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No. 2S6. ;; ‘ fl 11: H 1111 h n n H»i 1111 i i i-i n m i i w i - m i i i h n i n 11 h - i - im TOVTOT asa 11 i 1111 i i i h - i i i i - h - i i i w w h i i i i i iin i ' i i n - t -H- H - f - H -ri'll 111 i i ri-i-1 m u mi 111 i i-i i i n i 111 i 11 i i n n « , /^Ur should be to leave open all the avenues of truth. As the most effectual hitherto found has been the press, it is, therefore, the first shut up by those w o eai the investigation of their actions.”—Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. I 1 1 I n 1 1 m i M ill III M ill n I M IM I H-l-M 1 I I H -M I I I I 1 H-.t 1 1 I ! I i . - H - H - M l 11-M I-l-M -M ■ M -M -M -f I'M I I ! I i H W - H - i - 1 11 H - H - l- H 11 ¿ -b M -M -I-M H -M -M H-I- M M -1-1-M --M -M -M 1 1 1 1 l- H -H H 1 11-1 ■I-I-1 M I 1-HH-H-M--M-1 l l l l l l l I-I I 1 M t , German daily, N. Y. Volkszei Now com es th e B udget, arch-1 tung, which throughout the w ar slanderer of the working class of As*! has been strictly neutral, un- to ria —as p e r a la te anonym ous com w avering in its com bat against m u n icatio n and m any o th e r infer- the < icrman governm ent and es- ences in connection with the ship- pecially against the agitation y ard and mill w o rk e rs’ s trik e —and j practised by its hirelings in this THE H A R V E S T OF T Y R A N N Y :: •• parties are the expression of e c -,tb e hands of a class which every onomic interests, ami in the last day grows sm aller and whose analysis are carried to victory or rapacity and greed and lust o f defeat by tiie development or re power grows as its num bers dim tardation of economic classes. inish. Here also we find that Exam ine the history of America ¡the m ilitary and police forces of for the last decade in the light the nation are continuallv at the ian. Kings and capitalists m ay | elusive posses’sian of certain a u to c rac y and disorder. In th is cam fight for these things—peoples, nations. If individuals make paign th e S o cialist p a rty sta n d s pre never! such claims they are laughed to em in en tly for th e m ain te n a n c e of Vet it is peoples th at m ust scorn. W hy?— with what logic c o n stitu tio n a l rig h ts by law and, in make wars. So kings and capi- —m ay nations make such claims? th e h ighest se n se of th e word, for talists m ust find some m eans of j N ationalism claims that the A m ericanism .” D eclaring th a t none of th e o th e r enlisting their subjects in their • culture belonging to one nation tinct from that belonging p a rties stood for th ese th in g s. Hill- other. T his was so in (>uit pointed out th e com placence of but the natural evolu tb e People over th e fact th a t B ennett ankind is m aking it less bad alm ost been robbed of his p ri v e rtise s on its front page yesterday, paper. ami as such is a steadtast is the political weapon of ad- er than to the peasants in the old mary tradition. B u t in the 20th i so. Increased means of c o m -; n ia rV election. T he sp e a k e r ascrih- is to jingle th e curfew a t an early enemy of worldwide cap italism .! vanced capital, of great trusts country. But here the analogy centurv the teachings of human- m unication—the telegraph, wire- ,his ,o ’be fa c t th at th e o th e r hour. T hat paper was deprived of its and mam m oth com binations of stops. In Ireland the governm ent ness, the softening influences of less, the railroad, the steam boat. Parties, d iscred ited in th e public It is a d e licate subject of which second class postal privileges wealth. Hence, as during the was a foreign g o v ern m en t; it was civilization, have progressed so airplane—have caused nations to bad brought th e public to the to tre a t, and should be ap proached even prior to the pu ttin g in force last decade the whole trend of outside of our control and beyond far th at another means is need- exchange their products until to - view ’b a t. “Oh. well th e y 're only a w ith caution and horse-sense. Every of the gag-law. bv virtue of the industry has been tow ard greater our reach, and hence no political ed to stir one nation against an -j dav there is no essential d iffe r-.10’ of politicians." crow n m an and wom an ought to espionage act. concentration of capital, we find action of ours could completely i other T hat m eans has been ' cnee between anv oi the countries A Brave effect of th e cynical a tti- know by th is tim e th a t curfew s do I bus the treatm ent of these that the Republican party has m aster the situation or achieve found. It is Nationalism . 