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Show I MRS. KATE HILLIARD'S ADDRESS BEFORE THE SUNDAY NIOHT CLUB Holds Out No Bright Hopes For the Working People, If Prep-arations Prep-arations for War Go On and Patriotism Is Made An j Instrument to Force the Laborer of One Country to Shoot Down His Brother Across Boundary Line Mrs. Kate Hilliard, in her address : on "Preparedness for Peace" before the Sunday Night Club on last Sunday Sun-day evening, in the Guild Hall of the Episcopal Church, said: ; Preparedness for peace It sounds well. It sounded so well i when the word came into use some : two years ago that organizations ; of men and women were stirred into action and peace parades were had Jn every city and towns of the country and resolutions for for peace passed, unanimously Banners and resolutions declared for peace but there was nothing definite in any of the resolutions no declaration cither for or against militarism just peace. This sentiment seems to have cryslalized itself in "Fords Ship Of Peace" and the expedition which has resulted in , such a fiasco. No definite action was decided on. Economically speaking speak-ing they started with high hopes in lieu of a chart and compass and before they were fairly launched on the high seas there was disruption dis-ruption and Ford left the ship at 1he first landing. The rest of the party are having a junketing trip protected by their mission of peace. They will accomplish nothing for they have nothing to offer. Preparedness for peace does not lie m following the plan of "in time of peace, prepare for war.' The Kaiser tried that plan and we are witnessing the horrible results. Yes! the Kaiser who has always been called the war lord and whose sole ambition was to become the greatest military leader of the world and whose country bristled with every accoutrement of war. : "We believe in peace but his plan has not been very sucessful so far ; in ushering peace into the world. We have just such another be- licver in peace with us he of the "big stick" fame who led the peace conference at the close of ; the Russo-Japanese war. Col. Roosevelt's plan for the prepared- jr ness for peace follows along the I lino of the Kaiser's and if carried out will lead to the same dire re- l suits. He is compared always to the Kaiser and it is said they are much alike. That this is true is shown y an article in the last number of the Metropolitan and commented on by the New York Evening Past. In the article, the Colonel scores the Kaiser for breaking the neutrality treaty with Belgium The Post pertinen-tly pertinen-tly asks "AVhat did JRoosevelt do when, as President he ruthlesly broke the treaty that existed be tween the United States and Colombia Col-ombia made in 1846 and confiscated confiscat-ed the Isthmus of Panama declaring de-claring if the Panamanians had resisted hc would have recommended recom-mended Congress to take is by an invasion and by force of arms. This seems to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The act of breaking the neutrality neutral-ity of Belgium is given as the real cause of the present war and it is harped upon and reiterated so often that the majority of the people believe it to be true when Inexact is the war is for Com. Jriercial Supremacy and every nation na-tion at war now. it fighting for that. The hue and cry which is going on all ov.er this land for National Defense and to enlarge the army and navy is the desire on the part of the capitalists for commercial com-mercial supremacy. It is against the National defense de-fense theory that the revolutionary Socialists have taken their stand and declare that commercial supremacy sup-remacy means nothing to the ing class except that they must fight for it and become food for the cannon, and naturally they object. It is from this point of view that the rest of this paper was written last year and it is with the greatest satisfaction I say to you the Socialist logic and reason of a year ago are good today to-day and will hold good until the workers refuse to be the substance of the national defense theory of the rulers. This is as true of continental con-tinental Europe as it is of the United States. You may object to that statement No doubt von do. The relations shown to exist between be-tween employer and employee in the Colorado trouble and the labor dispute in Roosevelt, N. J., last year will clear up any doubts. Employers of labor mine fac-lory, fac-lory, corporation, or plant, desire to avoid friction. Organized labor la-bor has the same desire, and were there an identity of interest be-tween be-tween capital and labor, as is falsely claimed by people who do not know or do not wani to know, there would be no friction. But there is a conflict the emplovers' interest is to get the work done at as low a figure as he can, and the employee, who has nothing to sell but his labor power, wishes to get as high a figure as he can, knowing know-ing he must conserve his power, he wants higher wages, shorter hours and decent conditions to work under where is the identity of interest? The employe being practically under the control of the