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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION EDITORIALS ' By C. N. LUND o Five Million Dead and Wounded. For What? Five million soldiers ore said to lie dead and wounded in the dust of Russia as a result of the cruel and savage war now raging. One half ol t hem perished because of the mad ambi tions of one man who wanted more land and oil and wheat and minerals. The other half died in defense of home and country and went down as courageously and heroically as men have ever gone down for a cause. All of the boys who have died in the shambles of this satanic war have gone down as martyrs to the New Day and the New Age that waits behind the dawn. Their blood will become the seed of new flowers of freedom, new and mor widely diffused liberty, new hopes and higher aspirations. I The decaying bodies of all these dead will fertilize humanitys soil for a growth and harvest of peace and good wiil that shall make that New Earth which the great prophet saw from his cave on the Isle of Patmos. |