Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-08
War KILLS
OUR BEST MEN

Editor Evening Bulletin:-l
David starr Jordan, president of stan
ford University, wrote book which
he called The Blood of the Nation"
II contains moro real wisdom than any
other small book ! have seen. You
can read II all in an hour: and you
will then have something worth think
ing about as long as you live.
On July 4, 1910. Mr.. Jordan delivered
an address In Boston on war and
Manhood" In this address he used
some Of the material used in the book
mentioned, and added other material
This Boston address was published
In an English magazine that ought to
be read 10y every man and woman. Tho
name of this English magazine will
appear later. But first wish to use
some of the material in this address
as an introduction to the magazine. II
shall OFFER very free translation; the
whole may be found by those who wish
the whole
"a patriotic army Is tho flower Of
the nation. Those who perish are lost
to civilization, they and their blood for
ever - In every viclssitudc of n
race Of men, II is always those who are
shall he. Those traits of char
actcr, physical strength, agility, cour-
age. patriotism, which are desired in
the soldier. are lost to the race at the
death of the soldier
"OnCc, on the tanks Of the Appc-
mines. there dwelt race Of free men,
fair and strong, sclf-reliant and conf
dent 'Vri.' they called themselves;
ilEp nra all n |
this day. In each generation the hui
man harvest was good
Later, war came, and the Roman
war-call was, Send forth the best yc
breed 'Nir,' the real man. went forth
to battle: Homo the human being, re-
manned at home and became the father
of the new generation. The long wars
consumed the best men. Out of every
hundred thousand strong men, eighty
thousand were slain, either in wars or
by the mobs at home. out of every
hundred thousand weaklings, ninety
thousand were left to survive. The
sons of real men gave place to the sons
of solutions. stablc-boys, slaves and
camp followers. And from these lat
ter came the new generations.
THE finest Roman province was
Spain. What Of Spain in his
tory? What of Spain today? Three
hundred years ago a Spaniard wrote
This IL CASTLE She makes men, and
wastes them. Mines give silver and
forests give timber; but only Spain
gives Spaniards; and she may give so
many that she may he left dcsolatc.'
The evolution of n race Is always Sc
lcCtive. The survival of the 1T
test Is the cause OF race prog
ress, upward. The survival Of the un-
fit Is the beginning of degeneration.
I'm the WicrtZ, Gallery, in Brussels,
Is wonderful painting of Napoleon. II
represents the great marshal descend
ing to the land of shades. . Be-
fore him are represented. or limited at,
the three millions and more sent be-
fore him by his unbri1led ambition.
More than half of these were French
men. And behind the millions shown
or limited at are the millions on mil
lions of men who might have been and
are not-the huge, widening human
wedge of the possible descendants of
the mon who fell In battle.
Among those destroyed by NapO-
leon were tho elite of Europe.
Conscription followed both victory and
defeat; and victory and CONSUMPTION
dcbascd the human species.
And what Is true of Rome and Spain
and France Is true Of every nation
that has sent out to battle the best
they breed. while the Cowardly, the
cautious. the thrifty mediocrity fills up
tho ranks at home.
MIR. Arthur Knapp Of Yokohama OK
presses surprise, in his history of ia
pan. that after nearly two hundred
years of peace the Japanese should
show such military prowess as they
showed In their war with RUSSIA, But
this Is just what might have been oN-
pcCtcd. for during this two hundred
years of peace there was no slaughter
of the strong no sacrifice of the cour-
aGeous, while the idle, the weak, the