As to “limited armaments”—whether the swords are long or short, the working class more and more clearly see that you intend that the working class shall continue to do all the fighting in case of war. =A Special Challenge to the Hague Peace Society:= That all delegates to the Conferences shall discuss, not the problems of “disarmament,” but (1) the problem of striking the bands from the wrists of the wage-slaves; (2) the artificial arbitrary restriction placed upon the consuming power of the wage-earners, out of which fact grows the imminent world-struggle for the “world-market.” =A Second Special Challenge to the Hague Peace Society:= That the Society shall frankly announce in all its Conferences, in all its Reports, in all its leaflets, in all its lectures and sermons, that the Socialist Party’s method of preventing war is to frankly and loudly WARN THE VICTIMS OF WAR, the working class, just what war always means to the working class; and that this method has succeeded in preventing two wars in recent years in cases where the Hague Peace Society was powerless. =A Third Special Challenge to the Hague Peace Society:= That the Society shall explain why the Capitalist masters of the Hague Peace Society will not _permit_ their vassals in the Conferences to accept the Second Challenge. [Illustration: THE BENEFICIARIES OF HELL, FLIRTING WITH “HEAVEN”] The author of WAR—WHAT FOR?, in the summer of 1910, attended a National Peace Conference in New York City. The Conference was attended by some of the most distinguished peace-wishers in the United States, including capitalists, orators and college professors. The author was given the floor to address the Convention. Everything went well until the author began to urge that all who want peace should make every possible effort to WARN THE VICTIMS of war, the working class, of what war means to the working class. Instantly there was manifest discomfort all through the audience, and very soon the chairman left his seat, came close to the speaker and urged that the speech be concluded at once. No other speaker was thus interrupted. [Illustration] ----- Footnote 182: Charles Seignobos: _Political History of Europe Since 1815_, p. 819. Footnote 183: Similar practice was common in our Civil War. Footnote 184: But see Index: “Four Historic Events.” Footnote 185: May 21, 1909. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 186: Report of the United States Pullman Strike Commission: Carroll D. Wright, Chairman. Footnote 187: See Chapter Ten on “What Shall We Do About It?” Footnote 188: See article by Labor Commissioner C. D. Wright: _North American Review_, June, 1902; also R. T. Ely: _Outlines of Economics_, Edition of 1908, pp. 397–98. Footnote 189: _International Journal of Ethics_, April, 1908. Footnote 190: C. D. Wright: _Practical Sociology_, p. 38. Footnote 191: