To Slop The War
Remove The Cause
By 'hud f>. Thompson.
Soiid-iist Press Bureau.
II you heard a wild cry in lie
night and rushed to the crib 01
your child and she was gone—
.you will want to know who took
hor nrv^ry.
“ And if !.;!cr you found her ho
dy.in some lonely wood, In i
llesh torn am/’ ravished, her ba
by hair mam d in the blood \
grass—you would want to know
what ucnion did the deed.
You nr ’tld want to know. You
would t>e wild to knew. You
would mo ve heaven and earth to
find out. Relatives, neighbors,
fiiends. detectives, police, blood
hounds—telegraph, t< K phone,
dictaphone - -everybody, overv
thing you could think of you
would use to find out who the de
rnonwa-i.
• B today a bloody hand ha
ached into all f,ie homes of
great continent, i lie first born
maybe the second and third ar>
gone. In multiplied miliions o'
homes the wild cry in the nigh
And afterwards the long \vear\
march to the slaughter fields
And toe tears at borne. A worlo
'convulse,! with infinite, unspeak
able, grief stricken horror.
Who linn done this?
Yoiydemand to know. You
ought to know. You should liini
out.
And we propose to toll you.
Plainly, clearly-point blank s<
there can he no dodging or
doubt.
’Capital.am has done this,
at is not the Czar nor the King
bur the emperor-it is capitalism
It is not the Slav or the Teuton,
’t is not tlie Christian or tin
Mohammedan—it is capitalism.
We cannot Jure present si,
the evidence to eonv;ct the crim
inal. But we give you the clue.
V/e trust you to move heaven
anu earth in following it to tin '
end.
Oapjpilism is llio system ir,
which fh :'?e win) toil arerobbeu
10-half of what iliryprod i -t
A hundred million workers pro
ducing twice as much wealth as
they get back in wages, arc un
a‘.:le to buy hack out of the mai
ket what their wealth .puts int
it lienee a surplus-an overpro
duction accumulates.
A surplus accumulates in Eng
laud, A surplus aeeumukites in
France, in Russia, in Servia, in
Japan in flie islands ef the sea
A surplus accumulates in A"ie
ri -a. Everywhere a surplus. This
is capitalism.
This surplus cannot be dispo
ed of to the people in any cap
italistic nation s nee such peo
jdc^rre i npoverisbed. Under
the profit sr'slem of capitalism
every nation must find a place
to dispose of its surplus.
Hence tire world struggle for
soreign market.', Hence Eng
land is in South Africa fighting
for markets; hence Germany is
} 1 Asia Minor; Russia in the
lia’kans; France in Morocco; ali
of them in Africa; America in
the Phillipines—all struggling
for foreign markets
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It is serious, stern business.
L'o defend and acquire markets
i nation must have arms, ar
mies, navies aiul fortifications.
They all have them.
Now little Servia wants to sell some
her surplus Roods, —for profit of
■ourse. in the markets of the world.
She must ship over Austria-Hun jar
an railroads. The tariffs and rates arc
xtortionate. Profits again—and the
luestion of markets. At 1 st Servia
strikes at Austria. Austria rises to
rush and absorb Servia. liussia cannot
take a chance of losing a passage way
mt of the Black Sea to the Mediteran
ean for in that case her market would
be cut off. Markets again.—and profits.
So Russia backs Servia. Then Germany
backs Austria; England and France
uack Russia- -and the match is in the
magazine.
All inevitably and logically the direct
outcome of capitalism and the profit
system. Everything else is incidental.
CVirism, Imperialism, Colonizuth n. j’,.n
Slavism, Mohamodanisin — those are b i
but incidents.
And tilt' name bloody hand that reach
I into the homes < f Europe today wi'
■s murdc .us grip rear • also in..
Mines of America.
American capitalism -tin- same grin,
iant that crushes Uio life out of Em
iean peoples by extortion and plume
md finally plunges the whole world in
.0 war is playing the same tragedy
lere. The moment the war in Europe
ireaks out capitalism in America g. c.
nad. It sees a chance to double the
ribute it has wrung from a people al
endy goaded to the point of desperate,
y unprecedented high prices. Up .
he nrices. Up and up again.
"Whom the gods would dcstro
Irst make mad,” These Am
alists learn nothing from th • i:
m Europe. They cr.ro notiiuig - v.
tor profit.
Capitalism—the profi' system is rid;.
America straight to the seme abyss
it has ridden the peoples of Europe.
Capitalism is the criminal. His the
hand that strikes in the night. His the
bloody blows that startle the world
with the wild cries of terror. Him we
must stay if we are to save humanity.
Trace the tracks yourself. Tracethem
1 s i.y; from the cry of terror at the
war; back to the bloody fields where ha
inanity lies in myriad hideous forms—
demented, decapitated, disemboweled.
Trace them back past kings and czars
and thrones ai d parliaments, bac
back to tne'counting room and the m u
kets There you will find the cause ol
it all—PROFIT, GREED, ROBBERY
('APITALISM.
And when you have found the mur
derer then come and help us eaptu"
him and cast him into hell that ! ■ un
ity may proceed.
By John M. Work.
It was not difiicult to understand the
attitude of the Belgian and French So
cialists. for their countries wop- invad
'd and their firesides thr<
But 1 suspect that soone- r mi or wo
dial' realize that the(J rr’ oracles, :
t ... i,. this action, were ••• ng use
h' the same long headed v. is . a for
v hich tney have be on famous these tna
; years.
It would have been interesting to
le. •.lie discussion in the Executive
Committee when this crucial c|u • Bo"
was decided. We have no means of
knowing at this time what took place
there.
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1 My best guess is that the reasoning
indulged in was sop bmg l»ko 'his.
The question was whether to upporl
the war or raise an insurection byoppo
f sing it. They asked themselves, not
! which of these courses would be the
most momentarily; heroic, but which of
them would make for the ' tuai pro
nr ess of Socialism. They asked them
solves, not which of these courses would
would bring the most applause from
|;e comrades throughout the world,
but which of them would enable the So
eialists to exert the greatest iufiuence
among the masses of the people after
tiie war should cease. They s tw tha,. if
hey started an insurrection, they would
e hopelessly out numbered and out
ju’pned. A million or more of them
would probably he shot us traitors. And,
Cter the close of the War, the remhant
,f the party would haVa lost their in
licence, It would be hated and dcspisc-d
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