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Nome, Alaska, January 7, 191(5.
A great section of the American
people are utterly opposed to pre
pared ness. Another enormous sec
tion is utterly indifferent whether
the country is prepared for war or
not. There is no denying this fact
it is in evidence in newspapers and
in leaflets, in pamphlets, magazines
arid reviews. Moreover, far from
.icing a silent opposition, it is vigor
ous end active, and far from being
a carefully concealed indifference or
au indifference covered over with a
hypocritical feigning of interest.
However faint and lauguid, it is
open, avowed and not at all asham
ed.
The attitude of the first section, and
although tne prcparationlsts assume
that it Is due to ignorance and to
lack of knowledge of a real and im
minent danger, is far better ac
quainted with the facts than the
very men who accuse it of ignor
nnee. It openly sees in the prope
gnnda whiit is four-fifths of its ba
sis. the eagerness of the munitions
trust to fatten itself at the public
expciice, i.i:d they unanswerably
port cut that the preparatlonisu de
dine almost unanimously to remote
the, profit element from the muni
tions industry, and to have the gov
ernment, if it has to be prepare!,
prepare .itself, by building up ItJ
own manufacture of war material,
men, guns and ships, powder and
war appliances.
The other section is indifferent
because of the fact that conditions
do not appear to them to be really
worth fighting for, and while indus
trial conditions, working conditions,
may be better in America than in
come other European countries
which may bo possibly enemies in
the future, the improvement is not
so marked as that they would un
hesitatingly and eagerly, give up
their lives in defense of them.
This attiude is explained by an
analogous situation in England,
very illuminatingly dwelt upon by
the Chicago Tribune when discuss
ing the English coal strike.
The article is worth quoting at
some length, because it w:ll explain
where preparation's^ must begin,
if they would build up a thoroughly
invincible fabric against attack:
“In war circumstances", said the
Tribune writer, "the employing class
finds increased profit, and the em
ployed class is called upon for in
creased work. Great Britain has
insisted upon an individualism
which to the workers meant pro
gress by strife. It now asks for a
communism which means progress
by sacrifice, and the worker de
mands more consideration. If tliu
British Empire is to he worth fight
ing for and working for, why should
it not be worth something to its
workers.
The question as the British work
ers propound it has the ugly aspect
of disloyalty but why should not the
state establish itself as something
worthy of tho great sacrifice it asks?
If Britain is to ask men to work for.
and die for her, let her nmko her
self worth dying for. Tho same sti
pulation will soon apply to the
United States.
There is intelligence in the Brit
ish labor movement, and it warns,
more than sentiment. Men fignt
for what is dear to them. Sehtte
times the value is sontimontai
sometimes it is practical. Sentiment
for sacrifice in war will never grow
sturdily in soil never onriched- by a
consideration of human needs in
time of peace. If the British work
man be surly and disloyal, it is be
cause his government did not re
veal in time of peace sufficient con
sideration for him to make national
emergency worth a personal sacri
fice”. ,
Precisely the same frame of mind
is in evidence in not one or a hund
red but in thousands of workers In
this country, and it is very notice
able in classes whose Jobs are un
steady anil whose lot compels them;
to travel from place to place in
search of a lob.
It is in evidence in places where
least expected, because of industrial
conditions which prevail, it is to
be found in factories and milis, in
mines and other places where the
conditons are such that only eco
nomic stress and competition of an
over stocked labor market would
allow any one to tolerate them.
But if the prepartionists were sin
cere, and looked at the question
from a broader standpoint, they
would know very well that the
greatest security which the United
States could obtain would be in
making conditions such that not a
single person bi;t would feel that
they were worth dying for.
But men must be prepared to ad
mit that it is not to be expected
that you can place yourself in an
other person’s position, and grarp
the facts as he does.
It depends upon the proximity
of one's relations to circumstances
how one will understand those cir
cumstances, and ^it is not doubteci
that those who obtain comfortable i
and decent livings, who find in the
present system the satisfaction of
all their wants, who And pleasant
homes and pleasant social inter
course under the system, will view
the attitude of those who And none
of these things but as one of disloy
alty, not as it should be viewed, the
logical effect of those very circum
stances.
Edmund Burke in his
essay on the French revolution, a
magniAcent literary, if a somewhat
unfortunate political, effort, de
scribed the adorable sight of the
Queen of France. “It is now six-teen
or seventeen years since I saw the
Queen of France then the Dauphin
ess at Versailles, and surely nevei
lighted upon this orb, which she
hardly seemed to touch, a more de
lightful vision". And Burke says
that he would have thought ten
thousand swords would have leaped
from their scabbards to avenge a
hair was threatened with insult.
The treatment which the French
people meted out to Mario Antoin
ette seemed to him outrageous. He
deplored that the age of chivalry
was gone, denounced in that perfect
rhetoric he had always at his com
mand, the miserable canaille tha*.
had done these things.
