And there is always a “national crisis” imminent when greater markets must be had and new territory is to be scrambled for by the capitalists of the world.
Whenever there is a “crisis on,” whenever the cash-register captains, the politicians and unsocial “spiritual leaders” believe, or announce, that there is a “crisis upon us,”—at such times Christ, the peaceful, nobly social Christ, is thrust to the rear of the stage and forced to be silent, while the “fighting parsons” and the politicians and the money-mongers and some glory-hunting buccaneers rush to the front of the stage and scream for war—a “patriotic war.”
And more and more the actual necessity for a larger foreign market produces a “crisis.”
It is coming—another war.[[293]]
Then for brotherhood—a sneer.
Then for the man of peace—a scornful “Mollycoddle!”
Then for Christ—coarse jeers.
Then for markets, for profits—blood and tears.
Then will the malignant manikins patriotically and profitably shout for “national honor.”
Then Christ must wait.