'o f file world. Even language is tu<le> be continued, w as th e public’s not teach se lfp ro te ctio n ; th a t such tw o new spapers proves as clearlv grown stronger and stronger and ¡our freedom from the oppression The 19th century presents the i tending to become universal, com placence over th e a b ro g atio n of can only com e from eugenic knowl- as anything can be proven at all. its bold upon the political in sti-jo f the m aster class. I h a t class J phenomenon of the small nation ¡M ore people understand each th e co n stitu tio n by th e denial to pa edge of th e law s of n a tu re and th e against whom the censorship is tutions of the country has been sheltered behind the British Gov- In America and in Europe d o - 1 other today than ever before. cifists and Soc ia lists of th e rig h ts of . in ev . itab . v le consequences w . hich . . . follow .. aim ed: w hether against the cne- proportionately tightened. Today ernm ent, and our vote for free-izen s of small peoples whose na- i G overnm ents are com ing to re- free speech and assem blage. th e ir violations. Curfew s and o th e r mies of capitalism or the enemies ¡the governm ental m achinery of dom was answered by a foreign I tional individuality had lo n g ' semble each other. Codes of e th ic s! “" ’bat th e y fail to see.” he said p ru d ery can n e v e r ta k e th e place »I our country. the United States is completely arm v shaking tliirtv thousand ! been absorbed in th at of some are becom ing international. I ti is lbat 11 tbe government is allow ed of w ise p a re n ta l counsel from p a re n ts \n d the situation appears to jin the hands of the servants of bayonets in our faces. But in the i other nation reasserted tliem- is only bv the m ost artificial kin.1 to makR tb e se in ro ad s in th e const!- of sons and d au g h ters. be the same also in other c o n n -! capital, and Senate and Congress United States, although the m as-¡selves. Serbia. Greece, Roum an- of propaganda that n atio n alism !tut,onaI 1,bGrt,es of ’bR sovereign peo- T h at a condition sim ilar to that , tries. 1 he sole favorite of tile are but instru im ents for re g iste r-; jcr pie. there is no saying how much ter class—the class proprietors—rests ■ ia and Bulgaria battered their js being kept alive of the B u d g e ts headliner does exist, governm ent of our nearest n e ig h -■ ing the decrees of the tru st niag -|u p o n the governm ent, and al- way to national independence, N ationalists often claim t h c }farther the government will go. in A storia, m ost every one knows to ¡bor, ( anada, am ong the Finnish I nates oi the I nited States. ( )n ! though that governm ent rests Sweden and N orw ay separated, doctrine enunciated bv Spencer,' And tbat brings to us another he true. But the inference is s that the I i )emocratic mai new new spapers is a sheet sneet p u b n lish u sn e ed u ! ; the tne other otner hand, nano, tne democratic ; j upon Uj)on arm ed forces to t«> m aintain Italv became a nation. Holland that evolution proceeds from the iRsue~ the issue of war and peace. ou r hom e boys have suddenly tu e d I by b v a - ’ highway ’ ’ ’ • ■ ’ * " 1 ¡’an(] enforce ‘ tu rn rn ed robber who lias party ' is the party of “ the small its will, vet, all alike, and Belgium rose to threaten l»y homogeneous to the heterogen- If is an isHue in this RamPai«n- to prey upon th e young d efen iseless seless escaped from the clutches ofib u sin ess man, and of those n a r-j])ejn<r native ami not foreign, are their existence tne peace of E ur- eolls> as tIlcir spccial justification. I thoueh u may seem RX,ranROUS g irls—th e ir schoolm ates and bov >yhood , justice solely for the reason that j row ideas upon economics and ^within the reach of the political ope O ther nations not so sue lt is true that out of prom iscuité frien d s and th is ought to be resent-jthe editor is now pretending to 'p o litic s which correspond to the ' and economic action of the Am cessful m ade their national