War—What For?

by George R. Kirkpatrick

INDEX.

• Abuse of Soldiers, [191]–199, [219]–223
• Advertisements for Soldiers, [108], [199]–201, [293]
• Aggression and Robbery, Social, [273]–337
• Airships, Dirigible, [90]
• “All War, Civil War,” [264]
• “American Brigadier, The,” Church Militarism, [230] et seq.
• American Civil War, [139]
• American Civil War, Cash Cost of, [55]–58
• American Revolutionists, Resistance by Force, [292]
• American Revolutionary War, Betrayal of Working-Class Soldiers in, [117]–118
• Anarchists, Capitalists as, [295]–296, [303]
• Andreief, Leonid,—“The Red Laugh”, [18]–19, [83]
• Another War, [30]–43, [97], [154]–158, [207], [217], [265], [284], [287], [289]–290, [312]–316, [333]–334,
• Antagonism in Present Social Structure, [273]–337
• Antagonism—Mutualism—in the Social Structure, [281] et seq.
• Antagonism—Second Possible Plan of Social Organization, [282]
• Antagonism, Social, Basis of, [282]
• Anti-patriotism of George Washington, [217]–218
• Arbitration, [202]–206, [308]–309
• Arbitration, “Nothing to Arbitrate,” [166]–167
• Aristocrats, Roman, Avoiding Infantry, [22]
• Armed Guard, Rapidly Increasing, Necessity of, New Danger, [42], [164]–174
• “Arm Everybody or Nobody,” [175]
• Arms, Defective, Provided Union Soldiers, [139]
• Arms, Modern, Improved, [77]–97
• Arms, Rapid Improvement of, [26]
• Arms, Right to Bear, [175]
• Army, Composed of Working-Class, General Army Staff Quoted, [10]
• “Army, the Poor Man’s University,” [176]
• Bankruptcy, [64]–73
• Barry, Richard, [82]–83, [88]
• Battles in Industry Compared With Battle in War, [164]
• Bayonet, a Stinger, [12]
• Births Prevented by Life in Military Service, [48]
• Block, J., [49], [56], [75], [80], [85], [89], [109]
• Blood Cost of War, in General, [47]–54;
  • in Manchuria, [145]
• Blood Lust, Fostering of, in Children, [213] et seq.
• Boer War, [32], [67], [93], [181] et seq.
• Bond Leech, International, [146]–148
• “Boys in Blue,” The, [118] et seq.
• “Boy Scout” Movement, The, [228]–233
• British Government, Its Betrayal of Soldiers in Napoleonic Wars and in the Boer War, [110]–118
• Brutality of Soldiers, [180] et seq.
• Bryan, W. J., [21]
  • In Cuban War, [178]–179
  • Sons of, [157]
• Bullets, Dumdum, [204]–205
• Business and Government in Impending War, [156]–157
• “Business Is Business,” [244]–272
• Caesar’s Victories, [105]
• Capitalism, [30]–46, [283] et seq.
• Capitalism, Destruction of, [291] et seq.
• Capitalism, Peace Impossible Under, [286]–289
• “Capital Produces Nothing,” [284]–285
• Canned Beef for Soldiers, [137]–144
• Cannibals, “Civilized,” [144]–148
• Carlyle, Thomas, on the “Brave Boys,” [189]–190
• Carnegie, Andrew, [289]
• Carnegie Steel Company, Patriotism of, [289]
• Cause of War, Chap. Three, Six, Ten, Eleven
• Challenge to Hague Peace Society, [206] et seq.
• Chattel Slave, Protection of, [97]–99
• Chattel Slavery, [282] et seq.
• Children, [207]–243, [338]–339
• Chinese Export Trade, [156]–157
• Christ, [21], [52], [144] et seq., [184], [226]–278, [244], [259]–260
• Characterization of, [260]–261
• Christian Governments in the Rôle of Procurers, [220]–223
• “Christianized” War, [52]
• Church, The, and War, [244]–272
  • Defense of Chattel Slavery, Serfdom and Capitalism, [256] et seq.
  • Training Children for Strikes and War, [228]–232
• “Civil War, All War Is,” [264]
• Civil War, American, [54]–58, [100]–101, [118]–124
• Civil War—in Industry, [37]–46, [168]–174
  • Origin and Perpetuation of, [318]–37
    • See also Chapter Ten
• Classes—Industrial, [274] et seq.
• Classes—Industrial, Property as Basis of, Professors Bluntschli and Fairbanks, [275]–276
• Classes, Social—What Creates, [286]
  • See Civil War in Industry.
• Class Interests—Clash of, [29]–46, [273]–337
• Class War, Raging Around Unsocialized Industrial Property, [167] et seq.
  • See Civil War in Industry.
