A private, writing from the Philippines, in _Everybody’s Magazine_, April, 1908. Footnote 232: _Imperial Democracy_, p. 272. Footnote 233: _The Moral Damage of War_, pp. 150–51. Footnote 234: Quoted by Professor E. A. Ross, in his _Social Control_, p. 89. Footnote 235: See Chapter Eight: “For Mother and the Boys,” Section 1. Footnote 236: See Index: “Bankruptcy, Danger of.” Footnote 237: _The International_, July, 1908. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 238: _Documents of the American Association for International Conciliation_, 1907–08, p. 22. Footnote 239: See _The Peace Conference at The Hague_, pp. 93–120, and 151. Footnote 240: _Harper’s Magazine_, Vol. 87. See International Conciliation—Documents of the American Association for International Conciliation, 1907–08: Third Paper—“A League of Peace.” CHAPTER EIGHT. For Mother and the Boys and Girls. Topics for consideration, especially by the mothers in the working class.[241] (=1=) “Will there be, indeed, more wars?” Yes, undoubtedly.[242] “What shall be done about it?” There are two things to be done, by the mother, right away: Think about war and talk about war with other mothers and the boys—also with the girls. Let us see: In the next war whose sons shall be shot? The aristocrat’s wife is not worrying about whose children are to be destroyed in the next war. She knows already that her sons will not be destroyed in battle; her sons will not stand before Gatling guns; her sons will not be torn and lie bleeding, groaning, screaming and cursing on the steel-swept battlefield by day or through the long night; her sons will not fester and sicken and die in dismal battlefield hospitals; she knows that her sons will not be pitched into nameless trenches—buried like dogs; her flesh and blood, her slain sons, will not be brought home to mock her aching heart. That is settled—positively. She belongs to the _ruling_ class. The ruling class protect her and the men and boys she loves—loyally. But the working class mother—the humble mother of wage-slaves—she feels no such security. Herod and Mars invade her home to steal the men and boys she loves. The rude fist of war is ever ready to crush her. This humble woman is wholly unprotected against war by the ruling class. She is also unprotected against war by the voting men of her own class. This woman must protect herself—for the present.