as- of savagery rose the nation, and W O M E N E X P L O IT E D ed by them in the m an n e r the im- be a supporter of the nearest narrow business lines and r e s - j erjcan workers and can at any i pirations felt and beard. T hese that in the past ’ 000 vears «Teat BY W A R P R O F IT E E R S plication deserves. F o r not only does | relative to the idea of individual ; tricted enocomic action o f the ; moment be m astered by them. ' were the Poles in three nations, nations have"crumbled and given th e public know th a t a sad condition j ro b b e rv : the class robbery, ini.ldle class in general. Hence, ! j j ence the hopelessness which at ! the Czechs, the W elch, the I r wav to small nations. But if the W ritin g in a New York new spaper, e x ists am ong the young people, but ; as the last decade has witnessed j one time seized upon the popular ! ish. the Finns and the Jews. On nationalists will follow out this th e public, down in its cowed h e a rt, j UNIONISM MAKING a co rresp o n d en t s ta te s th a t in th is I the continual absorption by the i m jnj jn Ireland need never p a r - > everv hand there was the re- doctrine to its final conclusion HISTORY. city of 6.000.000 population th e re know s w hat is resp o n sib le for this, tru sts of the business of its pettv alvze the action of the wage slave i crudescence of forgotten lam they will note that it predicates w ere less th an 39,000 m en d rafted , and it will in due tim e be laid a t th e “O rganized labor in tlie I ’nited com petitors, so it has also wit- ! here. Freedom lies within t h e , uages, the revival of “cu ltu res” the breaking up of the nation and th a t th e re a re still tho u san d s paneled doors of special privilege States is going ahead more rap- nessed the absorption by the Re-j grasp of the American wage a long time dead, and with it all w here it belongs. At p re se n t, tru th idly at present than at artv o th e r ; Pld)lican party of the one-time slav e: he needs but the mind and j came the natural concom itants, into individuals. This, finally, of w orkers unem ployed, despite the means the end of nationalism , of may hid e aw ay and save itself for j time in its history." writes E ditor 1 adherents of democracy ; as it has I t]le knowledge to seize it. ¡petty national pride, small jcal - group m orality, of national con- . cry of “labor sh o rta g e .” “And y e t,” co n tin u es th e w rite r. th e day of reckoning Mullen in the L abor Clarion. .w itnessed the downfall of th e. W hat, then, is the lesson fo ro u < ie s, disunion, bloodshed and sciousness, all of which will be I “we see wom en ru n n in g elev ato rs. The B udget's a rtic le s ta te s th at “ In tru th it is m aking more ! middle class as a social factor, su the Irish workers in A m erica: \ war. lost in the individual conscious- soldering in facto ries, a c tin g as m es th e re a re 15 g irls ap p ro a c h in g m a progress in a single week n o w ’1 ’s w itnessing the downfall o f i \\ e are not tru st m agnates, n o r; .. . ness. sen g ers and used in o th e r places te rn a l life. C o nsidering tlie fearful than it form erly made in years Hhe political party of the middle ! little business men, and the in -!. ’ lirst the rulers oi tne u o rid Nationalism is an unm itigated w here th ey can he h ired c h e ap e r secrecy in all such cases, if fifteen a m i t h b i ; s , (¡nick action ; is sure ,.L ,. toT r ^ass l a « a and n d its li m i ination n a ti o n a as s a a ! terests „ which 1 ,;,.!, h bind ;„ ,I us t to n tbn<P! its e elim those ’ought this new spirit, but grail- curse! It leads inevitably to th an m en and used for sen satio n al cases a re ac tu a lly know n, th en th ere : nrni" m its wake new problems political factor. And just as t h e |W]lo work beside us and suffer | ! ually they came to see its possi- m ust he nearly a h u n d red w hich are ' - i t h u r ‘k r? 