Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-03

E0y3 who were DTou INT III this Lie
wits pa "a and suffering. rezred with
patient tell and tende- Kindness, who
&c iGyeI and honcTe1, men who
gave e the wcrId their talents AMI
;he fruits of their toll and Intelligence
lic tran pled in mire n ade By their
afsn bleed. bruised and tern, masses
Of flesh and bone, which, decay ing. & II
he land wth siscasc an Pest;tene :.
IRE an tho: =, .c,7- -, - R;cd. Il -,
meTbesed soldiers shrieking with.
pain groyei and struggle in the filth
Of the trench. Many Of the wounded
lie Tor days upon the battlefield sur
rounded by the most terrible condi-
tons. without medical attendance
food or water In the Russian and
japanese war Instances were foune
where the wounded had ate of the
flesh of the dead that lay near them
Men are torn with shell and sharpnal,
blown up with guncotton and dyna-
mite. burned with liquid fire, asphyxi-
ated with poisonous gases, cut and
slashed with sabres, stabbed with bay
onets. dubbed with rifle butts, entang-
led in barbed wire, cast into spiked
pits in the name of honor That is
war, but those who fight are less to
be censured than these who seek profit
by war. The soldier fights for sup
posed principle, he fights because he
thinks he is right, that his nations
honor is at stake or his personal lib
erty is threatened, or. as in the case
with vast number of those now fight
ing in Europe, they fight for no other
reason than because they have to- But
1t is different with. those cursed hye-
mas of society. those who, secure be-
hind the walls of neutrality, make,
manufacture or sell the powder, shot
and shell to be used in the devils most
dannable scheme of torturing the hui
man race-war, and for no other rea-
son than private gain. They would
sacrifice all humanity at the altar of
the Golden Idol. The Almighty Doll
lar is more important to them than
human life and happiness. While Eu-
rope is being filled with MANNED ana
crippled humans, while thousands of
wives are being made destitute wild
ows and thousands of children are be-
ing robbed of their fathers, while the
land is being filled with disease, desc
lation and Indebtedness, while its
towns and great cities are being she'll
ed to absolute ruin, these idolaters,
secure from all danger of flying lead
and steel, wax fat. provided with all
the comfrris and Injuries eff life, and
their cSffers bulge with olcod Tcney.
The mechanic or the day laborer is
no better even though he accepts en-
ployment at such q heinous work
through the necessity of gaining live
lihood for could he or his family suf-
fer more through righteous idleness
by his refusing to work at such a
task than his brother workers and
their families in Europe are suffering
as a result of his handicraft?
1t is argued that to stop, the sale OF
munitions of war now would be an un-
neutral act That 1t woHld be equiva-
lent to abandoning "a lawful and le-
Ultimate traffic in order to help end
the war in fayer of Germany. Then,
If that is the case, is not the con-
tinued manufacture and sale, of war
materials abiding the war in favor OF
the Allies? What about neutrality? 1t
is also argued that since the United
States is not armed to the teeth 1t
might be vitality necessary for us, some
day, to have tf1e right to purchase
military supplies from foreign manu-
facturers and that consequently we
could i'll afford to have that right Dir
minished Be that as it may this fact
is as self-evident as the mole on teach
er's nose, that If the profit from the
sale S0f munitions of war should fall
to zero tomorrow their manufacture
and sale would stop that same instant.
Tell me, you who uphold the NUM-
tion-of- wholesale-murder trafflckerS,
would they, through the necessity OF
preserving our neutrality, or to insure
our right to purchase shot and shell
abroad, be compelled to make and sell
war materials to belligerents at a
less?
Consider conditions in Europe ev-
erybody knows it is the most dread
full. most insane, most brutal war in
human history and yet in this country,
the boasted land of the free, we rejoice
because it is making business good for
u.s. We dance about the stock ticker
eagerly watching results. We anxious
1y feel the pulse of Wall Street while
that body keenly watches the war or
ders. The New York World declared
while ago: Prosperity is cutting
loose" and with Gladdened hearts we
see confidence ever strengthening,
driving the ''specter of calamity" to
the four winds With quickening
breath we read in the trade journals
CT the improvements in the various
lines of trade Hurrah! we're going
to have good times on the dead bodies
in Europe. To those whose hearts
are right the fact is deplorable that
nations which claim TO be civilized