The printing press is the machine-gun for the slaves against slavery.
It is a high privilege to make a human brain ferment—with facts.
THE END.
[1]. Reports of the Department of War for the years 1907, ’08, ’09, pp. 17, 21, and 18 respectively. The Reports of the Secretaries of War include no losses by suicide from 1901 to 1906 inclusive. The suicide record reported by the Secretaries of War for 1907, ’08, ’09, are: 1, 26, 39 respectively. Fifty-eight per cent. of all desertions in 1906 were desertions by men (boys) in their first year of service; over half of these in first half year of their service. See Index: “Desertions.”
[2]. The present wholly unpretentious book has a distinct purpose (announced in the Preface and also on this page), and has, too, it is hoped, an effective plan and method for the realization of that purpose. Readers in search of conventionally elaborated theses on war are referred, for suggestions, to Chapter Twelve, Sections 8 and 9.
[3]. “An’ you’ll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier.”—Rudyard Kipling: “The Young British Soldier,” in Ballads.
[4]. Andreief: The Red Laugh, passim. (Russian-Japanese War literature. Published by J. Fisher Unwin, London.)
[5]. See Chapter Seven (“For Father and the Boys”), Sections 14, 15, 16—“Were not some of the rich men of today soldiers at one time?”