The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-20
(By DIR. Edwin F. Bowers.)

to letter in the Bridgeport Farmer
from William T. Coyle, censuring me
for my criticism Of the Boy Scout
movement.
1 fear that Mr. Coyle is deeply tine
tured with the hell-lust craftily i'm
planted by our capitalist masters
miscaaled Patriotism"
He frankly admits that have
been contending ever since the move
ment was swept away from Ernest
ThompsonS eton-that it's present
purpose is distinctly and avowedIy
military
He says ingeniously They (the Boy
Scouts) are given an excellent physi-
cal training enabling them to be in
the pink Of condition If ever they
would be called upon to defend this
glorious country and that wonderful
freedom, that our ancestors fought
and beds
Mr. c.. II the victim of misplaced
confidence confidence in the integ-
rity and intslligence Of his teachers in
schooi-confdence in the specious
platitudes uttered by the 'roarators'
on Patriotism from the citizen
Who now occupies our Presiden-
hal chair. and his predecessor. the
Chattering Cave Man. who cracks
I bones with his teeth, down to the Re-
publico-Democratic ward heeler and
political spell binder who eu1ogizes
.the Flag with one hand while he
crafty picks your pocket with the
other: who cunning1y inspires the
cursed war spirit that his masters.
Big Business, may have an ample
supply Of monkeys to pull their
chestnuts out Of the fire, withal.
He ignores the fact that wars are
fought by workingmen.
Doesn't Mr.. Taft say in his
Report AZ Secretary of War in 1907,
Page 7s. that 1.-The fact cannot be dis
regarded nor explained away. that for
some reason or other the life of the
soldier as ut present constituted is not
zone to attract the Best and Most De-
sirable man
THE bulk of the recruits come and
always must come from the agricul-
tural, artisan and laboring classes .
How do you like this gratuitous in
suit from your Chief,
you poor delnded fools. who, for 4.
n cents day, cheap clothes, and six
and-one-third cents-a-week-a-meal
food are willing to stab, hack and
shoot your working class brothers?
Doesn't q wave of resentment and
indignation engulf you when you
know how you have been tricked and
dipped into joining the murder school
OF army or navy? s
II It doesn't. then you are hope
less-a brainless tool, defending the
system which keeps you in slavery
and subjection-a cowardly cringing
Helot, hugging your chains.
Wars are fought by the workers,
the real producers of all the wealth
OF the world. at the command of oh
so-crafty rulers.
Acquiescence IN this age-old "vic-
limitation is craftily induced by In
teIlectual prostitutes, who sell their
brains to the ego-manis cs like Herr
Gott wilhelm and Turrible Ted. and
the money bags who want wars. 'sbe-
cause It helps business" Armour,
swift, Cudahy. Charlie Taft, with a
100000 acre ranch on the borders
OF Mexico. and a nice fat tight little
centrsct to supply the army while
ssmaneuvering)" Brother Henry Taft's
Bethlehem Iron works, with it's lit
! tie graft on arrnor plate and steel,
furnished these Benighted States),
and all the horde of hungry, blood
eacking patriots who develop such
sppera bundance of 'f1ove-for-their-
country acknowledging and mot
onIy-anxiolis-buta willing to.fght ar
DOR that they become hysterical-so
much so that they stay at home, and
permit the cheap men-the AT cents
q. day men. to go to the front, and
11ave their blood and brains pound
ed into the mud by the iron shod
hoofs of the cavalry horse.
Oh yes, they're patriotic enough
far from the zone of danger. Some
one has to do the reviewing when
the poor disease infested half-starv-
ed soldiers come staggering home, so
they'll bravely volunteer for tina.
job. -
Now, my innocent simple-minded
young enlisting brothers and you, my
little Boy Scout kid-brothers who
want ito be in the pink of condi-
ton" if ever YOU should be called
upQn to defend your gorious coun-
try let me offer brotherly bit of
advice, in all earnestness and SINGER
ity.
Let me help you to realize that you
are duped and bamboozled, treated
like q convicted criminal with a
price on your head and record Der
tillon-wise'' to enable your masters 10
x-y-sdre you should your soul and
todv revolt from continuing the filthy
d@<.x-s-d life you will lead in the ar
n q