employer is at a disadvantage, But sometimes when the dictation becomes intolerable and the work-ers work-ers ask for fair play, the cloven hoof of power unlimited is shown and a battlle for supremacy follows. fol-lows. Reason and justice are thrown to the four winds of heaven. Bullets and bayonets take their place and in the hands of the ruling rul-ing class bullets, bayonets and gunmen gun-men are lawful, in the hands of the workers vicious, unlawful and murderous. And they are seldom found in the hands of the workers, although that charge is always made. In a very recent labor dispute in Roosevelt, N. J. 19 workingmen were shot by deputies, 150 strikers strik-ers were arrested and not a weapon wea-pon found on one of them. Be. fore we talk of an international peace movement, universal defense de-fense disarmament, or national defense, de-fense, it would be well to put our own. house in order and learn to settle our disputes with reason and justice, instead of bullets and baj'onets. This illustration is one of many of 'the desire for peace on the terms of the strongest and most powerful. This " prepared ness for peace" on the part of the mine owners in Colorado has been given something some-thing of a jolt, and they and the country may learn something to their advantages when the interview inter-view between Jno. D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mother Jones takes place. It may be that the great unthinking unthink-ing public who object on general principles to labor agitations because be-cause they disturb the prevailing peace and who lay the blame on the, to them, "ignorant, discon tented workers, maybe they will also learn something of the truth after the interview. For believe me the intrepid, unflinching little lit-tle woman, who has braved the terrors of many a strike, has starved starv-ed and fought and been imprisoned imprison-ed for her loyalty to her "boys," as she calls the miners, will tell them of the injustices heaped upon the miners every where tell of the lack of safety measures required re-quired by law. and not furnished the defiance of the eight hour law by the mine owners, the brutality of the militia yes. and of the regular re-gular soldiers not alone to the strikers but to helpless women and children and nothing will be lost in the telling. This is her opportunity op-portunity to show to the world one path for the preparedness for peace. Mr. Rockefeller had his interview inter-view with Mother Jones and she told him much that was new to him. One result of the labor war in Colorado was an investigation conducted by a U. S. government Industrial Commision. Mine owners, own-ers, union leaders, working men and women were questioned. The report now in the congressional records, is most interesting and instructive in-structive and will prove most emphatically em-phatically to a thinker that the miners, working under the conditions condi-tions they have worked under, have no incentive to take any part in national defense. The only time the rulers consider con-sider it wise, to keep men in good condition is when they want them to fight as evidenced by the "great wave" of prohibition on the other side. Tt may be that prohibition activity in this country has the National Defense league at its back vou never can tell. The prohibitionists have for a ears, in season and out of season, been pleading for the abolition of the liquor traffic and have proved that the abuse of liquor degrades the man and brutalizes him. Their strong plea is that men would do better work and be more efficient if prohibition could be enforced, and the governments have passed them by and refused to listen. "When Lo: like a clap of thunder in a clear sky comes the denunciation denuncia-tion of the liquor traffic in the warring nations and liquor has fallen under the bar, because a man who is sober makes a better soldier, can march and shoot better bet-ter and is in better condition to slaughter and destroy, Russia has led in this movement. Russia, who, when her people a few years ago, wished to abolish the vodka, were refused because the govern-ment govern-ment could not afford to lose the revenue it received from the manufacture aud sale of the stuff which made of her working class, sodden, stupid people. The other warrinjr nations have fallen in line. Even the ultimate aim of this movement is not to improve the condition of the people. It is a short cut to help the rulers to their goal commercial supremacy in the markets of the world. The nation that wins will it bring peace? It will bring hatred and bitterness to the hearts of the conquered con-quered ruling class and they will plot and plan to wrest the supremacy supre-macy from that nation. The people, if this war has not shown them the path to peace, will become be-come the helpless victims of another an-other war. "Where does the church the organized or-ganized Christianty of today stand in regard to preparedness for peace? There are almost as mairy conflicting statements as there are adherents to the church. The contradiction most vital to the cause of peace is made bv the "Prince of Peace" when he