CONTENTS.

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Preface[5]
Ready[9]
An Insult from the Commander-in-Chief[10]
Chapter One: A Confidential Word with the Man of the Working Class[11]
Chapter Two: What Is War?[21]
Chapter Three: The Situation—Also the Explanation[29]
Chapter Four: The Cost of War—(1) In Blood, (2) In Cash[47]
Chapter Five: Hell[77]
Chapter Six: Tricked to the Trenches—Then Snubbed[107]
Chapter Seven: For Father and the Boys[159]
Chapter Eight: For Mother and the Boys—and Girls[207]
Chapter Nine: The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash Register[244]
Chapter Ten: Now What Shall We Do About It?[273]
Chapter Eleven: A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class[317]
Chapter Twelve: Suggestions—and What to Read[338]
Illustrations:
Industrial Despotism, Craftily Called Freedom[Frontispiece]
Leading Citizens—“We Want Wars”[31]
Leading Citizens—“We Declare Wars”[33]
Citizens Who Are Led—“We Fight the Wars”[35]
Hired HandsFacing p. [46]
Worn-Out Boxing Gloves of the Ruling Class[51]
The History of Ignorance and Meekness[53]
The War Is the Class War[169]
The Beneficiaries of Hell, Flirting with HeavenFacing p. [206]
The Noble Rôle of Cossacks and MilitiamenFacing p. [207]
Preparing Boy-Scout Hired HandsFacing p. [220]
Four Victims of Cheap Patriotism[241]
In My Name! After Nineteen Hundred Years![245]