Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-07-25
OLYMPIA
GIRLS WIN H0N0RS
IN HAWAII CONTEST
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many strong, healthy men would mean
to France! We can never realize the
dream of the eugenists, or hope to ele-
vate the race SO long as we allow the
wholesale slaughter of the earths best.
BY so doing, we are only undermining
our civilization.
Right here is where we are apt not
to consider this matter III the light of
it's real seriousness. When we look
about us and perceive no great scarcity
of men in the world, we are likely to
scott at the alarm aroused by some
over the loss of life in war But, I'M
fortunately, the gravity of the situa-
ton is not exaggerated as the Stats
tics, which we have staring us in the
face, confirm. The figures of our Civil
war make one shudder. The total dead
on the Union side numbered between
100000 and 100000. The Confeder-
ates sacrificed almost as many. Get
tysburg, the greatest" battle, claimed
1868 from both sides; and Antietam,
the bloodiest field, lay covered with
over $4,000 dead and wounded, while
the broad surface of the Potomac was
blue with floating bodies. Though this
was Northern victory, the Union
losses were greater than the Confed-
eration's. The pitifulness of such a
victory calls to mind Robert Southey's
Battle of Blen-Heim" when old Kas-
per tells of the fight.
They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
Pint thi orc lilo fhot x,n,, Epou, must no
After famous victory"
At the battle of Nordingen in Eu.
ropes Thirty Years War;" the Swedes
lost 1900 against the enemy's 1000.
In the French defeat at Malphaquet,
the Allies lost 10000; the French 49,
900. The wars of the French revolu-
ton and First Empire cost France be-
100000 and 100000 men. Napo-
Icons grand army entered Russia 400,-
900 strong; scarcely 10000 re-crossed
the Niemen. Prince Eugene crossed
the same river with $4,000 and re-
turned IA days later with a paltry 1,
200. After Wellington and Butcher
met in the Waterloo campaign, $4,000
killed and wounded lay on an area of
about three square miles. Here, in
deed, was sea Of sacrificial blood!
Thus, we could 60 on citing war after
war, battle after battle, in which men
peasants, merchants, statesmen, gen.
iuses-herOes all, were moved down
like beasts in gigantic slaughter pen.
In too many instances we find this
sacred young life being sacrificed reck-
lessly, wantonly. Too often in history,
the great war captains have shown
practically no respect for life. Napo-
leon, chief among warriors, regarded
the men Of his army as mere machines
keyed to do his will. He counted his
dead as he totaled his loss of ammuni-
ton. A great loss to him was regret
table, not because so many Individual
lives had been sacrificed, but simply
because they reduced his ranks by
just so many He was credited with
having killed in the bloody IL years
from 1904 to 1915, 100000 French
men, and about 100000 outlanders
His cold calculating disregard for life
even aroused indignation among his
associates. Once, Metternich, desper-
ate in his desire to prevent an inevita-
BILE slaughter, attempted to persuade
Napoleon not to take his army Of
"adolescents" against the Russians and
met with the egotistical reply, you
are no soldier and you do not know
what passes in q soldiers soul!
grew up on battleflelds, and man like
me doesn't give q tinker's damn for
the life Of million"
Often the veyr cruelty of military tao
tics themselves, demands this horrible
recklessness in regard to human life.
For instance, during the second day Of
the battle of Charlottesville, Gen.
Pleasanton was trying to get % guns
into a vital position as Stonewall Jack
son made sudden advance. Time had
to be bought. There was only ON thing
to be bought. There was only one thing
onton did. As q result Maj. Peter