'in fin iU lv " strL n g ^ ribiHties’ ;ind th «n ’ b- v seeming to j ‘ chauvinism and to national ag- ad v ertisin g . for solution, questions which will pettj business man may hang on wun us are inimneiy stronger oDr" es’ " VC’ 7 " it session. It leads to a patriot- “ I know of one facto ry th a t dis not know n to any but th e suffering requirc the active application of to a m eager existence m business than the traditions which draw ’ oppress it. which draw It ey l \ they e- fostered - t t r c l its “ i - f o r t h e so il f o r t h e m n i m l a r the best brains in the movemenf. A 'h ilst no longer seriously con- ns tow ard those of our despoilers, i ^ o w tn ami increased its strength. I,s,n 1or tbc so’l’ for the particular charged 150 m en. not one of whom and deluded girls. lovemenf, T he irre p a ra b le condition ex ists ami the exercise of forethought sid e rin g h im self as a co m p etitiv e lienee, our duty is plain. \Ve | M anifestations that would have int of e arth ’s surface on Wliicli had been d rafted , and put women in all rig h t, but curfew s and p ray e rs and sound judgm ent on the part fa c to r in in d u s try , so th e p o litical must fight against in A m erica' a PPeared sill\ had there been no a particular person has been born. th e ir places, giving them from $?. to and p etitions will n e v e r rem edy it. I of the rank am I file. Tlie union party o f the Democracy may that which ha> plundered and o p p o sitio n seem ed p a trio tic du- It leads to narrow ness ami big- $4 less a w eek th an th ey did th e i otrv, to national iealousv an I m en. and then cry in g “ T he w ar h as and th is grow n m en with fam ilies of ¡s it* structure a c - |ban!2 <>n 1° a sordid existence in j hunted us in Ireland. Here as ties in the face of "foreign oo- Ban-Slavism and tak e n our m e n !’ th e ir own ought to realize. F u rth e r, c n r ,1{ni, lv j s a w is e u n mu. am 1 1 local affairs by m eans of its c o n -; there, ami here greater than pression." So the “oppression” netty pride. Ban-f icrmanism are its children, j “ A big d ep artm en t §tore th a t n<*y It is ran k hypocrisy to m>w say to tin ne that is ignoring the p o s -; whilst entirely d im there, the enemy of Our race is continued, while thc forces of In the end nationalism is the er had any o th e r kind of w o rk ers th e se girls th a t th e ir lives a re for- s j l ,i j j t j c s ,,f the future will be [’nate<l as a serious aspirant to na- private property in the means of nationalism , bottled up for a while, increased until they were | bcst °* cl?aks for the intrigues on its elev ato rs b u t colored m en now ev er ruined because of unw ise j sorrv ior ih Em ployers who a r e ; tional power. life. In Ireland it was funda capable of exerting a trem endous ( and m achinations of kings and has young wom en. S urely all the m ents. T he least th a t now can be c o n ; pelle(1 t o y ie ld ¡oditv to the m entally private property in land \Ye Irish workers are then not pressure. Then came cataclvsm j capitalists.— (By David B. Ber- young colored m en have not been done is to teach them th a t life can d rafted , and even if th ey w ere th e re be lived on in its very fulness and a re hun d red s of elderly m en who th ey ran tak e a resp ected place in w ould be glad to get th is kind of society in sp ite of a n y th in g they m ay L j work. h a v e done in an irresp o n sib le hour. “T his cry of w om en ta k in g th e And above all, th e im plied stain ¡-( places of m en is to a g re a t e x te n t <now, should be lifted from th e young ju st a cheap, u n p a trio tic w ay of a d ac- w orkingm en of A storia who have not ^ .(C v e rtisin g and g e ttin g an u n d ern aid all and would not com m it th is Hun crim e aur employers, and as our c m -, liberties. . . W hoever class u n d er th e cry of ‘n ecessity ' It upon th e ir little schoolm ates of for ature tbc powers that be, it is easier other plovers we know do not allow l?r,vatt;‘ Pr(,l)crt>b grown m ; t ]ian cver to (ll ^ cnre this tact knew T ru th put to the worse i i is a ttra c tin g h u n d red s of unskilled m er days. T he B udget know s, and IR IS H W A G E W O R K E R S IN ih.dr -w-tionc to 1.» .m venipl bv Ironi the sucking of human blood. V?an c ie r to oOsiure tins tact, a free and open encounter? . . wom en to th is city, w h ere th e re ;s th e com m unity a t large know, w here o u r in te re s ts we a7e certaii l'v! In botb 5t is thc encm>’ of the i Nationalism ,s the cloak behind N E W YO RK. th e im m ediate cause lies, but th e ir Bv Jam es Connolly. not under anv moral o b li"a tiu ii' human race. To quote the words