War—What For?
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INDUSTRIAL DESPOTISM, SHREWDLY CALLED FREEDOM. /
(Illustrating the Wage-Earner’s “Freedom of Contract.”)
GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK
“The cannon’s prey has begun to think, and, thinking twice, loses its admiration for being made a target.”— Victor Hugo.
“A nod from a lord is a breakfast—for a fool.”— Proverb.
“The poor souls for whom this hungry war opens its vast jaws.”— William Shakespeare.
First Edition, August, 1910.
Second Edition, October, 1910.
Third Edition, December, 1910.
Fourth Edition, April, 1911.
George R. Kirkpatrick
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WAR—WHAT FOR?
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION:
Ready.
An Insult from the Commander=in=Chief:
Capitalists—“Captains of Industry”—“Leading Citizens”:—
Statesmen—Politicians—“Leading Citizens”:—
Working Class Brothers—Off for the Front—To Kill “the Enemy,” Their Working Class Brothers:
SECTION I: THE COST IN BLOOD.
SECTION II: THE COST IN CASH.
Section one: Modern murdering machinery.
Section two: The silent destroyer—disease.
Section three: Peaceful slaughter—in industry.
First Illustration: The English in the Napoleonic Wars, and in the Boer War.
Second Illustration: The American Working Class Revolutionists:
Third Illustration: The American Civil War—The Bankers and “Promoters”—and the Boys in Blue:
Fourth Illustration: The Seven Days’ Battle—The “Brainy” Promoters and the Boys in Blue:
Fifth Illustration: “Freeing Cuba”—“Remembering the Maine.”
Sixth Illustration: Standing at attention for civilized cannibals:
A Workingman’s Meditations: “We Appreciate It.”
A special warning to the working class of the United States:
The Plan of Rational Mutualism:
INDEX.
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