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Show STRONG WORDS ON PACIFISTS. In his magazine on physical culturo, Macfadden devotes a paragraph to tho pacifist, which will bo approved by tho great majority of the people. Ho says : "I am shoulder to shouldor with tho pacifist in his detestation of war. I am in full sympathy with him and his loathing of tho brutalities and seemingly seem-ingly needless slaughter associated therewith. I am with him, heart and soul, when ho contends that thero should be good fellowship and friendship friend-ship between the nations of tho world. I am even most heartily with him in his condemnation of the warlike spirit, except when aroused by tho necessity neces-sity of self-defense. RUT, BY THE ETERNAL GOD, when ho steps in and tells us that wo must not prepare to defend ourselves against savagery; that wo must hold out tho ollvo branch to a war-mad maniac; that wo must suppress our natural Instinct of self-protection; self-protection; that our own loved ones our mothers, wives, bright smiling kiddies must bo left to tho mefey of those whose ono rule is slaughter, whose lust for rapine and murder has no limits womon, children, the aged then I say: "To HELL WITH PACIFISM!" |