i ^' och the economic causes work. For who know s not th at T ruth no rem u n e ra tiv e em ploym ent for un ler a n \ mi ral 1 lib a tio n , Jones the C h a rtis t' Let us examine carefully thc is strong, next to the A lm ighty? them , and keeps th e ignorant, u n cowed h e a rts d are not speak. T he 'I’lie following article appeared to t shape our political activity to V X i t J opening of this war. A Serbian She needs no policies, nor stra t th in k in g person excited over tile pow ers th a t be w ere determ in ed to in T he Harp, the m onthly jo u r nit the interests of our employ break th e sp irit of labor in A storia. nal of the Irish Socialist federa fellow worker of John M itch el., nationalist killed an A ustrian agems, nor licensings to make j tho u g h t th a t all ou r m anhood is ers. To answ er th at question The re su lt has as usual fallen upon tion. in May, 1908: whose defense he spent one ; archduke. Ibis act, with proper her victorious ; those are the ; d rafted or about to he." properly we m ust ask ourselves i ’n -------- —— —--------------- the shoulders le a st able to bear it— 'm anagem ent, was made to appear shifts and tlie defenses that error As an organization of Irish we Irish are here at all i n !-v caJ' ,n Pr,son- , n f f e m e ao-ninct A u s tr ia n n a uses against her „.»ver. . , .; PATHET.C T R , ^ . * b £ th e little round sh o u ld ers of w hat men and women we desire to ask r why h ic r n n n t v in ^ t p a d . . i in I n - la n d I I he monopoly of land drives an oticii. c against A ustrian na- in tia n . worker) from thc farm tionalism. .Austria made certain And what do they tell us vain-1 ______ w ere a b rie f tim e ago th e rom ping, viuir attention w hilst we place tliis c< unt\ in tea 1 Certainly we have no complaint ’J ”11 (tne w orker; irom inc iarm , . • . happy school girls. T he le a s t we can before you our views upon the to m a k e -lo-ainst o u r n a tiv e la n d into tbc factory, and the monop-1 *,cni'}n<ls imm aterial to us—on ly of new opinions, w hen this i (C ontinued from P age One) make a^ain t 1 o lv o f m achinery drives him fro m ' Serbia. Serbia. deem ing her verv opinion of theirs, th at n o n e ' ----------------------------------------------- do now, is to . help them o r say position occupied by the men and t and we lor the most part did n o tlol> ot niatiuntrv u t \t . ; national nride rJfpniUrl ,,,- thev ! br®,,a ?',i1,bout,.an\ rib” ° r ? n . 1895 n o th in g ; not to add h y p ocrisy to a b women of our race in America, come here for pleasure We tllc factory into tbc street. andin* ” o "al pride oftended protesa- m ust be heard but whom . - i autom obile w ithout anv w heels or jec t cow ardice on ou r p a rt. Russia, prntector of !,erh.a 5 lK.C’. 1S . e " ,,rst and newest Pngine. F ie k e rt. as he well know s, and also your attitude upon tbc came here b ecu .sJ w e.found th a t! th " s erndfie«! between the • ! • > -♦-------------- - great question of the age- -the Ireland was private property, ¡thieves of land and capital, the m otional existence, stepped in. opinion of all others. . . 1 his h a s n ’t enough real testim ony to con- '■ 'C hrist of labor hangs in silent A ustria objected to Russian in I know, that errors in a g o o d ' vlct a dog of scra tch in g for fleas, relation of capital ami labor. th at a small class had taken pos GOVERNMENTAL and in a bad' a r e ! T he tru th is th a t W einberg had no terference on the ground of in governm ent , • • i , r m ore to do w ith th e bom b explosion FAVORITES Particularly upon this latter session of its resources— its land, !a»pny. equally alm ost incident, tor w tat q ian any nth e r raan ptpkpd a t ran- question we Irish workers are its lakes, its rivers, its m ountains, ' e appeal to you, then, fellow fringem ent of her national sover m agistrate m ay not be may Be m isin dom out of a crow d of 500,000 peo today at the parting of the w avs; its bogs, its tow ns and its cities, ; coun’r. 