Dedicated to War | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 14, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 49.

Dedicated to War.

The war prospect in the Orient is thus epitomized by the Springfield, Mass., Republican:

Whatever hopes the Japanese originally had of a short war, they are now preparing for a long and exhausting struggle. Count Okuma is free to tell his countrymen that they must expect to spend at least $1,000,000,000. The taxes will be piled on the people; internal improvements will be stopped; even popular education is to be curtailed. In Russia, the same procedure will take place, causing even greater distress to the nation. And this is glorious war.

Thus we see the entire energies and resources of two great empires dedicated to the destruction of human life. And this is popularly recognized as patriotism.”