Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-29

Prelude-Again war. Again suffer
Ing, necessary to nobody, utterly I'M
called for; again fraud, again the mi
versal stupefaction and EQUALIZATION
Of men
Men who are separated from each
ether by thousands of miles, hundreds
OF thousands of such men ton the
one hand-Buddhists whose law for
bids the killing, not only of men, but
CT animals; on the other hand-Chris-
tlans, protesting the law of brother
hood and lovel like wild beasts on
land and on sea are seeking out each
other, in order to kill, torture and
mutilate each other in the most cruel
way. What can this be? Is it
dream or reality? Something is TAX
ing place which should not, cannot
be; one longs to believe that it is
dream and to wake from it.
But no. it is not a dream. it is a
dreadful reality!
/ The Russian czar, the same man
who exhorted all the nations in the
cause of peace, publicly announces
that, notwithstanding all his efforts
to maintain the peace so dear to his
heart efforts which express them
selves in the Selling of other peoples
lands and in the Strengthening of ar
mics for the defense of these stolen
lands), he, owing to the attack of the
Japanese, commands that the same
shall be done to the japanese as they
had commenced doing to the Rus
sinans-i. e., that they should be
slaughtered and in announcing this
call to murder he mentions God, ask
ing the divine blessing on the most
dreadful crime in the world. The
Japanese emperor has claimed the
same thing in relation to the Rus
slams
This unfortunate, entangled young
man, recognized as the leader of $780,
100000 Of people, continually de-
ceived and compelled to contradict
himself, confidently thanks and bless
es the troops whom he calls his own
for murder in defense of lands which
with yet less right he also calls his
own.
Those stupidities, robberies, and
every kind of abomination which were
accomplished in China and Korea by
immoral ambitious men now sitting
peacefully in their palaces and ex-
pecting new glory and new advantage
and profit. For other peoples land,
tc which the Russians have no right,
which has been criminally seized
from its legitimate owners, and which,
in reality, is not even necessary to the
Russians-and also for certain dark
dealings by spectators, 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 Rus
sian people, while the future genera
tions of this people are bound by
debts, its best workmen are with
drawn from labor, and scores of
thousands Of its sons are mercilessly
doomed to death.
To love ones enemies-the Japa-
nese and Chinese, those yellow peo-
pies toward whom benighted men are
now endeavoring to excite our hatred
to love them means not to kill them
for the purpose Of having the right of
poisoning them with opium, as did
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
drown them in their River Amur, as
did the Russians.
From all sides one hears reports
that in one place three Reservists
have hanged themselves; in another
spot two more; in yet another about
woman whose husband had been
taken away bringing her children to
the conscription committee-room
and leaving them there: while an
ether hanged herself in the yard of
the military commander. All are dis
4 I10Gd. gloomy. exasperated. The
SEor the faith. the king and
~ the national anthem,
Hurrah" no longer act
os they once did.
f actual service has
we already lived
most desperate
ok in the morn
these
lvfduals.
~ com
long the
verst
mothers,
rms, and
seen how
husbands,