• Clergy and War, The, [228]–234, [244]–272
• Clews, Henry, [121]–124, [285]
• Commander-in-Chief, Insult From, [10]
• “Come On! or Go Ahead!”, [107]
• Commerce Develops into Militarism, [29]–46, [137]–158
• Competition and War, [40]
  • Laborers Relieved of, by War, [188]
• Conciliation, See Arbitration.
• Conscription, in Caesar’s Time, [22], [77], [152]
  • For Napoleon’s Armies, [104]–05
• Conservatives, Liberals, [173]–174
• Constabulary, The State, [148]–153, [170]–175
• Corruption of Soldier Youths, Taft, Dickinson, Jordan, Col. Van Rensselaer, General Sherman and others, [219]–227
• Cossack, The American, See Constabulary.
• Cost of War, in Blood 100 years following 1789, total, [50]
• Cost in Cash, of War, [54] et seq.
  • In Manchuria, [145]
• Cost of War in Cash, [54]–76
• Credit Mobilier, [124]–137
• Crosby, Ernest, [237]
• “Cross, Cannon, and Cash Register,” [244]–272
• Cruelty of Soldiers, [180] et seq.
• Cuban War, [32], [94], [137]–144
• Cyclone of Dynamite, etc., on Battlefield, [89]–90
• Debts, War, [47], [54]–76
• Decadence, Physical, [45]–54, [92]–106
• Declamations for Children, [237] et seq.
• Declaration of Independence, American, [302]
• Democracy, Increasing, [70], [167]–168, [273]–316, [335]–337
• Deserters, System for Catching, [7], [77], [153], [193], [199]
• Despotism, Foundation, and Historical Forms, of, [282] et seq.
  • Also Chapter Eleven.
• “Dick” Militia Law, The, [161], [170] et seq.
• Disappointment of Young Soldiers, [194] et seq.
• Disarmament, [206] et seq.
• Disease in War, [48], [92]–97, [220]–223
• “Dreadnoughts,” [60]–65
• Dumdum Bullets, [204]–205
• Economic Determinism—Applications and Illustrations of, Chapters Six, Nine, Ten, Eleven
• Education and Militarism, [24]–25, [59]–76
• $8,000,000,000, [69]–74
• Elkins Law, [295]–296
• Employer Class, Interest of, Josiah Strong, [100]
• Enlistment, [77]–86, [97], [102]–103, [107]–109
• Expansion of Capitalism, [34]
• Exemptions, Substitutes, [160]–161, [228]–230
• “Explain!”, [293]–294
• Explosives, Modern, [77]–92
• Father and the Boys, [159] et seq.
• Ferrero, G., on Roosevelt Type of Greatness, [180], [187]
  • On War as a Promoter of Civilization, [185]
• “Fighting Parsons”, [244]–273
• Firing Line, the Industrial, [164]
• Fiske, John, on Evolution of Social Man, [183]
• Fittest, Survival of, in War, [47]–54, [188]–91
• Force, Resistance By, [291]–293
• “Foreigners”, [257]–264
• Foundation of Democracy, [281] et seq.
• Foundations of Society, Privately Owned, [39];
  • See Chapter Ten
• Foreign Markets, [30]–46, [155]–157, [254]–255, [333]–334
• Four Great Events, [306] et seq.
• Franchise, Right of, in America, [117]–118
• Franco-Prussian War, [26], [93], [160]–163, [210]
• Freedom, Evolution of, [334]–337
  • Foundation of, [273]–316
• “Freeing Cuba”, [137]–144
• French Wars of the Revolution, [49]
• Functions, Social—Organization Necessary for, [281]
• Future Wars, See “Another War.”
• Garrison, William Lloyd, on Patriotism, [216]
• “Governments Destroy Nations”, [70]
• Government’s, the Federal, Sneer at the Poverty of the Working Class, [108]–109
• Government, Use of, in Defense of Interests, by Washington and Others, [217]–219;
  • Discussion and Suggestion of, Frequent.
• Habit, Force of in Working Class, [326] et seq.
• Hague Peace Conference, [201]–205, [214], [289]–290
• Hale, Edward Everett, Rebukes Teachers of Blood Lust, [214]
• Harvard University, “Fashionable Cavalry”, [23]
• Hearst (Newspapers), [32]
• Hearst, Mr., Patriotic, [178]
• Hell, [77]–106
• Heroes, [180]–184
• History of Great American Fortunes, Gustavus Myers, [137], [139]
• Humanizing War, [203]–204
• Illinois Central Railway Company, Lands Secured by, [135]–136
• Impending War, See “Another War.”
• Income-Tax and Patriotism, [107]
• Industrial Function—Society Always Organized Primarily with Reference to, [281] et seq.