iETA church in naming its leader the quoted as saying "I came not to bring peace but a sword." The Christ appears to me to have been a revolutionist. He stood absolutely and fearlessly a,gainst the then prevailing government gov-ernment and religion, and he was prompt y crucified for his daring The name "Prince of Peace" was given him man' years after his death yet in his name the most cruel, bloodthristy wars have been waged. Holy wars they are called. call-ed. God forbid, such sacrilege ' In all wars the church has always sided with the ruling class, never with the people, as Christ did. Today the clergy are praying for the success of the army '"of their own particular country. The church also wants peace on its own terms and stands for commercial supremacy. Current Opinion published an article entitled en-titled "War and the Christianitv which has neveh been tried." A journalist is sent out lo find how the clergy line up the war and the church, as exemplified by Christ's teaching. lie finds they arc floundering. The foothold foot-hold has slipped, each creed is a school of conflicting opinions. The most approved way out of the difficulty dif-ficulty is to side step the issue by saying. "Christianity has not fail-ed fail-ed it has'n'l been' tried " Another An-other makes this brilliant but elusive elu-sive answer "Christainity is a flying goal" I wonder, will he ever catch it? An Episcopal bishop made Ihc most satisfactory reply, saying in r part "Yes, "because the Christian has built his conduct upon only a part of Christ's teachings. He loves his neighbor until his neighbor neigh-bor offends him Hc believes the sermon on the mount only so far as it doesn't interfere with his business. His greed comes in and his Christianity goes out. "War and Christianity are .irreconcilable. .irreconcil-able. "We need not fool ourselves about it. Jf I have not the right to kill you who have offended me, then nations have not the right to multiply Cain's crime by the thousandfold. We have got to face the failure of our theories. This war is a terrible blow to Christianity. And yet I have survived the pessimism into which it plunged me at the beginning, and believe now that it will teach us to attend more to God's business busi-ness in the future." On the non-resistance theory a clergyman said, "Christ preached nonresistance because he had no property to defend." The journalist journ-alist is still asking why not the clergy, the spiritual power in Europe, Eu-rope, rise in overwhelming protest pro-test against this war? "Why was it left to the unchurched Socialists to voice the cry ""War against War." Echo answers, why? The women should, and have something to say about prepared ness for peace, any and something to do too. Well may she bitterly ask, "Ts it for this T have given flsh of my flesh, bone of my bone? Is it for this T have gone into the darkness of death thinking think-ing to build up a race and instead I have furninshed food for bayonets, bay-onets, cannon and the pestilence and disease of warring nations." The women of England are protesting pro-testing against the order to marry and bear children to supply what military men natively designate as the "wastage" of the armies. Our husbands, fathers, son and brothers, they cry. have done the Avork of the world in a hard shop and under a relentless, penurious taskmaster. Now they are taken away we are left to be outraged, our homes destroyed, our babies outraged murdered. Suicide a thousand times would be better than to bear children to be butchered butch-ered at the behest of the rulers. The following poem should touch the heart strings, yea." even of the most hardened. Is the militant woman of England resigned to war? This poem, read at the Court Theater in London by Julie Ppp. and the sensation it created, cre-ated, may be the answer. THE WOMEN AND THE WAR LORDS. By Caroline Duer. 1. Is there never a thing we may have, and hold Though we search the wide world o'er? You have taken our young, you have taken our old. Our mates and the sons we bore You have slain our men by the thousandfold, thou-sandfold, And vou still crv out for more! II. You have quenched the light in numbered num-bered homes That have never dared your ire; From our ruined cities spires and domes Flare out your flags of fire, And the yield of our fields when the harvest comes Is the reek of vour blood-red mire! III. You have done these things, since you may and can, And no word have we to say: Though we faced our death for the life of each man That you call to his arms today! And for all that you spend, and for all that you plan, We pay; to the full, we pa ! IV. Oh, wo pay by our blood we may not shed; We pay by our gripping fears; "We pay through the dumb night's gasping dread; Wo pay through the long gray years ; We ipay for men living, we pay for men dead With anguish and bitter tears! V. And we starve and we toil till the sinews start, Though your cause be right or wrong. Yet we have neither speech, nor lot, nor part. In the councils of the strong; But wo ponder and turn these things in our heart You shall answer to Us ere long! "Is war right?" is