Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-21
GLORIFYING WAR

products of their labor. Thus their
purchasing power is destroyed.
They produce two dollars worth of
wealth, but they are paid but one.
Clearly they cannot buy back as
much as they have produced. And
therefore the surplus accunulates.
And out of this situation grows the
struggle for markets. And in this
struggle for markets, for indus
trial supremacy arises the inter
national complications that lead
almost certainly to wars.
But here is better way. And
we want every opportunity to urge
it. Here and now we offer and
will continue to urge a peaceful So
luton of the social and economic
problems both national and inter
national. And that solution lies in
the direction of economic justice.
Give the millions that toll the
full products of their toll and they
will be able to buy out OF the mar
kct the full amount of wealth
which their labor has put there.
This will tend to peace at home
and abroad. For then there will be
Justice, and after justice will
come peace.
And we are offering here and
now the outlines of the program by
which this economic justice may be
secured. 1t is Justice we want
And therefore we wish to gloriiy
JUSTICE and not war.
3. And again we oppose this
appropriation because there are sc
| many good and useful things fol
which this money might thous
, and times better be spent.
Take this SIS, 200 and build bet
! ter schools or extend your univer.
sity equipment. Invest it in uni
, versity extension, or in the scien
tific experimentation with new
and better types of grains anc
animals for the farmers of this
: state. Or buy with it publ,
park on the shores of the lake b,
{ our city wilderness, where now ant
then the weary and the worn, thu
, poor who through the summer hea
swelter in the squalor of our cit,
slums may go out and breathe God'
sweet air,
| ''With the sky above their heads
y And the grass beneath their feet"-
Do this and you will bless hu
: manity, you will help the people o
this state.
= But spend it in the glorificatiol
of war and you feed the worst pas
/, sions of our modern brutality.
One battleship costs more thar
the whole university equipment o
this state. And twenty minutes o
= the fiendish hell OF war will suf
flee to send it and all its terrific
equipment to the bottom of the sea
a. We are opposed to this meas
ure because it would tend to per
= petuate burden that bears es
pecially hard upon the working
= classes. Do not forget that it is tn
: working class that fights all tn
battles. 1t is not the railroad pres
idents, or the trust mag mates, no
the millionaircs nor their sons tina
shoulder the muskct. They hir
e Substitutes, anu stay dt bOiliC al
I. work up booms for the glory @
war; and draw the dividends.
The world has enough anguish
enough broken, bleeding hearts
enough tears. Now let us turn on
: faces towards the light of bette
day. Let US wipe away thci
tears; let us heal the broken
r hearted; let us bring peace upo
: the earth. Let us live and labc
: for peace on earth, good wi
J. among men," for the higher, BET
o ter, holier civilization in whic
y ''they shall beat their swords int
y plowshares, their spears int
e pruning hooks - when ''natio
r shall not lift up sword against ma
ton, neither shall they learn we
c any more. +"