The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-13

the war by driving VI the imperial
ISIS, horse and foot. Ii was said that
The imperialists had captured m Of
iicer of the republican army and aft
er %torturing him, had skinned him
alive. We Ut the occident sympath-
lie with the rcvolutionarics because
they represent more nearly the ideas
of the western progress. The efforts
these rcv%olutionarics are making to
cut out the absurd customs and be-
liefs of the people and to build upon
TIL" ruins of the corrupt and rotten
conglomcratc nation Il new one, APP
pcalS TO our modern development. IL
is, therefore. cas- to ovcrjudgc the
acts of the other side.
But the impcrialists belong to the
Manchu civilization. Il civilization that
MAS barbarian two thousand years
ago and has changed little since. Tho
Manchu mind is of tho dark ages of
Asia. The civilization they have is
founded on conditions that are in
t"lerahlc. 1t is based on caste II
caste is ron clad. The upper caste
have lived in the most orgcous Lux
ury Will" the lower caste have died
of starvation and pestilcncc like
worthless animals. Tho civilized
world has been called upon nearly
every year to contribute funds To feed
the starving hords. And while vul-
lures lowered above the cmaciatcd
bodies of the masses. the ruling class
IS have lived in splcndor. Is it amy
wonder that men like President Sun
ana pr. WI are seeking to drive II
those who are responsible for these
conditions and establish a nation that
will ondoaNor /" give all II better
chance ut least?
Wal is barharous at best. IL is
impossible. except for those who have
Witnessed it. to comprehend the hor-
ror If II field nf battle with its piles
OF shattered rorpscs and manglcd liv-
ing. We have sought to cnolliatc
the horrors to some extent by pre-
scribins the kind of bullet that shall
lac used. We have made the hospital
flag an emblem of neutrality, and the
hutchering of the wounded is no long
CT tolerated. True. these things are
along the line of the Irishman's phil
"s"phN who WAS skinninS the ell, and
as IT WriSSlcd and snuirlned. the Irish
man addressed it with the words, "if
We would hould sthill it wod not
hurt 5" much" But ever with the
occidental war spirit af1amc. the bar
b~arlticS inflicted on the captured TO-
N~"'uti"ilary officer by the imperialists
would become a world incident. Whom
ii WAS reported that the Italians were
killing women and children in the
present war with Turkey the nations
spoke as one and demanded that it
stop. Tho explanation OF Italy that
those women and children Killed were
actual participants and were fighting
III The ranks with their husbands and
ldI1"rS alone saved that nation from
accounting to IN world for it's at-
fionS. Those things We're tho results
"f war. They might llavc beer killed
as III" accidents of war. Non-com-
hhtants arc often victims. But in the
Chimes" case. nothing of the kind is
true. The victim was Il captive and
under the rules of war was entitled
to h best treatment his captors
could afford. The principle of cam
turing the enemN is To stop him from
lisht!nC. Hut with the prisoner in
Their power the inpcrialists commit
ted 4 crime worse than would have
been committed by the lowest grade
of harharians.
IT is TIM" to stop the practice ever
II IL ends h Manrhu rule and inter
i"r"S with the ambitions of Russia
ana England. II is time to set civiliz-
a'I"n above commercial ENTERPRISE.