• Industrial Despotism, Historic Forms and Foundation of, [282] et seq.
• Ingersoll, R. G., [180], [182], [225], [235], [237]–238–241
• Insanity Among Soldiers, [6]–7, [88], [195]
• Institutions, Origin of, Illustrations, [317]–337
• International Citizens, [262]–264
• Japanese-Russian War, [99], [144]
• Jingoism, The Beginning of, [209]–210
• Jordan, President D. S., [104]–105, [198]
• Kidnapping and Militarism, [227]
• Labor Market, See Labor-power.
• Labor-power, Buying and Selling of, [29]–47, [97]–99, [106], [274]–275, [333]–337
• Lad’s Brigade, The, [230] et seq.
• “Land-Grant” Railroads, Land Gifts, etc., [124], [137]
• Law and Order, [6], [321]–322
• Liberals, Conservatives, [173]–174
• Limitation of Armaments, [69]–70;
  • See Hague Peace Society, The.
• Lincoln, President, and the Wall Street Patriots, [118]–137
• Lockouts, Strikes, Statistics of, [168]–169
• “Love of Country”, [217]–219
• “Man on Horseback, The”, [148] et seq.
• Marines, [108], [154]–158, [221]–222
• Markets, See Foreign Markets, and Labor-power.
• Medical Service, U. S. Government’s Criminal Neglect of, Utterly Inadequate, [94]–95, [143]–144
• Meditations of a Workingman, [153] et seq.
• Mexican War, [148]
• “Might Makes Right”, [21]–28, [185]–190
• Militarism, [29]–106;
  • In Public Schools, Chapter Eight.
• Militarism and Education, [59]–76
• Militarism and Kidnapping, [227]
• Militarism in Churches, [228]–233
• Military Tactics, Applied in Politics, [278]–280
• Militia and Army—Rich Men’s Sons in, [160], [176]–177
• Militiamen and Soldiers, [25], [40], [45], [46], [148], [151]–152
• Millionaires in Cuban War, [176]–178
• Ministers and War, [6], [20], [22], [24], [27], [28], [41], [44], [78], [244]–272
• Modern Machinery, Knowledge, Methods, Specially Import Result, [42]
• Moral Decline of Youth in Army, [180]–187, [219]–227
• Morocco-affair, The, [309]
• Moskow Campaign, [104]–105
• Mother—and the Boys and Girls, [207]–243
• Mothers, Special Suggestions for, [236] et seq.
• Murdering Machinery, Modern, [77]–92
• Mutualism—Antagonism in the Social Structure, [281] et seq.
• “My Country is the World, My Countrymen All Mankind”, [216]
• Napoleon, [104]–105, [110]–115, [124], [200], [208]–209, [237]
• Naturalness of Social Parasites’ Behavior, [286] et seq.
• Naval Life, Unnaturalness of and Disastrous Moral Results, [221]–222
• Navy, [58]–59, [69], [108], [191]
• Next War, The—How to Avoid Being Wounded in, [97]
• Non-Combatants, Destruction of, in Time of War, [48]–50
• Non-Resistance, [291] et seq.
• Northern Pacific Railway Company, Land Gifts to, [134]–136
• Norwegian-Swedish War, See “Four Great Events.”
• “No Sentiment in Business”, [244]–272
• Notice, Special, to Hague Peace Society, [206] et seq.
• “Obey or Starve”, [257]–258, [334]–337
• “Off for the Front”, [30]
• “Old Glory,” Abuse of, [150]
• Old Veteran and Young Cossack,, [148] et seq.
• One Christian Century of War, [52]–53
• Opportunity, Equal Basis of, [281]
• “Our Country!”, [218]–219, [225]–226
• Over-production, [37]–42, [333]–335
• Panic of 1907—Regular Soldiers’ Pay Advanced in by Congress, [152]–153
• Parades, Military, Purpose and Results, [199] et seq.
• Parasites, [7], [17], [137], [190]–191, [273]–337
• Parents, Suggestions to, [207]–243
• Patriotism, [227], [196]–197
• Patriotism a Matter of Cash. W. H. Taft and T. Roosevelt, [196]–197
• Patriotism, Capitalist, Specimens of, [107]–158
• Patriotism, Fallacy of False, Exploded by James Mackaye, [217]
• Patriotism, False, Taught to Children, [208] et seq.
• “Patriotism is Killing Spaniards,”, [252]–253
• Patriotism of Buyers of War Bonds, [118]–124
• Patriotism—of George Washington, [217]–218
• Patriotism—Lowell, J. R., on, [217]
• Patriotism, Petty, Interferes With Social Evolution of Child, [213], [215] et seq.
• Patriotism, Professor Paulsen on, [180]
• Patriotism, R. G. Ingersoll on, [180]
• Patriotism, R. W. Emerson on, [217]
