposed, with great force, the madness
and futility of war, and have described
its cruelty, immortality, and savagery;
| and. above all, it is as If there had
never existed Jesus and his teaching of
human brotherhood and love Of God
1 and OF men.
One recalls all this to mind and looks
around on what is now taking place,
i and one experiences horror less at the
denominations of war than at that which
/ is the most horrible of all horrors-the
/ consciousness Of the impotency Of hui
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