| Show PETITION Pis 01 OF RUSSIAN WOMEN The petition poll lion of or women to 10 the Czarina CIRri nil asking n that lady lad to 10 Inter Intercede Intercede intercede cede In their behalf III In favor of ut nn on early cessation of ot the war Is n a re remarkable reo remarkable document U It Is as II follows 1 0 O 1 we believe bellee your our mothers heart feels nil all the tho horrors of DC war Will us nn WO sa c e do f eves Is II violated not only boycott beyond the tho frontiers but bul oven even In III Inthe Inthe the heart heRIt of at the tho fatherland We sea ceo In Inthe Inthe inthe the recent troubles the beginning of oC calamities that may crush i nil nII Rus sIa All the hoses bases of ot life Ufa are arc shaken nil the moral foundations are oro trembling Mothers Mother who have to bring up tho the young oung generation saddened by see lIeo seeing tag ing In that It Is III Impossible to 10 up children on tho the basis of ot truth love and ond duty when the tho social life lito of ot the coun court country try Ir does oes not nol rest thereon Our heat best forces forced are perishing Mothers whose hearts breaking cannot renal remain silent More Moie ole lives will bo be sacrificed because what Is II happening Is II not spas sites spasmodic motile but hut the tho of ot earlier calam calamities Ines Illes The Tho emperor can enn still nave Have Ilus Itus Hussin sin sla by hy his hIe puissant puls will Ho Ire our plead or the Iho emperor to listen lI to the voice oloa of ot the country It If the tho emperor leads loode the tho country In paths of ot groat nose nc e Its 1111 women worsen will help In tho the wort of at by hy guiding their broth era rs rA nod children Into Inlo tho the now way n and n II life of ot light The Tho Intelligence behind that petition would bo ho worthy worth of ot tho the most moat advanced women woman In any country It U does not reflect the tho Ignorance the tho servitude the helplessness supposed d to 10 bo be the tho common lot of ot anal especially the women It proven that Russia line has women in every cory respect the tho equals of ot their enlightened dieters slaters In more moro favored countries And whore where there thore are arl Intelligent women there thelo Is III bright hope for tor the thi future of oC the country Hut But the women are re mistaken when they Mume lImo that the Czarina must their feelings of oC and sorrow orrow In iii tho the present or orl en eneta II eta It Their brothers and bus hua halide hail had n II similar Illusion when they hoped that the this little father would listen to them with sympathy and they were wre awakened of ot that dreamt dream d only onh when the tho guns gun rang out their death knell and their blood blond was waa abed upon the tho ll Prospect The points f ot of view lt are NO HO different from the throne and amid from tram below bedew that thor run can lIn be hI little human sympathy between n that Oi e till thin different rent poal lIo I rh ot of 0 Spain Brain nl felt folt for tor her lilt subjects during her late Into war but It was she also who goaded her hor on notwithstanding their ad nil advice vice against that foolhardy undertaking lag ing Hits h knew that It would cost COlt u a number of ot lives but bu eha wile was perfectly willing to 10 have hirvo the tons eons of ot ten Ion thou thousand thousand sand Hp mothers mol hers sacrificed d In bat bal battle baltie tle tie If It thereby sirs elo ahI could have IlIve the th rove pave tovo of ot Cuba for only one aile son her own owls Mothers on u a I throne do not un understand the tho agony ony of ot mothers hum humbly hum humbly hi bly kneeling around It II And Aid nd wo fear tho the Russian women will yet yot have lavo to learn this The Tho Trench French women wor ern given n a 1 demonstration lImon of ot that feat fact be before tore fore the r revolution that brought liberty line Tho petition Is he exceedingly pathetic In all nil probability the war will soon OtIlle for tor the simple reason ronson that the tho Inability of oC the tiro army to cope copo with tho the Japanese o Is l again ln about to be ht demonstrated ns nl from the tho re ro reports ports front from the tho sent of ot war And such petitions may therefore b hs be i welcome as IU furnishing a motive for tor looking for tor peace lenco terms It must bo be earnestly earlle loped hoped that the tho prayer of ot the tho for tor pence peace will wilt ho he answered for tor tho the son san sanguinary struggle in Asia Is n a 1 spectacle of ot no credit to our advanced civilize Ion llon |