'nien- rally around t it eignty. Russia mobilized. Ger formed, and much the sooner if ple T he onlv offenses he ev er com Tn New York Citv a capitalist our action now may forever exalt its railways, its factories and its , " n Lv banner that symbolizes hope many, under the influence of a m itted w ere to send his little girl to paper named N. Y. Staatszeitun"* our race as pioneer and apostles fisheries. In short, th at a small and lor X“ 11 1,1 America as in nationalistic mania. Pan-G erm an liberty of printing be reduced studv m usic u n d er M rs Mooney and to drive Mr and Mrs. M oonev hom e is being published in the German ' of a sane social order, or forever class ow ned Ireland and that the ! U H and—the banner ot Sotialism . ism. lined up with A ustria. W ar into the power of a few?" from a m eeting a t which th e heinous language. At the beginning of damn us as the janissaries of rem ainder of the population were Cast off all your old political j ’‘»Bowed. sin of c re a tin g a s trik e on th e U n i Erench nationalism sm arted the w ar that paper openly and despotism . W hich shall it be? ted R ailroads w as discussed. the bond slaves of these proprie affiliations and organize and vote under the sting of 1870. So Let us reason quietlv together! tors. W’e came here because we to reconquer society in the in strongly embraced the German If a n e u tra l onlooker h a s to choose France formed an alliance with w h e th e r he would play p rosecuting W’e speak to von as fellow w ork found the governm ent of the terests of its only useful class- cause, even going to the inde tto rn e y or p riso n e r in th is p ath etic cency of eulogizing the sinking ers and as fellow countrym en, country was in the hands of those ! tlie workers. Let your slogan b e ' Russia. Hence, France is in the REVOLUTION IN GERMANY W ILL a farce lie would not h e sita te long Belgium, too. lias a nation- of the Lusitania as a g re a t Ger and we ask where do von stand FOLLOW P E A C E , SOCIALIST an<1 be would not choose to be Fick man success, not to m ention its in politics todav? H itherto the prt or one of F ic k e rt’s unhappy m in S P E A K E R P R E D IC T S A T M E E T ions. Trish in the I ’nited States have most b itte r objection to export Kaiser Started War to Stifle Rising Revolt w ing m unitions of w ar to the almost entirely supported the ment \llies. Recently. when some D em ocratic party, but the time those proj,. ,s docum ents seized from the G er has come when the m aioritv of us back to our chains whenever man legation w ere examined, thoughtful Irishm en are begin we rose in revolt against oppres there was found another, a more ning to realize that as the causes sion. And as we learned that “A m erican" reason for this pa that originally led to that affili-1 since that governm ent was back per’s conduct than a purely ab ation are now no longer existent. ed and m aintained by the might stract love of its nationality, j the affiliation itself m ust be re- of a nation other than our own, T bere was uncovered a $20.000 considered. Political parties m ust and more num erous than us, we cheque for the paper’s pro-Ger- j thrive or fall according to the could not hope to overthrow that man services. But now after the ¡present developm ent of the class governm ent and free our means declaration of war and since the in society thev represent, and of living from the grasp of those German legation w ith most of its cannot- be kept alive bv a mere proprietors, we fled from that hirelings and probably with the tradition of their attitude in past land of ours and came to tlie most of its m onev. too. has left emergencies. T h e supposed an- United States. the country the paper at once tagonism of the Dem ocratic nar- In the United States we find turned its back to everything tv tow ard the Know N othin" German, changing upon the spot movenient in the past w on fo r i t ; th at every day the condition of into a most ardent partisan of die support of thc Trfsh workers, m atters for the w orking class the Allies and into one of the but Know N othingism ' is not an drifting more and more in the wildest w ar fanatics. It k n e w issue todav. and as the Democ- i direction of the conditions we as the capitalist pre^s ahvaxs ratic partv is going down to an had left behind. H ere the re- does, which side of the bread was unhonored grave because of its sources of the country are also And through this inability to grasp the problem s in the hands of a small class- buttered. som ersault the paper was su e-(o f our own time shall