The fact is, my friend, the “cold shoulder” from superior officers, and cold victuals, cold tents, cold lead, cold steel, and a puny fifteen or twenty dollars per month for murdering and being murdered—and the cold, cold ground for their own cold corpses—with infinite heartache, sighs, sobs, tears, and loneliness for their own dear ones—these things have no attraction for the shrewd men who profit by war and the crafty men who declare war. Capitalist statesmen—that is, small men with big manners—politicians of the capitalist class, politicians financed by and for the capitalist class—these all band together, stand together. The capitalist “_reformer_” always stands for CAPITALISM—tho’ he is willing to spray it heavily with perfume. These are CLASS loyal. They manipulate all the powers of government—including the department of war—in defence of the capitalist CLASS. They even hire working men—with rifles. (C)—THE WORKING MEN FIGHT THE WAR: Because they are meek and modest and humble and docile, and are always gullibly ready to obediently do whatever their crafty political and industrial masters order them to do. So, whenever the capitalists want war and the politicians declare war, the flimflammed, bamboozled _working_ man straps on a knapsack, shoulders a rifle (or takes a policeman’s club), kisses his wife and children good-bye, and marches away to fight a war _he_ didn’t want, a war _he_ didn’t declare, a war that belittles and wrongs _him_ by injuring _his class_,—and marches away to butcher _other_ working men whom he _doesn’t know_ and against whom he _has no quarrel_. He yells, kills, and slaughters—because—simply because—because—some crafty crooks, called “prominent people,” _tell_ him to do so. He screams and gets slain, he yells and gets slaughtered—simply because he _does not understand_ the sly, devilish trick that is thus being played upon him and his class. Young working men are shrewdly flattered into joining the militia and the army in order to help the capitalist class _force the working class to keep still and starve_; or accept _cheap_ food, _cheap_ clothing, _cheap_ shelter and _cheap_ furniture as _all_ of their share for _all_ their work for _all_ their lives.