Category: History - Modern (1750+)
ready “for Jesus’ sake” (and a salary) to glorify war and scream to the “God of Battles” (also the “God of Peace”) for victory; ready to baptize wholesale murder and flatter the blood-stained conquerors; ready to whine and mumble over the shell-torn corpses of the victims and...
Imagine J. P. Morgan, rifle in hand, doing picket duty on a dark, sleet-drizzling night. Imagine J. Ogden Armour, George Gould and Thomas F. Ryan with heavy shovels digging tren...
10. CHAPTER SEVEN.Following are “Topics for Discussion,” commended especially to working men as themes for conversations by fathers (and mothers) and sons, daughters also. It is hoped, too, that...
11. CHAPTER EIGHT.The aristocrat’s wife is not worrying about whose children are to be destroyed in the next war. She knows already that her sons will not be destroyed in battle; her sons will no...
7. CHAPTER FIVE.Ah, so you are on your way to the recruiting station, are you? Well, there will be plenty of time to enlist tomorrow, and there are also seven days of next week that have not be...
13. CHAPTER TEN.“No people will toil and sweat to keep a class in idleness unless _cajoled_ or _compelled_ to do so.... There are various devices by means of which a body of persons may sink th...
12. CHAPTER NINE.THE CASH COST OF MILITARISM IN THE WORLD FOR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE A 150–PAGE BOOK AGAINST WAR FOR EVERY PERSON ON EARTH WHO CAN READ.[285] THREE SERM...
6. CHAPTER FOUR.Human blood, human life, under the present industrial form of society, is so cheap that even a sweet child’s life, as a _wage_-earner, in the factory, can be bought for a few ce...
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN.“We have repeatedly pointed out that every social institution weaves a protecting integument of glossy idealization about itself like a colony of caterpillars in an apple-tree....
16. CHAPTER TWELVE.(1) Invite your pastor to preach against war, urge him to do so, and render him any assistance you can in the way of literature on war. Help get out an audience to hear the serm...
4. CHAPTER THREE.The situation, the “lay of the land,” must be clearly seen by every member of the working class who wishes to help himself and his fellow workers avoid the vicious sacrifice of...
14. Chapter Six, paragraph headed: “A Special Warning to the Working ClassThe much plundered working people are beginning to think. Thought is revolutionary. A thought is a file, a keen saw, with which a soul may escape from the gloomy dungeon of prej...
2. CHAPTER ONE.I refuse to kill your father. I refuse to slay your mother’s son. I refuse to plunge a bayonet into the breast of your sister’s brother. I refuse to slaughter your sweetheart’s...
3. CHAPTER TWO.For leading business men, for leading politicians, for leading preachers, for leading educators, for leading editors, for leading lecturers—for all of these windy patriots who t...
1. Chapter Twelve: Suggestions—and What to Read 338ready “for Jesus’ sake” (and a salary) to glorify war and scream to the “God of Battles” (also the “God of Peace”) for victory; ready to baptize wholesale murder and flatter the...
9. Chapter Ten: “Now What Shall We Do About It?Copied from a Government advertisement in front of recruiting headquarters in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1907. Italics mine. G. R. K. This same form of advertisement...
5. Chapter Eleven.“The modern newspaper is a Roman arena, a Spanish bull-fight and an English prize fight rolled into one. The popularization of the power to read has made the press the chief ins...