Perhaps your working class neighbor’s son is at this moment falling into a patriotic trance, gullibly planning to join the local militia or the standing army or the navy, meditating on butcheries. Go to him. With a firm grasp on his mind (if he has one) wake him, rouse him, from that race-cursing dream, rouse him from the spell that for thousands of years has damned his class. Be kind. Be patient. But—wake him. Wake him for the _world_ movement for the _working_ class. _Wake him for the war_—the war without a sword, the war without a cannon; the war with a printing press, the war with a book. _Teach him that salvation is through information._ Teach him that the “truth will make him free.” In his brain kindle a fire, a divine unrest, a desire that can not die, the desire for peace born of justice. Otherwise, beware lest your neighbor’s son be wheedled at any moment into the militia or the standing army or the navy—_ready_ to be consecrated, sanctified, blessed,—for wholesale assassination, _ready_ as a militiaman, as a Cossack, as a soldier, to stain his consecrated sword with the blood of his neighbors and brutally—patriotically—laugh at the tears of women and children. Read to your neighbor the next Chapter: “Now, What Shall We Do About It?” ----- Footnote 285: See Chapter Four, Section Two, “The Cost of War in Cash.” Footnote 286: “Documents of the American Association for International Conciliation,” 1907–08. Footnote 287: See Chapter Eight, Section 13 and 14. Footnote 288: It is mildly encouraging to reflect that very heavy and very general international investments in national and industrial bonds would have at least some tendency to dampen the bond-buying capitalists’ enthusiasm for war; because, in some cases, a disastrous war might result in the repudiation of bonds and, in most cases, might easily result in a great temporary reduction of dividends from industrial investments. Another thing to be noted here is that sometimes the investors in the bonds of an unstable nation about to go to war, may regret the threatening war and urge against it and even decline to buy war bonds, _before the war is declared_, in order to protect their investments already made. But after the war is once entered upon these same regretful investors feel almost compelled to purchase the new issue of war-bonds in order to make victory more certain for the nation whose bonds they already hold, and thus protect the market value of their original investments. French investors in Russian bonds and enterprises to the extent of more than a billion dollars found themselves in this predicament in the case of the recent Russian-Japanese war. See Index: “Bankruptcy, Danger of.” Footnote 289: See Chapter Seven, Section 17. Footnote 290: Swinburne: “A Word for the Country.” Footnote 291: See Index: “The Hague Peace Conference.” Footnote 292: See Chapter Four, Section One. Footnote 293: