The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-11

I erlng the corpses. Soon on yhe plan
below rose the smoke OF fires. wher
g the Japanese dead were burned. w
{ passed through grisly sights from hill
> to hill, hearing always the thunder
I ing OF guns beyond"
The Chicago Record-Herald com
, menting on the horrible picture above
says.
Every such description Is terrible
Indictment of humanity. though the
most spirited Of them is necessarily
inadequate Actual physical contact
Is required TO realize what the scene
means to the nerves and TO the senses
But there is perhaps enough OF real
| ism in the reference TO the whlrring
millions of flies. We're the men ami
mails such strewing of horribly dis
! figured corpsos in the soil oozing with
blood would be inconceivably more re-
voting than the shameless But here
were thousands OF human beings man
gled and dismembered, the noblest
and the meanest mutilated almost
puAt dit dliht q
proach to our common humanity.
1T is true also that they illustrate
the power OF human sacrifice. that the
bloody field tells OF human skill and
bravery. So long as wars are waged
that story will be told. and 1t will con.
tain much TO admire. but fortunately
the world is putting more and more
emphasis on the hideous aspects Of
such scenes which harrow the feelings
aud affront the reason at the same
time. That they are in any sense nee
essary to keep true manliness alive IS
so appallingly false that the supreme
effort of the nations should be to pre-
vent them.
Record Herald is supporting for the
presidency OF the United States, a
man who would do as much or more
10 prevent the abolition OF war than
any monarshial ruler in the world;
man who. by his own words, despises
the piping times Of peace, and whose
bloody nature is only satisfied when
the red fields Of battle,
a man who, TO quote a recent speech |
of Edwin NJ. Shepard, Of New York, |
has declared his contempt for that |
mock humanitarianism which would |
prevent the great libertyloying na
tions OF the world from going TO war
who despises, as he himself has told |
us, the 'cloistared virtue which dare |
not go down into the hurly-burly |
where the men of might contend
who, in hundred speeches has talked /
Of the craven and the 'weakling' and |
the coward who babbles of peace,
who has preached the Just man arm
ed, as his dearest gospel, who would
have a great army, although, as he
said, we do not. need II in the least
for police purposes at home, but be
cause we need to use it abroad: who
three years before our marauding ven
ture at Panama, declared that we
must build the isthmian canal ana
must grasp the points of vantage
meaning that we must violate the ter
ritory OF another nation; who has
talked in season and out of season OF
the cant about liberty and the con
sent of the governed, who, speaking
as the chief magistrate of republic
Of law and order and peace. which in
its men and resources is the most
powerful of nations. declared that its
maxim should be Speak softly and
carry a big stick and who has of late
n plain terms threatened our neigh
Dors at the South that unless--in ther
Dut with others, for whom we are in
40 way called upon to act-they act
ID with decency in industrial and po-
itical matters, unless they kept order
md paid their obligation unless they
governed themselves we'll and were
and orderly they nigh,
expect our forcible intervention.
If the Record-Herald would be con
iistent, It should lend its influence
md energies toward retiring from the
important position he occupies this
character who would have
he United States go stalking forth
lmong the nations with chip on IT.
carrying a Big Stick with
which to knock down and drag out.
lutting into disputes and brolls which
10 not concern us. regardless of all
aw and in contempt Of the govern
nenta constitution and all It's tradl-
ions
But the Record Herald will not do
his. IL will continue to support
Theodore Roosevelt because 1t is a
Republican paper ami he Is a Repub-
lean nominee. though in its own mind
{ is doubtless convinced that he T.
unfit for the presidency. The
record Herald Is like Senator fIoar.
If Massachusetts. 1t talks one way
md votes another.
The Republicans admltidhe incrcas
ID cost Of running the government
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