The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-13
Lacrosse, Wis.
1872 on both phones.

the English; not to kill them in order
to seize their land, as was done by
the French, the Russians, and the
Germans; not to bury them alive in
punishment for injuring roads, not to
tie them together by their hair, not to
drown them in their River Amur, as
did the Russians.
The Temper Of the Russian Masses.
. From all sides one hears reports
that in one place three Reservists
have hanged themselves; in another
spot two more; in yet another about
"a woman whose husband had been
taken away bringing her children to
and leaving them there; while an
other hanged herself in the yard of
the military commander. All are dis
satisfied, gloomy, exasperated. The
words, For the faith, the king and
the fatherland," the national anthem,
upon people, as they once did.
A Reservist's Letter.
Only one day Of actual service has
passed, and I have already lived thru
an eternity of most desperate tor
ments. From O'Clock in the morn
ing till 9 in the evening we have been
crowded and knocked about to and
| fro in the barrack yard, like herd Of
cattle, the comedy of medical exami-
/
those who had reported themselves Ill
did not receive even ten minutes at
tention before they were marked
satisfactory When we, these
two thousand satisfactory Individuals,
were driven from the military COM
mander to the barracks, along the
road spread out for almost a verst
stood a crowd of relatives, mothers.
and wives with infants in arms, and
| if you had only heard and seen how
they clasped their fathers, husbands,
sons, and hanging round their necks
walled hopelessly!
A Cry to the People.
| When will this cease, and the de-
ceived people at last recover them
selves and say: well, go you your
selves, you heartless czars, mikados
ministers, bishops, priests, generals
| editor, SPECTATORS or however you
may be called, go you yourselves under
/ these shells and bullets, but we do not
! wish to go and we will not go.
/ Leave us in peace to pillow and
1 SOW and build, and also feed you, you
/ sluggards."
4 There exist true heroes, not those
who are now being feted because
having wished to kill others, they were
/ not killed themselves, but true heroes
/ who are now confined in prisons an6
1 in the province Of Yakoutsk for hav-
/ ing categorically refused to enter the
4 ranks Of murderers, and who have
/ preferred rnartyrdom to this depart.
ure from the law Of Jesus. There are
| also such as he who writes to me, who
1 go, but who will not kill.
Modern Industrialism.
Bereft of religion, men possessing
4 enormous powers over the forces OF
4 nature are like children to whom
powder or explosive gas has beer
given as plaything. Considering this
power which men of our time possess
| and the way they use it, one feels thai
/ considering the degree of their mora
development men have no right, no
1 only to the use Of railways, steam
electricity, telephones, photography
/ wireless telegraphs, but even to the
simple art of manufacturing iron ani
steel, as all these improvements ant
i arts they use only for the satisfaction
i Of their lusts, for amusement, dissipa
4 ton, and the destruction of eaci
: other.
4 At the moment the head of the stat,
will cease to direct war, the soldie
to fight, the minister to prepare mean
for war, the journalist to incite there
to-then, without any new institutions
adaptations, balance Of power, tribun
ais, there will Of itself be destroyed
2 that hopeless position In which mel
have placed themselves, not only II
relation war, but also to all othe
calamities which they themselves in
a f1ict~ upon themselves.
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