The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14
The MADNESS OF WAR.
COUNT ToLSToY ON THE STRUG-
GLE IN THE EAR EAST.

His Stirring Arrangement of the Men
Who Brought on the COnfict-Ineon-
sistcncy Between the Cars "Peaee
Policy. and the Present Attitude of
HIS Goyernment-Persons Whom
ToIstoy Holds Primarily Responsible
for the Breach Between Japan and
Russia.
Again war. Again suffering, ne
cessary to nobody. utterly uncalled
for; again fraud; again the universal
stupefaction and EQUALIZATION of men.
Men who are separated from each
other by thousands of miles, hundreds
of thousands of such men (on the one
hand-Budhists, whose law forbids the
killing. not only of men. but OF animals;
on the other hand-Ch Christians, profess
ing the law of brotherhood and love,
like wild beasts on land and on sea are
seeking out each other, in order to kill,
torture, and multilate each other in the
most cruel way. What can this be? Is
it dream or reality? Something is
taking place which should not, cannot
be; one longs to believe that it is a
dream and to awake from it.
But no, it is not dream; it is a
dreadful reality!
One could yet understand how poor,
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from his field and taught that
Buddhism consists not in compassion to
all that lives, but In sacrifices to idols,
and how similar poor, illiterate fell
low from the neighborhood Of Toula or
Mini Novgorod, who has been taught
that Christianity consists in worship
ping Christ. the Madonna, saints, and
their ikons-one could understand how
these unfortunate men, brought by the
violence and deceit of centuries to rec
ognize the greatest crime in the world
the murder of ones brethren-as vir-
tuous act, can commit dreadful deeds,
without regarding themselves as being
guilty in so doing.
But how can so-called enlightened
men preach war, support it, participate
in 1t, and, worst Of ALL without suffer-
ing, the dangers of war themselves, in
cite others to it, sending their unfor-
tunate, defrauded brothers to fight?
These so-called enlightened men cannot
possibly ignore, I do not say the Chris
tian law, If they recognize themselves
to be Christian, but all that has been
written, is being written, has and is be-
Ing said. about the cruelty. futility, and
senselessness Of war. They are regard
ed as enlightened men precisely because
they know all this The majority of
them have themselves written and
spoken about this. Not to mention The
Hague conference, which called forth
universal praise or all the books, PAM
phlets, newspaper articles, and speech
es demonstrating the possibility of the
solution of International misunder-
standings by International arbitration
no enlightened man can help knowing
that the universal competition in the
ornaments of states must inevitably
lead them to endless wars, or to a gem
eral bankruptcy, or else to both the one
and the other. They cannot but know
that besides the purposeless eX-
penditure of milliards of rubles, l. e., Of
human labor, on the preparations for
war, during the wars themselves mill
lions of the most energetic and vigor-
GUS men perish in that period of their
life which Is best for productive labor
during the past century wars have de-
stroyed 100000 mem. Enlightened
men cannot but know that occasions
for war are always such as are not
worth not only one human life, but not
-hundredth part of all that which is
spent upon wars Tin fighting for the
emancipation of the negroes much more
was spent than it would have cost to
redeem them from slavery.
Every one knows and cannot help
knowing that, above all, wars, calling
forth the lowest animal passions, de-
prave and brutalize men. Every one
knows the weakness of the arguments
in favor Of wars such as were brought
forward by De Maistre, Moltke, and
others, for they are all founded on the
sophism that In every human calamity
1t is possible to find an advantageous
element, or else upon the utterly arbi-
trary assertion that wars have always
existed, and, therefore, always must eX-
ist. as If the bad actions of men could
be justified by the advantages or the
usefulness they realize, or by the
consideration that they have been COM
nitted during a long period of time. All
so-cailed enlightened men know all this
Then suddenly war begins, and all this
is instantly forgotten, and the same
men. who but yesterday were proving
the cruelty, futility, the senselessess of
wars, now think, speak, and write only
about killing as many men as possible,
about running and destroying the
greatest possible amount of the pro-
auctions Of human labor, and about ex-
citing as much as possible the passion
of hatred in those peaceful,
harmless Industrious men who by their
labor feed, clothe, maintain these same
pseudo enlightened men, who compel
them to commit those dreadful deeds
contrary to their conscience, welfare or
faith.
Something is taking place incompre-
hensible and impossible in its
cruelty, falsehood, and stupidity. The
Russian Gear, the same man who ex-
horted all the nations in the cause of
peace, publicly announces that, not
withstanding all his efforts to maintain