Use these powers of government—in self-defense. Great working class multitude, great meek majority! Stand erect in your vast class might and become—authority. The working class must themselves defend the working class. “Do not expect your chains to forge themselves into the key of freedom.” Begin. Begin now. Begin a campaign to capture the brain of your working class neighbor for the grand new Movement for the Freedom of the Working Class. Do something. Be Somebody. Help conquer in our day. War costs. Meekness costs—costs the working class its labor, its blood and tears, its happiness—its Life. Let us defend ourselves—AS A CLASS. ----- Footnote 25: Biglow Papers. Footnote 26: Lecture on Voltaire. Footnote 27: “I want for soldiers young men not only willing but _anxious_ to fight,”—that foul and savage saying is one of the choice mouthings of Theodore Roosevelt, in a public address in which that cheap, distinguished and much flattered Noise disgraced the office of President of the American “Republic.” Footnote 28: See Chapter Five, Section Two; Chapter Eight, Section 11; also Index: “Disease in the Army.” Footnote 29: Chatterton-Hill: _Heredity and Selection in Sociology_, pp. 320–22. Footnote 30: Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1907, p. 17. Footnote 31: Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1909, p. 17. Emphasis mine. G. R. K. Footnote 32: Quoted by Elbert Hubbard in _Health and Wealth_. See _New Age_, Aug. 5, 1909. Footnote 33: See also President D. S. Jordan’s brilliant sociological studies of war, references in Chapter XII. of present volume. Of some interest are Victor Hugo’s estimates in _William Shakespeare_, Part Third, Book III., Chapter I. Footnote 34: Chatterton-Hill in _Heredity and Selection in Sociology_ makes the total 21,000,000. Footnote 35: See Galey: _Classic Myths of English Literature_, pp. 57–8. Footnote 36: Restelle: _Arena_, October, 1906. Footnote 37: “In round numbers ... so that it is safe to say that more than 700,000 men were killed in the war.”—Professor MacMaster: _School History of the United States_, p. 422. See Index: “Non-combatants.” Footnote 38: See quotation from Preface of Bloch’s _Future of War_ near close of present chapter. Footnote 39: _Financial History of the United States_, Vol. III., p. 241. Footnote 40: _Arena_, Jan., 1897. Footnote 41: The appropriations for the Navy alone in 1910 are $134,000,000,—which amount is just ten times as great as in 1886. The New York _World’s_ estimate (editorial, March, 1910) is $500,000,000 as the annual cost of militarism in the United States. Footnote 42: _The Contemporary Review_, August, 1909. Footnote 43: New York _World_, March 1, 1910. See also _The World_, February 1, 1910. Footnote 44: See Report of Commissioner of Education, 1908, Vol. II., p. 617. Footnote 45: