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| London, Aug. 27 (by Mail).—J. Keir
! Hardie, M. P., has the following article
in the Labor Clarion today:
By J. KEIR HARDIE
One of the most detestable features of
war is the lying malice under cover of
which it is waged. For several weeks
before the war was proclaimed the
“Jingo” press of the country, led by
the Times, endeavored successfully to
stir up feelings of hatred agaiust the
German people. When hostilities broke
out the unscrupulous scallawags who
purvey news for the press invented all
sorts of untrue statements concerning
the way in which British residents and
visitors to Germany were being treated.
Doubtless a similar line of policy toward
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the British people was being pursued in
Germany and elsewhere. Now, how
ever, the absolutely unanimous testim
ony of those who lound themselves in
Germany when the war started is prov
ing conclusively that the treatment they
received at the hands of the officials and
civilians alike was courtesy itself. Those
who knew the German people would
never have expected anything else.
Fighting for German Socialists.
And now a new tact is being worked:
It iS not the German people with whom
we are at war, we are told, but only
with the Kaiser and the military system
of despotism for which he stands. In
fact, one Socialist writer informed his
readers last week that to all intents and
purposes we are fighting the battle of
the Social Democracy of Germany! In
support of this he quoted a document
which was sent broadcast over this coun
try, and which had appeared in one of
the daily papers with all the signatures
attached several days before. Without a
shadow of doubt this so-called manifesto
is a bogus affair. Nobody knows one of
the names attached to it, and clearly it
speaks for nobody. As likely as not it is
the work of some anti-Socialist league.
Attitude of German Socialists.
A reply to the suggestion that we are
fighting for the -German Social Demo
crats is to be found in an extract from
the speech of Haase, delivered in the
Reichstag in the name of the parly, on
the vote for war purposes. After de
scribing the fight put up by the party
against the war, Haase added:
“Before us now stands the iron fact
of war. We are threatened with the hor
rors of hostile invasion. . . .
For our people and for the future of
their liberty much, if not all, is at stake
with the victory of Russian despotism,
which has stained itself with the bleed
of the best of its own people. This dan
ger must be warded off for the sake of
our civilization and the independence of
our country.”
Greetings to German Comrades.
This is a clear declaration. The Social
Democracy of Germany were gradually
nearing the time when they would have
brought the military class to subjection,
and, as Comrade Haase points out, what
is now happening is this—Kaiserism is
to be smashed, and Czarism installed in
its stead! The Social Democrats of Ger
many will regard with contempt those
Socialists here who are seeking to make
it appear that we are engaged in an al
truistic war on their behalf. That they
must regard as sheer hypocrisy. When
the war is over it will be Russia that
will carry off the laurels, and probably
a good installment of German militarism
will have become part of our own na
tional institutiona.
To our German Comrades, then, as
well as those of France, Belgium, and
elsewhere, the Independent Labor party
will send fraternal greetings with the
assurance that, with trifling and neglig
ent exceptions, the party is solid in its
sympathy with them in trying circum
stances in which they are placed. Speak
ing sor the moment for myself I repeat,
what will be universally acknowledged
twelve months hence, that we are in
this war without justification, reason or
excuse. It is true that in the ranks of
the Labor party there are those who
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PADDY O’HOOLIGAN
ON
War in General
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Me naybor, Terrence Gilhooly laid
down th paper he wus readin in me
cabeeu t’ other night. “B’ hivins,” sez
he, “this war is terrible, horrible! An
oi see there’s another new revolushun
on in Mexico agin.” “Wurra! Wurra!
wailed Terrence, but th poor peons will
pay dearly, wid th sufferin an hardships
Th divil take that bandit Villa, he
should be stood up agin an adobe wall!”
Arrah gwan! wib yer nonsense about
th poor peons!” sez oi. “Shure th pore
divvils land is all given away t’ furrin
ers fer banana ranches an th poor divils
hov t’ fight or go back t their masters
on th big ranchos an hiaciendas. Faith
th rebels are hovin th toime of their
lives, free rides atop iv box cars, an
their tamollies, tortillas, frijolees an
cigaretts coomin reglar and no long
winter ahead in a grub trust starin thim
in th face. Charity, Terrence,” sez oi
“should begin at home.”
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The Voter's Psalm
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The politician is my shepard; I shall
not want for anything during the cam
paign; he leadeth me in the saloon for
my vote’s sake; he filleth my pockets
with cigars and my beer runneth over.
I He inquireth after my family even nnto
! the third and fourth generations. Yea.
j though I walk through the mud and
Could yez tell me phwat th army in
th North iv Oireland an th army in th
south iv Oireland are doing these days ?
Faith they wus ready t’ fly t each others
throats jist before th big war? I hear
thot they’re all now wearin red coats an
foightin the Dootch, but b’ me sowl oi
don’t believe it. Th lads from County
Cork foightin soide by soide wid th Or
ange sassenachs!
Sliure an th peepul in th Tanana Val
ley are up in arms agin th grub peddlrs
Did yez ever see sich gougin! Th attor
ny gineral warned th grub trusts Out
side agin raisin proices, an oi see Cross
ley’s goin t’ investigate. B’ jabers
something has got to be done or we’ll
all famish.
An oi see th reglar Murphy war on
Distreect Attorney Jim Crosslev is over
at last. B’ gory, Crossley, single handed
wid his back agin th*wall, gave th bos
ses a great tussle.
rain to vote for him and shout myself
hoarse, when elected he straightaway
forgetteth me. I meet him in his own
house and he knowetli me not. Surely
the wool hath been pulled over mine
eyes—will someone please wake me up!
Ex.—
The principal thing in a political cam
paign is to be successful in making peo
ple believe that you are sincere.