The day is dawning when the working class will not only shrewdly refuse
to be tricked to the trenches, but will also proudly seize all the
powers of government in defense of the working class. The working class
must defend the working class. The state, the school, the press, the
lecture platform, and even part of the church, all these powerful
institutions, are at present used to fasten and hold the burdens of toil
and the curse of war on the backs of the brutalized and despised
working-class producers and the working-class destroyers.
It is our move, brothers. Have we sense enough for self-defense? See
Chapter Ten: “Now What Shall We Do About It?”
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Footnote 117:
J. H. Rose: _The Development of the European Nations, 1870–1900_, Vol.
II., p. 328.
Footnote 118:
Copied from a Government advertisement in front of recruiting
headquarters in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1907. Italics
mine. G. R. K. This same form of advertisement has also been used in
many other cities.
Footnote 119:
“Lecture on War.”
Footnote 120:
See Bloch: _Future of War_, Preface XXXII.
Footnote 121:
See Charles Seignobos: _The Political History of Europe Since 1815_,
p. 504.
Footnote 122:
See Brodrick and Frotheringham: _The Political History of England_,
Vol. XI., p. 172, et seq.
Footnote 123:
_Work and Wages_, p. 507.
Footnote 124:
Jephson: _The Platform—Its Rise and Progress_, Vol. I., p. 283.
Footnote 125:
_History of the English People_, Vol. IV., p. 377.
Footnote 126:
_A Student’s History of England_, pp. 877–80.
Footnote 127:
_The Political History of England_, Vol. XI., Ch. 8.
Footnote 128:
_Sir Robert Peel_, Ch. 3.
Footnote 129:
_The English Constitution_, p. 423. Italics mine. G. R. K.
Footnote 130:
See, for example, J. F. Bright: _A History of England_, Period III.,
p. 1352.
Footnote 131:
_Arbeiter in Council_, p. 501.
Footnote 132:
_Bourienne’s Memoirs_, Vol. VII., c. 20. Reference in _Arbeiter in
Council_, p. 499. For cases equally monstrous in the American Civil
War history, see Myers’ _History of Great American Fortunes_, Vol.
II., pp. 127–38, 291–301; Chapters 11 and 12; Vol. III., pp. 160–176.
Footnote 133:
_History of the American People_, Vol. III., p. 120.
Footnote 134:
_A History of the American People_, p. 556.
Footnote 135:
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