But the trouble with Burke was
that his imagination had conjured
up a wholly different being as
Queon of Franco to that which was
apparently realized in the eyes ot
the revolutionary masses of tho
French.
To Burke, Mario Antoinette was
an exceedingly beautiful and ex
ceedingly graceful and an exceeding
ly sympathetic queen, awakening
within him, at a long distance, every
sentiment of gallantry and every
ideal of chivalry just as unreal and
artlAclal, however as powerful, as
that which animated Don Quixote.
It was not tho human being but
tho decorated, elevated and en
nobled human being, which excite 1
the emotions of tho brilliant Irish
man. ,
To the French, Marie Antoinette
was the petulant reactionary intri
guer, always opposing tho efforts
of tho people to attain political It
berty, ahfi the woman whb cor
COcted with foreign pbwe'rs to crush
w'it'h enfergy and With retncrSeless
force, the opponents of a royal
autderdey.
The employing dlaoa, everywhere,
has, regarding each state which ddes
so well toward!, them, wrapped their
ideas in a similar Imaginative and,
wholly artlAclal ombroldory, and
they expect the people who fare not
so well to view It as they do, the
embodiment of all that is beautiful
knd good and worth cherishing;
and they see in opposition to an,'
eagerness to make sacrifice to de
fend it, nothing but a craven dis
loyalty or defiant anarchy, both to
be destroyed, utterly and utterly ex
tirpated from the social midst.
They do not realise, because they
cannot, the aspect which a govern
ment controlled by them has for the
masses who have found in Industry
nothing but ill-rcrj•;: s., d labor and
sordid living conditions, ' they
frankly regard any disincline:.: . to
defend the conditions which re
dounded so profitably to them, yet
so unfortunately to the masses,
the stiff-necked sulleness of natures
naturally contumacious and disloyal.
But, as the Tribune writer wisely
pointed out, men fight for what is
dear to them, and if what one class
thinks should be dear to all and is
not, is it not the proper thing to
discover why it is not, and then to
effect a remedy?
In this matter of preparation, it
the intentions are earnest and 'sin
cere and other than a desperate en
deavor to fatten the munition trus;
at the government expense, it is the
supreme duty of the people to seo
that political and industrial condi
tions are such as they will be cher
ished by the masses beyond any
thing in life. That the masses will
not only readily labor for them, but
will unhesitatingly give up their
lives to defend them. And it would
appear on the face of it, that thits
is the only preparations scheme
needed. Why should it cost mil
lions to defend a country when men
would give up their lives and their
fortunes willingly when they feel
and know that their first duty is to
defend it?
But when you have masses re
lieving that these deadly schemes
of preparation are merely plans to
enrich the already multimillioned
plutocrats of the munitions industry
and the armament trust, when you
have the masses regarding such at
tempts as merely an effort to pro
tect a system which exists at their
expense, you have, despite all pre
parations plans, the spirit of dis
integration within which not even
compulsory mlitarism can hope to
serve. And in proportion to the
principles of liberty which are
taught on paper, and the propor
tion of the extent to which those
principles are set at naught in real
life, so the much more active, de
spite forced drafting, is the same
principle of disintegration at work
making it a nation not united in the
fearless strength of liberty absolute
and 'Unsullied, but one wherein a
great proportion Of the population
regard it as a nation existing for a
Money Trust whose Clod is gold ana
to whom property and profits in
stead of Human Well-Being, is what
all are called to defend.
On the other hand, if Ae prepa
rationists in deadly earnest to de
fend the • principles embodied in a
Declaration of Independence, see to
It that the right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness Is not de
nied by any industrial serfdom or
property oppression,, that every man
will be really and vigorously free in
an industriaj democracy,, every man
j will willingly serve and labor either
j to build up an invincible barrier
j against alf foes, and defend the
land against invaders, or better yot
I to spread the same enlightened
I principles throughout the world so
I that there would be no more wars
'or industrial tyrannies, but the
| world would be the realization of
human brotherhood, and the homo,
not of this race or that but of all
men—free men.
A planter down in Kentucky had
just employed a negro as a fnule
driver. He handed him a brand
new blacksnako climbed up on a
scat behind a pair of mules and
asked the darky if he could use the
whip. Without a word the mule
driver drew the black lash between
; his fingers, swung it over his head
and flicked a butterfly from a
| clover blossom alongside the road
jover which they were traveling.
“That isn’t so tad,” remarked
the planter. “Can you hit tnat
! honey bee over there ”
Again the negro swung the whip
and the honey bee fell dead.
Noting a pair of bumble bees on
still another blossom, the darky
swished them out of existence with
the cracker of his new blacksnake
and drew further admiration from
his new employer.
A little further along the planter
spied a hornet's nest in a bUBh be
side the highway. Two or three
hornets were assembled at the en
trance to the nest.
"Can you hit them, Sam ” he
inquired.
“Yes, sah, l kin,” replied the
darkey, "but I an’t agon’ to; dey’s
1 organized.”.—Ex.
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