not the question. ques-tion. Is the prevailing theory of nationality right ? If nations cannot can-not progress without infringing on the rights of other nations, then Avar ethics are the right ethics. Tf the world was bettered by this continual Avarfarc if humanity was benefitted then Avar is the proper pro-per thing. This extract from the San Francisco Bulletin is very clear on the principle of 'nationality, 'nation-ality, and strikes the keynote to the situation : We have to dectde whether the principle prin-ciple of nationality, or its opposite, the principle of universal biothorhood among men, will be best for the greater great-er part of humanity, not merely now, but for the whole future. On this foundation wo may be able to build a working croed. Begin with the United States. The experience of tho Unltod States has shown beyond any doubt that the ties which bind people to national governments govern-ments are artificial, woak and arbitrary, arbi-trary, as compared with the lies which bind together all men at least those of substantially the same producing pro-ducing capacity in all parts of the world. A generation is not enough to shake oft racial characteristics, but it Is enough to strip European immigrants immi-grants of almost every vestige of nationality. na-tionality. Nationality appears to too i a habit ingrained in the individual in exactly the same way at the habit of smoking or drinking is. Children acquire ac-quire it, but do not inherit it. Germans Ger-mans and Englishmen are not mado by their blood, but by their education and their early environment. Tt nationality is practically eliminated in one generation, why prate so much of patriotism? What is patriotism? A love of country and a false coloring to the, particular country in which Ave happen to have been born. I quote from a pamphlet, Anti Militarism Mil-itarism by the Frenchman, ustav Iferve i Socialist and a man who has been imprisoned many times for his utterances on anti-Militarism, but whom, nothing daunted, daunt-ed, has continued his denunciation denuncia-tion and logic in prison and out. The following is from his address to the jury at one of his trails. Like all neAv ideas they shock public opinion, they may shock' you. Jlcrve's Avork Avill become a classic as it applies Avith equal forces to all nationalities. "At an age when the critical faculties fac-ulties are not yet awakened within us, we have heard at the family table, tales of horrible villainies committed by the Germans or the English, and deeds of glory achieved by the French. The German youngsters are at tho same time being filled with stories of all sorts of crimes perpetrated perpe-trated by the French, the English, or the Russians. We are taught that France is the land of tho brave, the home of generosity and chivalry, and the refuge of liberty. They are saying say-ing the same things of their countries to the children of England, Germany, RuBsia. Japan, and In our innocence, we believe all. For Christmas presents, pres-ents, our fathers and even our mothers moth-ers give us tin soldiers, guns, drums, bugles and trumpets And when this beautiful education has made of us patriots in the bud, the school sec-ullar sec-ullar as well as parochial puts the final patriotic touches on us. Do you recall those little school manuals in which the histon, of nations is doc tored so as to present the French fatherland in its greatest glory9 The German children are put through ex- actiy similar courses, only these confine con-fine their praises strictly to Germany. Do you recollect those textbooks of history Avhich, on each page, cynically presented some scene of carnage, or the likeness of some Avarrior? Beneath Be-neath each picture are commentaries each line of which drips with hatred to foreigners. Avlth national conceit, and the worship of the saber. In order that the patriot may be perfect, per-fect, in order that the virus may strike through to the bone, it only remains to rig him out with the pomps of war." I become optomistic Avhen I read anti-patriotic sentiment in the dail7 papers and magazines. The Scientific American says: The knowledge science has brought us, has not saved us. We still have the old tribal, brutal instincts. We have not learned to think scien-tificially. scien-tificially. A man who thinks scientifically learns a fairness of some scientific men over this Avar show they have not thought in a scientific method, Avhich consists in beliveing no more than the facts Avarrant, and leaving out national prejudice. "The folloAving appeals ap-peals to me particularly coming from such a source: "A permanent perma-nent Avorld peace Avill never be possible until these screeching patriots of all nations are either eliminated or reduced to an insignificant in-significant minority." I recommend recom-mend this thought to the educators who are shouting for military drill in the schools, and teaching patriotism. Seience is a method of thought, and a method of H thought means a method of life. H I am indebted to the Magazine fl section of the Ogden Standard for H these appropriate lines on. M A SOLDIER'S UNIFORM. H Permit