• Patriots, Some Petty, [262]–264
• Peaceful Slaughter—in Industry, [97]–106
• Peace Impossible Without Socializing Unity of Interest, [257] et seq., [282] et seq.
• Peace on the Program, [262]–263
• Peace Societies, [201]–205
• Peace, Talk of, but Preparation for War, [154] et seq.
• Peace, The Hague Conference, [201]–205
• Penitentiary for the Rich, [295]–296
• Pensions, [55]–59
  • Industrial Pensions and Military Service Pensions, [163]–165
• Perverted Sex-Appetite in Life at Sea, [221]–222
• Philippines, A Soldier’s Letter from the, [198]
• Philippine War, [99]–101
• Pledge to Working Class, [11]
• Poetry that Poisons, [213], [214]
• Poisoned Arms, A Revolution Produced by, [203]–204
• Political Logic, Elementary, [167] et seq.
• Political Parties—Do Not Create Classes, [286]
• Political Party, Definition of, [304]
• Political Resistance, [293] et seq.
• Politics, Elementary, Chap. Ten.
• Politics, Military Tactics Applied in, [278]–280
• Poverty of Soldiers Following War, [110]–117, [137]–144
• Power, the Road to, [167]–168
• Powers of Government, Necessity of Capturing, [25], [41]–42, [75]–76, [105]–106, [159]–206, [273]–316
• Preachers on the Firing Line, [228]–230
• “Preaching Heaven, Practising Hell”, [230]
• Preparation for War, [34], [54]–76
  • Talk of Peace and Preparation for War, [154]–155
• Press, The, [24], [32], [177]–178, [336]–337, [338]–344
• Prevention of War, [24]–25, [105]–106, [158], [160], [174]–176, [201]–206, [235]–243, Chapters Nine, Ten;
  • “Four Great Events,” pp. [306] et seq.
• Prize-Fighter Statesmanship, [58]–76
• Procurers, Christian Governments as, [220]–223
• Progress Promoted by War, [184] et seq.
• Property Basis of Social Classes—Professors Bluntschli and Fairbanks, [275]–276
• Property Rights, “Sacred”, [39], [322]–325
• Property, Socialized, [167]–168
• Prostitutes Furnished by Christian Governments to Their Soldiers, [219]–223
• Quarters, Soldiers’, [192] et seq.
• Race Suicide, [207]–209
• Rag-Money for “Boys in Blue,”, [119]–120
• Rations—For Soldiers, [191] et seq.
• “Real War, The,” Ruskin, J., [227]
• Rebellion, [69]–70
  • See Washington.
• Recitations, Declamations, Selections from Chapters One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, Nine, Ten. See Suggestions Chapter Twelve.
• Recruiting, [42], [43]
• Recruiting—Devices, [108]
• Red Cross Society, [88]
• “Remembering the Maine,” See “Freeing Cuba.”
• Resistance by all Forms of Power, [292]–294
• Revolution, [300]–303
• Revolutionary War, American, [57]
• Revolutionists, American, [217]–218, [292], [302]–303
• Revolution of Opinion, [152]–153, [187]
• Revolution, Prepare For, [167]–168
• Revolution, Produced by Poisoned Arms, [203]–204
• Rifle Practice Clubs in Public Schools, [233] et seq.
• Rifle Ranges in Public Schools, [210] et seq.
• “Righteous War”, Chapter Nine
• Risks in War—At the Front and in Wall Street. See “Clews.”
  • See also, [163]–164
• Road to Power, The, [167]–168
• Robbery, Institutional, [282] et seq.
• Romans, Decadence of, [105]
• Roosevelt, T., [21], [47], [93], [102], [141]–143, [157], [179]–180, [197], [233], [251]–253
• Rough Riders, The, [140]
• Royal Timber Company, The, [144] et seq.
• Russian-Japanese War, [18]–19, [68]–69, [86]–88, [101], [144] et seq.
• School Children, Deception of, [56]
• Schools, Public, Abuse of, by Militarists, Chapter Eight
• Schools, Use of, to Betray and Poison Children, [213] et seq.
• Sedan, Battle of, [84], [85], [163]
• Senate, U. S., Dignity and Nobility of, [124]–137
• “Sentiment in Business”, [244]–272
• Seven Days’ Battle, [124] et seq.
• Seventh Regiment (N. Y.), The, [176]–177
• “Silence!” The Command of Despotism, [113]–114, [148]
• Silent Destroyer, Disease, The, [92]–97
• Slavery as a Revolution, [318]
• Slavery, Serfdom, Capitalism, Purpose of, [38]
• Socialist Party and War, [68], [270]–272, Chapter Ten, [336]–337