we Trish the land, the rivers, the lakes, the cessful in snatching a special ! workers suffer ourselves to be forests, the fisheries, the towns, exemption from the provisions t dragged to social perdition with the cities, the factories, the rail roads the entire means of life of it of the gag law There is in New York another No : fellow countrym en, political eighty millions of people are in ING. “I have They Never Will Be Missed no doubt w h a te v er th a t all countries, saw a chance to the example of Rugsia and the sacri- NATIONALISM- redeem more oi her nation fices and suffprinp-« nf trip n CAU SE O F W A R S fr o m th c “forei gn oppressor j fices and sufferin g s of th e G erm an th o se whom he previously oppressed, people would have resu lted in a revo- R ussia is lonely in his S iberian exile, 'a n d joined in thc mess. In every lution long ago if it w ere not for Possibly those who w ere his form er Socialists have alw avs claimed , case we find nationalism . , Q • 1 th e m enace to th e fa th e rla n d ’ held victim will he m pity, » « I * . * . - ------------ I , i t i t 1 ---------- V ll lI I U s « Y \1J1 u e I I 1 oved OVPU I to O p ity , i a l l t that at the bottom of all w ar . t .cJ>ursR> o r t h o 9 o x \ o c ia .1* j up, to th e G erm an people by th e ju n k - ■ le a s t to th e e x te n t of m aking his there is an economic cause. This ,st >av, b u t n a ti o n a li s m i s , e rs ,” declared M orris H illquit, So- tim e pass m ore p leasan tly w ith plen- claim is substantiated by a c a re -' n? t t ‘ie rea* fea so n : the real cause cialist can d id ate fo r m ayor, in a ty of congenial com pany. fill studv of the causes and re- of tb Js v'ar economic rivalry ¡sp e e c h delivered a few days ago a t T he ex-czar h as g ratu ito u sly shown suits of all the great wars th i t ' A d m i tt e d . b u t the neop e think j th e F rie n d s ’ M eeting House, 144 E ast th a t he h arb o rs no m alice a g a in st have disturbed the peace of the! Bieir national pride that was ,20th s tre e t, New York. th o se whom he previously oppressed. world since the time of A lex an -, ' ’’(ended, and this, and this onlv. C ontinuing, th e nom inee said th a t From his h e rm it’s re tre a t, he gladly der's _ expedition, and even fur- , has made ------------ - ----- . . the . . people fight. Kings , he did not doubt th a t w hen th is ste p s out of self-effacing o b sc u rity ther back than that. The pres-¡and capitalists ltave made a very “m en ace” is rem oved by peace th a t and retire m e n t only to offer to pur- ent breakdown of civilization i n ! cJ ever a Pe°9lc s m ove - ¡ th e H ohenzollern regim e would end chase a p art of the free R ussia liber- Etirope is more than ever due to ’bent. ih ev have turned the its rule of th e G erm an em pire. “ I tv loan. Can it be th a t th e h e a rt of economic rivalry. I t is notor- neonles weapon against the ¡a lw a y s have thought, and I th in k it the great, kind m oujik will n ot be ious to all students of historv > People, and the "eople do not as to day,” declared H illquit, “th a t t i e touched by th e p e a sa n t sim plicity of that “spheres of influences" and vet know it. G erm an k a ise r and G erm an ju n k erism the ex-czar? “ places dav the large . nations, too w ere anxious to thro w G erm any a i d _______ in the . _ sun" are onlv . i . But w h ere is th e com pany to com e elegant see- tb a t one nation is b e tter j th e world into w ar because th ey w ere frotn for th e ex-czar? T he R ussians ______ phrases that really mean exclusive possession of foreign ! than manv. and then will come anxious to save th e ir d y n asty frem do not seem to h a n k e r a fte r th e pre- m arkets and trade privilege. But j internationalism , which means th e risin g flood of Socialism in Ger- ! cedent se t by th e F ren ch revolution. these things are known onlv to j no nationalism , m an>’ ” ! for in stan ce, and e ith e r guillotine o r the careful investigator into facts Nationalism alwavs claims cer- “ The principle we stan d for,” he , e x n e th o se who but early in th is y e a r and to the unprejudiced h isto r-p a in virtues as the peculiar, ex- said, “ is dem ocracy and law a g a in st ¡w e re the a g e n ts of a u lo c ra tie cru elty .
