The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-12-21

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II ooatinuasion Of - subjsct of my iass
letssr ~ peak erst VI the seects n WAY /
(hsld w ~ 70 " dsIrimeat>I y Mbor) |
Though III ~ kzst NJ evil Ipts war.
thsy do nst naks shc- hapressisn pceb oqrE
minds THAI They o6sbt vhils wzr Il permit
ted tosibst The effects are widespread.
and enter Nth their bliehling influence into
every relation Of life. Treated In their pc
cunsary bearing, they entail q monstrous
national debt. Pohticsl economists tell us |
thst sveIy large nationpl debt Is ,the result !
Of war. These debts have to be paid -or 10 |
tins ys4feF Twill suppose they have TO BE- !
p1sd--A5atB paid paid oct of labor. The
III o. SIs per month, waees. thar the sol
der gess <.psy that bsuys no proportion to
the danger and nsrdships Of war; be has to
p>y1baek ID he shape ofrtares to pay the
dsbt, Oh The Interest," upon it--soA shat The
effect il the sape. is@ay bssaiA, as il he laia
Idle during The term 81 tbewar, and paid all
, his ezpspsss. md What he does not thus
pay back, v he dies before such debt il paid,
nibsl st6sE kborins man. or woman, ,r
child, has to pay, 90 that he becomes party,
as IT were, 70 fraud, when no cansrs smother
iaboring man 70 psy, wiHisgly or uBwillipgly,
what he DID not consent to pay. Also, in
I the time that the common soldier is at war
he il saving nothing comparable to what he
would. or might De, ~ he staid at home AMI
followed his legitimate business. Thus it is
4 that the soldier gives his services, his life
and health, ard pays the whole monied
debt Of the war
The running in debt can, 1t seems 20 me,
be no less an evil When il is by a nation
\ than when 1t IA BY mn iBdividual-andi "
Y such debt i not paid, the same moral stIg-
ma and selI-condernnafion attach TO II that
10 10 the ins,I viduAl " he fails to pay his
debts; this is. allowing that they both have
enough seff-respect 10 be wounded by .
moral DELINQUENCY, (upon the subject Of
debt, aud not paying il, viii say more, II
permitted, IN future letter).
c But there IL a moral side 70 the question
10 consider. What ties OF family does the
, soldier sunder BY going to war. The wife
: that be promised -and h. which promise he
is baund BY Law higher than the Law OF
Statee--so cherish and support, when be
took her ut the marriage altar, ~ leaves be-
hind. Can 1t be mnch wonder that be leaves
) her sometimes land can IL Be said that be
, has any reasonable cllim 10 redress n such
case ~ 10 q moral death TheLesertion
FROM an artny il punished, but for deser'ion
. Of the family, We have no reprimand. How
] many dotipg mother and sister, dotng il
may be mere than is deserved, have. had
their little happiness blighted by this inf.
deity DO family 10 going 20 war
But from saddening seenes like these W.
, come 20 consider the fact that the peace Of
4 neighborhoods has been. broken up more by
returned solclers than BY asJ 0her classro 81
nen. Having served well their apprentice
Y ship TO the trade Of killing, they have come
b nome to perpetrate the worst cases Of pri
vate murder that have been perpetrstei 10
A this o9nntry cor The past fes yearss. Pr ever
II % be found in ihe annals VI crime Th'
= blood on these murdered victims cries Vi
!, from the ground, and WI continue 70 cry
through all time, and the soice live to haun
, the censcienoes OF the instigators 70 VIZ.
" and their sympatbiscrs, during their natnra
lix~s--not knowing what they nay sufe
, hereafter. May it even be so II IL may bel!
al b. avert w&r.
A An Eff o. d our late war was - organic
] crime through the country, Ia rural places
for the first time, or on a larger scale tha
was ever knosn before; 10 which eve
4 Judge lawyers, and polfcemen, were said &
n % impliczted. Hal we any more fruitful
parent on this th the late war?
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= tion 81 country does war set. lie thar moth
+ ing TO considsrf While the recent war va
\ raging 10 WIS % common Occurrences for th
smalIest children 20 be seen marching Ia
single file procession, dressed i'm mimic sol
: dier's clothes. and carrying mimic soldier
= l.sarns.v I AJAX ought this TO have been
!. \ Bat thc sold fogIesD Of war will say this wa
u risht-this was a. it should be. take thl
! liberty. aud every morally-mindsd man,
think, VIII take the liberty to dissent fror
% this opinion
q War, which deraDges Industry, compel
as 20 witness the d,agraceful scenes Of labor
IN It's most burdensome forms. put upO
s5mgaep spd ahilles:~a Gao a. n.ssGHr-zEaSr'
Fdvcfnr Seeucs shat are 70 be Witnessed on the
sgess soil Of European countries.
1 When the city on Mexico was besieged BY
pelled. bv the aristocratic. classes persistent
I iy holding out in the siege, to subsist upon
horeeAest1i - ,rr with those AFistocraile
ts-Fse wa1 more than the dictates Of human
Nv and decency-
7 Thus is 1t that war makes and leaves it's Oh
my track behind it, wherever il is waged.
What wonder ID IL that we are told that The
woUen Of the country are refusing 20 bear
children which must be brought into the
world to be killed BY var What wonder is
! IL that hushands are made brutal till il il
ssdamnasion,D as Mrs. (A- Sd Townsend
said az late meeting or the Universal Peace
7 S1ciety, at Bridgewstsr, in Vermont, for .
+, womaa TO perform the olkce Of maternity.
\ (sail Mrs. Townsend, "whlle mothers are
oom polled 10 bear children In contention add
strife, against their wih and consent, with
losthiuz and contempt We may Expect war
! riors; hos childsen bsrn Of love, with the
purest ard highest attractions between pa
\ fents, ~ill be the children or love aud not OF
var and hate" And, t.rhe voice Of woman
! lie being heard, and she viii nos consent 80
BE- dsmped with nafernity When she does not
want it.'s) .A
War u collaborating man do some
4 Thing rAas hs doe4p0t want 70 do IL 10 great
selfi-bness insading the rights Of little sell
!. fishness. Il Is the violation Of moral princi-
pie itself. Il 10 the convicting without a
trial BY Judge urjary--by refusing 20 refer
matters OF dispute to the arbiramcnt OK rea-
san, or coussils.. u may be said that war =
the principle Of universal nature, illustrated
40 Large fishes eating lirtle oDes-in one
X beast, In the lower animal world preying on
ano.ber fnos to 20 into chemical afinites. }
But when the soldier, in masses. PUSHES to
!. war, 4 Is the sschooH Of macaerel rushing
voluntarily into the whales mouth. r.
wsr presses with its whole weight, rs havt
= sid. ON labor. s.as
a-ss, A SrExxE ArrxR TEurH.
Il H-aEl ~ 10 m coszInbHD.l NNs
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