• Social Organization—Mutualism, Antagonism, Two Possible Social Forms, [281] et seq.
• South-African War, [103]
• Spanish-American War, [93], [176]–177
• Special Warning, A, [154] et seq.
• Standing Army, A, [109]–110, [170]–176
• Statesmen, Politicians, in War, [30]
  • Temptations of, [44]
• Strikes, [17]
  • Militiaman’s Cheap Rôle in, [45]–46, [189]4, [165]–166
  • At Iron Mines in Minnesota, [190]7, [166] et seq.
  • “Great Coal Strike”, [148] et seq.
  • Strikes, Lockouts, Statistics of, [168]–169
  • Schoolboys Prepared for Strikes, [233]–235
• Substitutes, Exemptions, [160]–161
• Suggestions, [25], [54], [56], [58], [68], [74]–76, [97], [105]–106, [174]–175, [184], [210]–214, [236] et seq., [293]–294; Chapters Eleven, Twelve
• Suicide, [6]–7, [77], [194] et seq.
• Surgery Applied to Society, [298]–299
• Surplus, [37]–43
• Surplus Products, Embarrassingly large, [254], [255]
• Swedish-Norwegian War, See “Four Great Events”, [306] et seq.
• Taft, W. H., [10], [48], [154]–157, [191] et seq., [195] et seq., [219], [295]–296
• Teachers, School, Their Power to Blast or Develop Social Nature of Child, [209]–216
• Teaching Youths How to Avoid Venereal Disease in Associating With Women (U. S. Government and British Government), [219]–223
• Temptations Frankly Offered by Federal Government, [192] et seq.
• Territorial Force Act (English), “Dick” Law, [173]–174
• The Hague Peace Society, [202] et seq.
• “The War is the Class War”, [37]–46, [286]
• “To Arms! To Arms!”, [13]–17, [289]–291
• “Topics for Discussion”, [159]–243
• Toys, Military, [216]
• “Train Everybody or Nobody”, [175]
• “Trade Follows the Flag”, [36]
• Trust Laws, [295]–296
• Tsar of Russia, and The Hague Peace Conference, [201]–202
• Tyranny Protected by the Flag, Chapter Six, Seventh Illustration, and [148]–153, [164]–165
• “Undesirable Citizens,” Soldiers as, W. H. Taft, [195] et seq., [260]–262
• Unemployed, The, [42], [152]–153
• Union Pacific Railway Charter, [124]–137
• Universal Military Service, Chapter Seven (3), (11), (12)
• Venereal Diseases, [48], [49], [219]–223
• “Vision of the Future,” Ingersoll’s, [242]
• “Vision of War,” Ingersoll’s, [240]–241
• Volunteers, [77]
• Wage-System, See Labor-power, Buying and Selling of.
• Wall Street Patriots, [118]–124
• Walsh, Dr. Walter, [147], [182], [199], [210], [222]–223, [266] et seq.
• “War a Collision of Interests,” General Von der Goltz, [170]
• War and Industry, Comparative Destruction of Life in, [77]–92
• War, and the Survival of the Fittest, [188]
• War and Women, [207]–243
• War as Hell, Chap. Five, [160], [289]–291
• War as a Relief to Competition Among Laborers, [188]
• War as a System of Exploitation, Ferrero, [187]
• War, Comment on, [160]
• War, Definition of, [21]
• Ward, Lester F., [38], [183], [284], [292], [328]
• War, Explanation of, Motives and Occasions of, Chaps. Three, Six, Ten, Eleven
• “War is Hell”, [159]–160
• War Necessary to Progress, [184] et seq.
• War, Origin of, [317]–337
• Warning, Special, [14], [17], [154]–158, [288]–290, [311]–316
• “War” Statesmen, Popularity of, [44]
• War—The Class Struggle, [286] et seq.;
  • See Classes
• War, The Next, See “Another War.”
• War, What is Determined By, [21]–28, [185]–188
• War—What to Do About It, [159]–243, [273]–316; passim
• War, Who Want, Who Declare, Who Fight, [29] et seq.
• Washington, Anti-Patriot, [217]–218
  • Letter to John Bannister on Patriotism, [148]
• Waterloo, Battle of, [110]–111
• “Welcome Home!”, [107]–158
• “Wintering” in the Army, [153]
• Women and War, [18], [26], [207]–243
• Working Class, Self-Defense of, [1]–344
• Wounded, the Difficulties in Attending to in Modern War, [94]
• “Young Men Not Only Willing but Anxious to Fight,” Origin of Saying, [47]
• Youth, Conscription of, for Napoleon’s Armies, [104]–105
• Zeppelin’s, Count, Airship, [90]
• Zola, Emile, The Downfall, [26], [83], [211]–212

