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Is War Worth the Coat?
Even the Jananese are reported as
Shocked by the slaugbter of their onq
mies, .while mourning the slaughter of
heir fellows of the armtes of the mi
Icado. And If the Japanese aro not
shocked, the' world is shocked, and
the auestloh is forcing itself on the
liubllc is the gamo or war worth the
slaughter of scores of thousands of
men, oven though an open door to
trade "and commerce is at the other end
of tho shambles?
Tho one human life that is lost in
tho burning tenement or factory is
. heralded as worth more than the en
tire cost of the building. It is rightly
so heralded and estimated, for man
may erect buildings, but he cannot im
part life, but takes it. notwithstand
ing it is a gift from omnipotence.
With a charnel house extended from
Port Arthur to Mukden, with tens of
thousands of Jiuman oemgs shot to
death, blown 'to atoms, bayoneted,
crushed beyond the semmanco of hu
manity, wounded, bleeding, dying,
' consumed, with thirst on the battle
fiolds is the game of war worth tho
frightful and shocking cost? As a
rule, the world is sympathizing with
Japan", . looking upon her arm as the
arm to stay the march of an unscru
pulous a, patient, an insidious and n
t dangerous foe, which began her march
of conquest from the day Peter the
Great returned from his European so
journ and asqended the throne to give
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new life to Puis3ia. He wakened. her
to a senso of tdestiny, the means to be
considered and defeats not to be taken
as blocking "her path to ultimate con
quest o Asia and domination of Eu
rope. If tho conclusion or the war would
insure a lasting peace, if it would re
store to the inhabitants of the deso
lated countries a return even of their
worldly goods and place theni in the
position in which they Were before the
first blow was struck, the result might
justify the cost, for it would be a stay
ing of the march of a dangerous and
a restless nation, unscrupulous as to
means and remorseless in method. But
will universal peace rollow, or will
Russia meroly await a more favorable
opportunity to accomplish her designs?
Her history shows that she has never
given up a desired object, and there is
nothing in her present attitude to give
evidence of an intention to be satis
fied with anything butthe crushing
of Japan and an attainment' of uncon
troiled influence In China, and, in
fact, throughout the entire east. It is
for the nations of the world to contem
plate the frightful cost ot war, as il-'
lustrated on, Manchurian battlefields,
and if any steps can be taken, at leasft
to mitigate the cost, to take them
promptly and to enforce promptly.
Mankind has not gone back to the
state of the savage, and, surely, there
is yet remaining in foreign offices and
in cabinets that feeling for humanity
which, sooner or later, will bring about
the arbitrament of the judicial tribuf
nal in the settlement of questions
rather than the arbitrament of the
sword. There are . the enormous arid
almost irreparable losses to trade and
to commerce to be considered and tho
ruined homes. But the slaughter
wrought by the armies of Oyama and
Kuropatkin, and the horrors' attend
ant on the slaughter, ought to be suf
ficient to make for peace in every civ
ilized government of the globe. rCin
cinnati Tribune.
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Eligible to tho Presidency
To the Editor of the Sentinel:
Is a man born of American, parents
while thev were" visiting a foreign
country eligible to the. presidency of
the United States? SUBSCRIBER..
Milwaukee, Oct. 29.
The constitution of the United States
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UnitecL States at the time or its adop
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president, and that no person shall oe
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years and been fourteen years a resi
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the United States, or his temporary
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thoUKht Of th "".L r WM
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IIS0' decLa that "io chnu 5 20;
citizens of the United States that
be born beyond the seas or out om
imits of the United States" '
held as natural born citizens; mlS
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States' This is an authoritative state
ment of the meaning attached to the
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of tho constitution, a aimii0 i
appeared in subsequent naturalization
acts until that of 1902. in which the
modifying word "neural born" j3
omitted in speaking or citizens born
abroad.
Under the law of 1855 it is declared
that all persons born outside the lim
its and jurisdiction of the United
States whose fathers are at the time
of their birth. citizens thereof, are cit
izens of tho United States. Milwaukee
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