| Show I lilt It is III Idle to say that t monetary standard of ot the tile nation is Ie Irrevocably fixed no so long Ion as III time the party which at t tho the thelast last lut election cast cut tt 6 per percent percent percent cent of oC the total vote ote refuses to put In InitA itt Its platform any an statement that the tho question Is settled says soya 1111 President lre Roosevelt Which Is la Interpreted to mean menn that the monetary standard wont stand Aland without hitching four II Portland OregonIan The wider lder world hears with n a shudder der doe that fierce fighting n ha has hall been re no resumed roo limed before Port Pert Arthur Tho Time strenuous effort the suffering tho the wholesale slaughter tint that are Implied In lii this simple announcement time uie be bo beyond b bold yond old computation practically beyond the utmost stretch of ot human Imagination Im tion The stress would seem sern to 10 be greater then than any nn nation could long en fill endure dure durf yet el after atler months month of ot It neither side II de ha has haa abated one jot of ot Its 1111 determination det or of ot Its IIi fury tUr In battle bottle Though the th end eneS may 1111 be near Its 1111 beginning Is s snot not yet yot ot in sight I I I I Springfield Republican Capt Copt Mahan writing In tho the middle ot of August Augut t ventured v to express lIs the opinion that there was more tight light In Port Fort Arthur Arlhur than IhAn the tho world supposed A month has pasted pAne since elites thou then and amid lint the nU urn itro holding out An 1 October Octher approaches one timing thing will halo haro to 10 bo ho conceded thich h Is III that we Wt all made our ridiculous In assuming six weeks ago 1110 that the end was 88 at lit hand hanel The sortie of ot the tho Russian nU fleet Aug AUf 10 tO tOwe wan we taken to moan mean that tho the harbor was Willi no n longer tenable and that the Japanese would soon foon rapture capture time the fort tort fortress reps ress The Japanese successfully lu ce main maim maintain lain tain a screen over their operations stud and little Is known knon concerning their as u assaults assaults except pt what whal has hag come tome front Chinese refugees and hen Gen O n fragmentary fr reports report Two months ago ngo It was that the he Japanese gen geu general general eral would lake loke the fortress by storm without counting the cost coat In the Iho lives live ot of othis othis his soldiers Now New York Evening Sun When the record of heroism Is made tip ip p the place of honor will be given to 10 oo women om n engaged In tn hospital work who refuse to quit Port lort Arthur Atthur under a rug of ot truce I and sund would rather face tact the tho starkest horrors horror that Imagination tan can paint than leave the side of the wound wounded ed d Prince reports report r tho the mar limit spirit of or the time garrison as all ble We The soldiers lI have supreme ron Ion In the leadership of ot Gen den nl el and are aro Inspired to deeds of ot heroic i A r 0 t I S J t ft i lIlor bir by b me OX t of at the tho generals wit wife IC WhO tho in lit thaMA thU 1 ef or the fled nd UI M II visits lie all id d 6 nurse nur e the time wound 1 ed a 1 with Wll with hor liar own Ii d floston Transcript Prince nA 1 III comments On 61 cot con CO belligerents in the tho far Cost that tho lh War has al AI already ready ly passed tho Iho stage When both hOlh aide ld s begin to III a violate tho the lied HAd Irow ling flag and to tight light with all the animosity of ot savages tho the world work haw has nn fun opportunity HW such as 1111 n Ihm hoer Door war nor tim tho sh content lell afforded Of or seeing anon mom Inn I what bo tho horror of ot n I 13 great conflict are aro rosily ro lly like New York l Moll Mall Tho b arc arp b l il ll at sit n t Port Arthur Mth r who hI gone n to tho the very limit of of o desperation de who butcher bUlcher their own on men amen If it they show MI the white nag flog to 10 whose whole hearts the sight of ot neither II tit white Hag flag nor the tho red rM ores conveys any Ally All appeal for tor mercy who live IIvo and fight day lIr In and day out Olt In tnt the lime pres coca of ot scenes which not 1101 even tho brutal brush of or w wets i he lie living Instead aI of 01 lend dead dell would dare dorp to ti II men mell at lit least IMI know how ho unspeakably horrible war can be I |