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“Dear Mr. Kirkpatrick:

“I know you will be more than gratified to hear that your invaluable book, WAR—WHAT FOR? is fulfilling its mission among the farmers in this section.

“Over four months ago a farmer called and asked me if I had anything to place in the hands of a boy which would ‘take the Army Bug out of his head.’ The boy was about to join the Regular Army. His mother and father had appealed to him—had tried to talk the idea out of the boy’s mind.

“On my table was a copy of WAR—WHAT FOR? I said, ‘Here is a book that will sterilize the love for murder instinct.’ A week later he called and informed me that the boy had read the book and now it is ‘No Army for me!’

“Both parents also read the book. It has been going the rounds among the farmers ever since. Each week Mr. Marquis calls and asks to extend the loan of your book. He says that some farmers stay up all night reading its contents. Parents are thanking Marquis, with tears in their eyes, for placing the book in their hands.

“So far as I can learn, no farmer boy in this section has joined the Army since WAR—WHAT FOR? found its way into the farm houses.... I hear the work is never laid aside, but having been read by someone, in a few days it is in the hands of a new reader....

(Signed) “Fraternally, E. H. Gohl.”

COMMENT

The Springfield, Mass., Republican (over half column review): “... Brimful of indictment of war ... a valuable book.... Much startling information which ought to be widely disseminated. Peace advocates might well have Mr. Kirkpatrick’s book in their knapsacks. The book is crowded with facts and figures, official reports and other authoritative documents being freely quoted....”

The Chicago Evening Post (two-thirds column review):—“But it [War—What For?] is, in fact, exquisitely designed to capture the interest and win the belief; it is as well calculated to impress its readers as Paine’s ‘Rights of Man.’”

The Louisville, Kentucky, Herald also frankly ranks WAR—WHAT FOR? equal to Paine’s Rights of Man in its power to impress its readers.

Charles Edward Russell, well known to a million readers of Everybody’s Magazine: “... The most powerful blow ever dealt against the insanity of militarism. A remarkable book. No one can escape the logic of its massed-up facts.”

New York American (review by Mr. Edwin Markham, poet): “... He tatters all the shibboleths that influence men to go to war. He masses his facts in a cumulative horror.... His style is telegraphic ... breathless; and he certainly makes a black case against militarism....”

The Progressive Journal of Education: “Here is a book certainly worth while. It is unique—something that stands wholly in a class by itself.... The array of facts ... concerning war, here gathered together, is something more than remarkable....”

The Trenton, New Jersey, Sunday Advertiser: “... A remarkable book on the futility, the brutality and the criminality of war....”