me to make myself known H I am a soldier's uniform. H I have the power to transform a . H (Continued on Page 6) H I ' ISlTElliD'S ADDRESS BEFORE THE I SUfllDAY SUIGHT CLUB H (Continued from Page 3) H man from a man into a slave. .1 am H tbo symbol of lust, the badge of bond- H nge, the boon companion of bayonet B and torch, and the trademark of war H Without mo murder would be mur- j der; butcheiy, butchery; and dlplo- H macy a dead letter With me indi- Hi viduals perish, personality is a mock- Hj' ery and cruelty a synonym of justice. H Women follow me in crowds. I fas- H cinate them. They smile at me, blind H to the knowledge that through me are H their sorrows multiply a thousand-H thousand-H H i With me there can be no peace. H I Without me man is man, woman is H I woman and God is God. H Thomas Paine struck the key M ! note of patriotism -when he said : Hji "The world is my country" and it H J should be the slogan of the work- B ing class the world cover. To pre- fl ' pare for peace, the working class Hj i must unite on the economic as well H as on the politick field. Xo pro- HR ji gramme whicli does not recognize H the class struggle can bring per- Bj . . manent or desirable peace. A H ' struggle does not necessarily H j imply hatred, which the Socialists H j arc falsely accused of fomenting. H Permanent peace can come only m " when the class struggle is ended j by a working class taking over H the tools of industry to be opera t- !sH ed for the benefit of the whole world. In the meantime. "The greatest hero of the whole world would be the man who could say to the army lay down your arms B and go home." H The capitalist class is fully Ht aware of the class struggle and Hj the capitalists are a unit against , H the working class. On the plea of H indentity of iutcrcsts and partriot- H ism they seek to prepare the work- H ers for exploitation, or, at the first " H 1 call, to shoulder guns and start off to kill. Hjj When Europe vas divided into Hlj principalities and kingdoms, as it Hj still is to some extent, the people H were taught "the divine right of Hj kings." Each king was ready to Hj fight every other king and the H! slogan was "for God and my H King." This partnership brought H God into queer fellowship when mi we remember the general charact Ier of the old time kings. This partnership with God still exists if we listen to the Kaiser's "me and God'' and the prayers of the Allies The principalities haAfe 'merged and we have modern Germany, Prance, Italy and Great Britian. Hj The old patriotism of the peity Hi kings is gone and nobody the H worse. "With association comes Hg the knowledge that after all it HI said and done, people are very H much alike, all human, with much 1 in common. With economic eon- iditions practically the same in nil ' countries the workers were dis- H covering that neither the flag nor H the political or geographical loca- . H tion altered their status as wage Ef ' earners. Their sole assert labor H(f power was becoming a drug on Bl the labor market. The worlds H 1 1 market could not absorb the pro B duct and many were jobless. Soc- H ialist greetings were exchanged H between the workers of the differ- j; ll rent countries now at war. Per- Ht' j haps the powers that be chose in- H I ter national war rather than face HT M industrial revolution. H I J Proof that the people of the be- '. . ligerent countries are not so eager ' for war and patriotic slaughter ' H , comes to us in spite of the press Hjl, censorship. The light against conscription in England and the , ; arrest in Austria of 100 Socialists B ', j who spoke against the war argue H 1 1 uprisings everywhere in protest B acrainst senseless war. 'These are 1 signs in the heavens that prepa-B prepa-B ( redness for peace has started. 1 , The only justification for hr lies B , Avitn the working class, which as B Daniel DeLeon said must first ex-B ex-B ha list every peaceful method of Bj! r-ivilized warfare. Should peace. B t fnl methods prove inadequate, B; the resort to phvsical forces is the B fault of capital, not labor. The B i wielde'r of power can cliooso flic Kjj weapons and lorce them to do his Bi biddinc. B! i To the court and jury which B condemned him for his anti-mili- B I tarism. Gustav Tlarve said : "The H nation for you is a kindly mother; Hj for us a step mother, a s"hrew who ' detests us. Partriotism. is for you B ' a sentiment natural and profit Hj able, for us it is a fools trap." H it the idea of this new parric- H tism which declares" the world is B my countries," and which re- B cognizes the right of all men to a B full free life can permeate the H hearts and minds of all the people, H it will dominate the world. Prov- H crty, hunger and crime have no Bl place on the earth, and will be H eliminated through the cconomio M solidarity of the working class. H Kcmember this. Take it with H you along the path and' through H j the gateway to the goal we are H ; ' itriving to reach. yBlazon this in. H icription on ' your minds and hearts. "The working class and the capitalist class have nothing in common." This is the Socialist way to preparedness for peace. OO |
