The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-28

~, + thousands of such men Ton the one
sana-Ruddhists whose law forbids the
gh i '',,,ng not only of men. but of ami
hehals: on the other hand-Christians,
3 srafessing the law of brotherhood and
>, oyee like wild beasts on land and on
A. lea are seeking out each other, in order
q ho kill torture, and mutifate each other
a the most cruel way. What can TINS
1n6oe2 Is it a dream or reality? Some
. thing is taking place which should not,
eannot be: one longs to believe that II
lv IS dream, and to awake from it,
But no, it is not a dream; it is
Otllreadful reality!
The Czar.-The Russian Car, the
Same man who exhorted all the nations
Bin the cause of peace, publicly an
that, notwithstanding all ms
--efforts to maintain the peace so dear
TO his heart efforts which express
themselves in the seizing of other peo-
l<sples, lands and in the strengthening
Atof armies for the defense of these stol-
I zen Iands) he, owing to the attack of the
NSJapanese commands that the same snail
pbe done to the Japanese as they had
doing to the Russians e.,
that they should be slaughtered; and
IN announcing this call to murder he
mentions God. asking the divine bless
ing on the most dreadful crime in the
The japanese Emperor has pro-
y claimed the same thing in relation to
the Russians.
The Car Again.-This unfortunate.
e entangIed young man, recognized as
the leader of 100, 0O0. 900 of people, con-
finually deceived and compelled to con-
tradfct himself, confidently thanks and
blesses the troops whom he calls his
!. own for murder in defense of lands
which with yet less right he also calls
: his own.
The Causes of the War.-Those stu
pidities, robberies. and every kind of
denomination which were accomplished
in China and Korea by immoral ambi-
tious men now sitting peacefully in
their palaces and expecting new glory
and new advantage and profit. For
other peoples land, to which the Rus
slams have no right, which has been
q crimina1ly seized from it's legitimate
I owners, and which, in reality, is not
even necessary to the Russians-and
81 also for certain dark dealings by specu-
1ators, who in Korea wished to gain
money out of other peoples forests
many millions of money are spent.
e.. great part Of the labor of the
whole of the Russian people, while the
future generations of this people are
bound by debts, its best workmen are
withdrawn from labor, aud scores of
thousands OF its sons are mercilessly
doomed to DEATH
Europe and the yellow Peoples.-To
love. ones enemies-the Japanese and
Chinese, those yellow peoples toward
whom benighted men are now endeavor-
ing to excite our fiatred-to love them
means not to kill them for the pur-
pose of having the right of poisoning
them with opium. as did the English;
+ not to kill them in order to seize their
fand, as was done by the French the
Russians, and the Germans; not to
bury them alive in punishment for in
Turing 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.
Prom all sides one hears reports that
in one place three Reservists have
hanged themselves: in another spot
two more; in yet another about a wo-
man whose husband had been taken
F away bringing her children to the con-
7 scription committee-room and leaving
them there; while another hanged her
self in the yard of the military COM
n.ander. All are dissatisfied, gloomy,
exasperated. The words, For the
faith, the King, and the fatherland,'
the national anthem, and shouts of
Hurrah" no longer act upon people as
they once did.
A Reservist,s Letter.-Only one day Of
actual service has passed, and 1 have
already lived through an eternity Of
most desperate torments. From 8
o'clock in the morning till in the eve
ming We have been crowded and knock !
ed about to and fro in the barrack /,
yard, like herd of cattle, the comedy !
of medical examination was three times !
repeated, and those who had reported /
themselves liz did not receive even 10 /
minutes attention before they were |
4 marked satisfactory" When we, these |
1000 satisfactory individuals, were |
driven from the military commander 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 deceived people at last |
recover themselves and say: well, |
go you yourselves, you heartless Cars,
Mikados, Ministers, bishops, priests, |
Generals, editors, SPECTATORS or how
ever you may be called, go you your
selves under these shells and bullets, |
but We do not wish to go and we will /
not go.
Leave us in peace, to plough, and /
sow, and build. and also feed you, you |