In that event we must strongly appeal to patriotism and try to induce the surrender of personal profit or benefit in order that we may preserve the nation and promote human welfare. Anyone who rejects the possibility of war must be blind to current events. Sad indeed it is that it should be true, but none the less it is a staring fact that every theory that war between civilized nations had ceased to be possible has been rudely shattered by recent events. Every prediction that there would be no more wars has proved false. Every plan heretofore proposed to prevent war has thus far proved futile. Every influence relied on to put an end to war has proved a broken reed. The Socialists have inveighed against war. Now they are voting war loans and fighting in the armies. The labor organizations have long proclaimed their opposition to war. The war is on, and they are apparently giving little attention to it. Again and again it has been declared that kings make wars and the people fight them. That is all very true, in the past and in the present, but once more the people are doing the fighting. We have been told that the workingmen of the world have power to stop war. No doubt they have, if they would use it, but they will not do so. While this greatest of all the world's wars was brewing, the workingmen were busy manufacturing the machinery of destruction. And they are still doing it. And they will keep on doing it, as long as wages are to be earned that way. Every piece of shrapnel that crashes into a human brain, or tears a human heart, or mangles a human hand on a battlefield has been laboriously and patiently made by some other human hand working for wages in some factory. Some manufacturer has thereby made a profit. And the money to pay that profit was loaned to some Christian nation for its war chest by some sanctimonious pawn-broker of the class described in "Unseen Empire" by David Starr Jordan. It is civilized warfare, among civilized nations, in this age of civilization, sustained by civilized legislative representatives of civilized people, conducted by civilized soldiers, equipped for human destruction by civilized business men who furnish machinery of war that is manufactured by civilized workingmen. And the workingman makes wages, the business man earns his good dividends, the banker gets his snug profit, and the man at the top, "the man on horseback," who started the bloody orgy gets dividends, honors, special privileges, and greater power as his share in this twentieth-century massacre of humanity by the so-called humane methods of modern civilized warfare. _It is the hypocrisy of it all that makes it so revolting._ And if it were not that so many _are_ making wages or salaries or profits or dividends out of the whole organized scheme of modern warfare, it would be much easier to put an end to it. That is the vital point where the women of the world should strike first if they are to end war.