Show I EDiTORIALS BY BYTHE I ITHE THE PEOPLE CONDEMNS PREPAREDNESS August 3 3 1916 Editor of The Telegram Please publish the following In your Editorial by the People column Your article on the editorial page of August 2 under the heading Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer Volun teer System Fails Falls I must say to my mind is somewhat amusing and at the same time would be very ery serious and appalling if it the people would fall into such a trap You say that the young men of ot the state have failed to enlist in numbers strong enough to be gratifying gratifying gratifying to certain interests and because that vast majority falls fails to respond you would be in favor of ot introducing Introducing- compulsory military training in order to force that majority to come to time so that our democracy may con con- I thought democracy was wa majority majority majority ma ma- rule so If it the majority of or the young men referred to fail tail to volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer to my mind it seems as though they do not want a a. continuance of or the democracy you refer to I believe the vast majority of ot our rising generation begins to know what foolishness it is isto isto isto to train a body of men to murder without without without with with- out having haying murder ensue Are men trained to run or to box and then kept from running or boxing Do we order orl or- or der cler l r shroud and coffin while the Joy of living riots in our blood And so BO we shall prepare for war fix the attention attention attention atten atten- tion of the people on violence death murder invoke the mad war emotion in order to preserve p peace ace Are we Idiots or hypocrites That we hate war and expose the hypocrisy and lust I behind its preparedness is not that we I love so much the soft wa ways s 's of peace or fancy that any manner of tangible freedom can be gained by debating societies so societies so- so or cunningly phrased legal en en- It Is that we e are sickened of ot killing kUling our own always our own our kin our class we ie are sickened of killing kUling slaves If It more are to be murdered let it bethe be bethe bethe the masters the captains and exploit exploit- ers Three million dead and wounded a year are now claimed by the murderous murder murder- ous industries of the United States That is enough of our side to fall Dont Don't you ou think so so Mr Editor without without without with with- out lighting the flames of war with some so called foreign foe Let us not not- strain our eyes too far from our shores looking for some foreign foreign foreign for for- eign enemy Let the German or Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese Invaders come What of ours can they take The other fellow has hasIt hasit It Jt all aU and of our titles to our lands and homes they will not rob you ou they never do Our democracy Will the Germans or the Japanese treat our women anc and children our aged and crippled our weakened millions more cruelly than they are now treated every day Will they kill and ancl wound more than three million a year Space will not permit me to extend further Suffice It to say sa- saIn In fn closing beware people that you see to it very closely what little democracy you have left you dont don't lose In the near nea future Yours for ECONOMIC JUSTICE |