The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Let the People Vote on War

By Allen L. Benson

(American Socialist writer, born 1871)

Each voter should sign his or her name to the ballot that is voted. In counting, the ballots for war should be kept apart from the ballots against war. In the event of more than half of the population voting for war, those who voted for war should be sent to the front in the order in which they appeared at their respective polling places. Nobody who voted against war should be called to serve until everybody who voted for war had been sent to the front.

WAR

ARNOLD BÖCKLIN

(German painter, 1827-1901. Painting in the Dresden Gallery)

LONDON
PAUL GUSTAVE DORÉ
French illustrator, 1833-1883.
(His pictures for Dante’s “Inferno” are well known)