They sneered at the frowns of their commanders. Proudly and promptly they refused to butcher and be butchered.[328] That settled it. There was no war. There can not be war unless the working class agree to it. No working men were butchered, and the international misunderstanding had to be settled without opening the blood vessels of the toilers. For of course you know, reader, that the broadclothed capitalist snobs of these countries were too cowardly to fight the war themselves. And now there are many more happy homes, happy wives, happy mothers and happy children in Norway and Sweden than there would have been if the humble working people of these two countries had permitted a precious lot of gilt-edged cowards to excite them and confuse them and then “sic” them at one another’s throats. FOURTH EVENT: Very recently, in 1906–7, the Socialist Party in Germany and France prevented war between Germany and France over the “Morocco affair.” This is admitted even by distinguished European enemies of the Socialist Party. This threatened war might easily have cost five hundred thousand lives—working-class lives—and five billions of treasure and desolated hundreds of thousands of homes and darkened both countries with an international hatred lasting half a century. But the Socialists blocked the game. Again and again in their International Congresses the Socialists have protested against war and militarism as being, for the working class, nothing but a burden and a curse.[329] Political masters and industrial masters on all the earth—_these_ recognize the Socialist Party as the Working-Class Political Party.[330] You, my brother, should also recognize the Socialist Party as your own Working-Class Political Party. Reread propositions numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, p. 300. The outline of industrial reconstruction there given in the six propositions is the outline of the constructive platform and program of the working-class political party, the Socialist Party, everywhere.[331] Because the Socialist Party recognizes and points out the clash of class interests in the present class-labor system; Because the Socialist Party proposes industrial freedom for the working class; Because the Socialist Party proposes the destruction of the class-labor system called capitalism; Because the Socialist Party proposes that every person who renders useful social service shall have the value of his service—undiminished by the modern legalized forms of filching, namely, rent, interest and profits; Because the Socialist Party proposes that the working class band together and save themselves; For such reasons the Socialist Party is the Political Party of the Working Class. The Socialists urge: That no longer shall the workers whimper for the protecting wings of that strange political bird, that large male angel, called a “good man”;