War Against Rulers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 34.

War Against Rulers

By Editor

Secretary Hay has expressed it as the position of this government that coal, other fuel, and raw cotton are not to be considered as contraband of war when shipped by a neutral nation to a non-blockaded port of a belligerent, and points out that Russia herself, some years ago, took a very strong stand against including coal among contraband of war.

War Against Rulers.

A special correspondent of the Hearst papers, cables from Paris, under date of August 6, that "the conspiracy of Nihilists which culminated in the assassination of the Russian Minister von Plehve at St. Petersburg last week is suspected to have emanated from a gang of Russian and Finnish revolutionists with headquarters in this city and Geneva. Important discoveries are said to have been made showing that the revolutionists of all countries are uniting and working in unison in their merciless war against the crowned and uncrowned heads of states." An international anti-anarchist congress may be called soon, and it is hoped the United States will join in any international measures which may be adopted by European governments for the extermination of these plotters against government. It is also believed that the present active measures in Europe will drive many into America. Surely, as our Lord and His apostle predicted, lawlessness abounds, and "perilous times" have come.