With conscience “seared as with a hot iron” the preacher joins the politician; and the precious pair unite their rented voices in patriotic melody in support of the capitalist class. Brother,—you of the working class,—Jew, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Protestant, peaceful Buddhist or peaceful Confucian, or what else,—wherever you are, whatever you are in religion, worshipping, searching, groping through the universe for God, worship as you prefer, worship whom you prefer: I do not seek to break your church allegiance. But, sir, to save your life, to save your own wife’s tears, to defend your own children, to protect your own working class, I do wish to have you realize _distinctly_ that:— _The working class must draw the bayonet from its own breast._ So far as _war_ is concerned the working class must band together and stand together against war. The working class must themselves protect the working class against the industrial system through which they are _robbed and betrayed_. The workers of the world need a political party of their own class—and as wide as the world, International, and committed to _justice and therefore to peace._ Listen to the confession of the editor of a very powerful capitalist newspaper: “It is significant that the Socialists of different races, and speaking different tongues, strangers in blood and customs, in Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria, and Italy, constitute the _one great peace party of the world_.”[299] Listen again—to the best-known and the best loved Christian woman in the United States, Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago:[300] “The Socialists are making almost the sole attempt to preach a morality _sufficiently all-embracing and international_ to keep pace with even the material internationalism which has standardized [even] the threads of screws and the size of bolts, so that machines become interchangeable from one country to another.... Existing commerce has long ago reached its international stage, but it has been the result of business aggression and constantly appeals for military defense and for the forcing of new markets.” You, you who are to be tricked and shot at the factory door and on the battlefield, go to your public library and get _Christianity and the Social Order_, and read there the words of a preacher great enough for the City Temple of London, great enough to be the worthy successor of the world-known Joseph Parker, read the Reverend Dr. R. J. Campbell’s splendid tribute to the Socialist Party as the only political party in the world today scorning the belittling jealousies of capitalist statesmen and working effectively for international brotherhood. Reader, you working class reader, a special word here: