The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-19
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1904
a Disgrace to Christendor1.

Former Senator George L. Edmunos
q onaf1e a stirring address in Philnuelpn'a
on Sunday last in the interest CT ~
ternational peace, in the course Oh WIZ
fbe raid his respects to the savage waf
now progressing in the far East W le li
an individual sees his noighbors iiGht-
&Itns.' lie said "he goes to them ana
.! makes them stop. They do not Ike H.
q, ~ course else why should they ilght
nhe Individual has done his God.nidocn
duty. But when Christian nations see
:pther nations fighting, the example or
the individual is not followed.
Mr. Edrunds took the ground that as
HE peore we're masters they should
s. govern their rulers and should make them
Il interfere and command peace when two
r,ations took each other BY the throat
Z In other words. he thinks that 1t is now
the duty Of tho Christian nations Of the
world to intervene In the war which Is
& now progressing between japan and Rus
& sa and put stop to tho slaughter
Mr.. Edn,unds is right. The reports
(which come TO US day after day from
Manchurla are reports of horror Thou
sands upon thousands OF human beings
4 are being hutchered every day, and IT
appears that the bloody struggle will go
on until either one side or the other shall
have conquered or else until every drop
OF blood has been poured out as liioa-
ton to savagcry.
~ .i.t - {r,,t,
between Russia ard Japan with which
outsiders have nothing TO do. THIS may
4bc tie law. Of diplomacy, but there is
higher law. AS aIr. Edmunds has so
well said there is no difference between
The duty OF individuals and of nations.
for after AL u nation is nothing more
than an organization of individuals. We
cannot have two standards. We can
not have one code Of morals for indi-
vlduals and another code of morals for
cannot be nationally right, and Ill the
arguments of diplomacy. couchcd as may
be in fine language, cannot alter the fact.
IF a crowd of men should stand by and
see two human beings engage In duel
with knives and slash and cut each other
Entil one or the other or both arc killed
4 and never attempt to separate them ana
5preserve The peace they would be de-
Inounced tho world over as towards or
sbrutes. But ~ duel VERY much worse
{ than a duel bcrween individuals is now
progressing in Manchuria. Instead of one
.life or two lives being involved the lives
-of thousands and thousands are being
nHaily sacrificed. yet the Christian ma
lions of the arth are standing by and not
seven offering their good offices in the in
aterest of peace. They are going about
Hlleir affairs as though the smile of
+ heaven were ibrooding over Manchurla
*l1nstcad OF the troWn of the grim mon
lister OF war; az though the streams were
/ lTipplng ana sparkling i'll purity, instead
i4of being stained with human blood; as
Though THE hills We're crowned with the
AgorgeSus foliage Of peaceful autumn in
tEtead OF being mounted with death-deal-
Ing guns.
! II is spectacle TO arouse every man
t''' q sftNih VI III MN, NlDie
: especially is IT spectacle 10 arouse
4 Those who claim TO be enlisted in Tic
Z snlniy of the Prince of Peace. II a
/ crowd Of spectators standing by and Sec
( Gis duel between two men without
q offering 70 interfere are amcnable to the
{; charge of cowardicc or brutality, why
{ may not the same charge with equal jus
& sice be made against the so-calcd Chris
q tan nations WHO stand EMBODIED In then
\ diplomatic garments. picture of in
Y difference ana imbecility, willie this
bloody tragedy in the far East is going
on from day 10 day
E Let Us have peace.
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