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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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. . 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 .