The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
BITTER ATTACK ON RUSSIA.
RED CROSS RULES IGNORED, SAYS
BARON KANEKO.

Talks At . Meeting 70 Raise Funds for
soldiers widows and Orphans-Cites
Example OF III Treatment % JaDs
Prisoners Dragged Through streets,
A meeting TO raise funds for the aid OF
the widows and orphans Of japanese soldiers
was held on Friday morning At the home OF
Mrs. Mason Davidge, 90 Washington Square
South Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Baron
Kentaro Kaneko were the chief speaker.
Baron Kaneko. after thanking those at
the meeting for their interest In the work
and telling Of the need for such fund,
went on:
The tie Is very close between our En-
peror and bis people. Last winter the
Emperor could not rest for thinking Of all
that his soldiers we're suffering in the field.
He sent his Grand Master TO visit them in
Corea and Manchuria, to visit every tent
and every hospital and report TO him their
condition.
The Grand Master came back and told
his Majesty Of the awful suhering caused
by the cold Of men sleeping on the frozen
ground when the Thermometer marked 200
and 80 below zero, Of wounded men swept
TO their death by the terrific billiards
tearing down across the icy plains Of
Manchuria-and the Emperor, torn TO the
heart by the thought Of their suffering,
said
Let not a single fire be lighted again
in the palace till the war be over. We
will not be warm till the men are warm, too.
DO you wonder that we worship our
Emperor? What do you think his Majesty
felt-what do you think we all felt when
the Russians took 200 of our wounded,
tied their hands and dragged them with
ropes through the streets Of Mukden from
in the morning till at night, bowling
derision in their brave faces, inviting the
Chinese populace TO heap the most abomin-
able insults upon the men who had been
taken prisoners because they we're wounded
for no Japanese ever suTTenders and
none are captured while they have blood
and breath 10 fight.
You call the Russians Christians. In
this war Russia has violated every principle
Of humanity, broken every article Of the
Geneva convention, outraged every maxim
Of decency.
Japan, whom Russia calls pagan, has
fought, from beginning TO end, on what
should be Christian lines. Every rule Of
humanity, every detail enjoined by the
Red Cross Society, has been sorupulously,
deicatey carried out. We have 10000
Russian prisoners in Japan. These men
are we'll housed, warmly clothed, fed with
fresh meat, fresh vegetables, surrounded
with kindness and respect. Their parents,
their wives and families are allowed to
come and live near them, and every facility
is afforded TO make life possible in our
country for this horde Of strangers and
foes.
I'VE have lost. alas close upon hundred
thousand lives in this most holy war-we
are prepared TO sacrifice not only hundred
thousand more, but ten hundred thousand
and another million after that, to sustain
and vindioate the rights Of man.
only when those rights are aclcnowl-
edged-freedom Of religion. freedom OF
life, humane government, the justice that
sets the poorest on an equality with the
richest in the inviolable security Of life
and property and home-then, and only
then, can we say Man is truly made in the
image Of Him who made him.