The author of WAR—WHAT FOR?, in the summer of 1910, attended a National Peace Conference in New York City. The Conference was attended by some of the most distinguished peace-wishers in the United States, including capitalists, orators and college professors. The author was given the floor to address the Convention. Everything went well until the author began to urge that all who want peace should make every possible effort to WARN THE VICTIMS of war, the working class, of what war means to the working class. Instantly there was manifest discomfort all through the audience, and very soon the chairman left his seat, came close to the speaker and urged that the speech be concluded at once. No other speaker was thus interrupted.
CHAPTER EIGHT.
For Mother and the Boys and Girls.
Topics for consideration, especially by the mothers in the working class.[[241]]
(1) “Will there be, indeed, more wars?”
Yes, undoubtedly.[[242]]
“What shall be done about it?”
There are two things to be done, by the mother, right away: Think about war and talk about war with other mothers and the boys—also with the girls.
Let us see:
In the next war whose sons shall be shot?