The St. Louis Post-Despatch (editorial on WAR—WHAT FOR?): “... the forces now working for universal peace—to mention but one, there is George R. Kirkpatrick, an American, who has written a book entitled WAR—WHAT FOR? which appears to be making a genuine sensation.... It is well illustrated, is stuffed full of facts and figures.... The jingos of the world will have to get busy and meet thought with thought, and fact with fact.”

The New York Independent: “... The volume shows evidence of much study and research, and certainly makes interesting reading....”

The Religious Telescope: “WAR—WHAT FOR? is a remarkable book no matter how you take it. The logic of its mass of facts furnishes food for reflection; trenchant discussion of the war question, ... burning vigor, biting sarcasm, ... gruesome illustrations and hideous word pictures—simply command attention and get it. The author ... intensifies every aspect of woe attaching to every phase of militarism, which it knocks down and out.... It is a strange and striking book and you cannot pooh-pooh it....”

The Platform, Chicago (full column editorial review): “... If at this moment we had the power to put one book into the hands of each man, woman and child on earth, that book would be WAR—WHAT FOR?... The most powerful, convincing and humane book that has ever fallen into ye editor’s hands....”

Upton Sinclair, Author of the Jungle: “... Take my advice about this book and get it ... a most extraordinary book ... a perfect cyclopedia of ... material, the most effective material that can be imagined, and presented with extraordinary fire and conviction....”

Rev. Peter Molyneaux, Pastor of First Unitarian Church, Wheeling, W. Va.: “Let me thank you for writing WAR—WHAT FOR?... The spirit of a toiling, suffering, upward struggling humanity speaks from its pages.”

Eugene V. Debs: “... This wonderful book—the book of an epoch, an immortal achievement. WAR—WHAT FOR? has set fire to all the blood in my veins....”

Timothy Walsh, Assistant Financial Editor of the New York World: “A book that should be in the hands of every parent in the land....”

Appeal to Reason: “... It is the most scathing indictment of war, and the most terrible impeachment of the powers and personalities responsible for war ever written....”

St. Louis Labor: “A powerful indictment of war....”

International Socialist Review: “This book is a denunciation, an exposition, a revelation and a terrible indictment of war ... a wealth of data....”

Rev. J. Alexander Cairns, D.D., Newark, N. J.: “... A masterpiece.... This book is worthy the struggle and toil of a lifetime....”

Circulars free to names and addresses furnished.

IT IS UP TO THE GOVERNMENT!

Karl Liebknecht was recently imprisoned for eighteen months by the German government as punishment for writing his book against the brutalities, stupidities, and villainies of war and militarism.

Gustave Hervé is now serving a four-year sentence in a French prison for writing his book on the same subject.

Just what there is in store, in this line, for the author of WAR—WHAT FOR? he does not know. He has at least had plenty of hints, suggestions, warnings and veiled threats of dire things, but just as long as there is an intelligent degree of popular appreciation of the three great rights mentioned on page [350] of this book, and as long also as working men—inside and outside the Army—give the author plenty of assurance, as they do, that in their judgment this book is manifestly written in fraternal sincerity to protect them and those they love,—these hints and warnings will be accepted as simply too ridiculous to be interesting.

The author of WAR—WHAT FOR? is neither inviting, nor avoiding, nor expecting, nor afraid of persecution on account of this book. We have the facts and we also have the three great rights of discussion.

NOTICE TO AGENTS!

WAR—WHAT FOR? is, at the present time, the bestselling, non-fiction, cloth-bound book in American revolutionary literature. In selling WAR—WHAT FOR? stick to the facts. The burning facts in the book sell the book. Present the facts to parents. Present the facts to the boys. Present the facts to organized and unorganized workers. Present the facts to farmers. Present the facts to professional people. Present simply a few of the many facts to be easily found in the book—and the book will sell itself.

BE YOUR OWN EMPLOYER!

There are about 2,700 counties in the United States where a great number of employed and unemployed persons could employ themselves selling WAR—WHAT FOR?

A book that defends the working class and is at the same time thoroughly suitable as a book for solicitors—such a book presents a very unusual opportunity for those who wish to feel safe while they fight for a living and for freedom.

Send for Agents’ Rates, Circulars and Suggestions—not only for yourself, but also for two or three friends.

Address: The Publisher of WAR—WHAT FOR?

West La Fayette, Ohio. Care of J. M. K.

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