The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-23
Dr. Bowers Talks
 Of Folly Of War

pr. Edwin F. Bowers, of Hartford, 1 addressed an enthusiastic meeting at 1 Socialist hall, New Haven, last night. | taking as his subject Glass Inter- ests"
 He began by showing where a na- tural division in society existed by ! reason of the fact that those wko control the tools of industry were a unit in exploiting those who were forced to sell themselves into indus trial slavery { hundred fold worse than chattel slavery in it's callousness, heartlessness, brutality and carniver- ous indifference to all that goes to make up the sweetness, beauty, tend erness, and hopefulness of human life)
 He showed where the capitalists, (particularly Taft and his intriguing brothers; Morgan, Guggenheim. and other exploiters) were adroit manipu- latorS in human flesh.
 How they appeal to the cupidity, love of romance and adventure, or ne cessities of poor foolish addle-pated boys in order to join the murder school'' and put themselves under the control of a gang of mercenaries, uni- formed hyenas who use them as pawns and tools in their masters gain of grab and hold"
 The doctor made an appeal to his auditors to do all that lay in their power, Cby inculcating knowledge in their fellow workers-who fight all the wars furnish all the cripples and corpses, and most of the money) to strangle the blood stained God of War, to tramp out this hellish bloodlust, this ataristic relic of the savage,- with gleaming canines showing snarl- ingly above the lip writhing in hate hot ta nf fhoir " "a nd stupidly deluded fellow workers.
 Dr. Bowers criticised stingingly the Boy Scout Movement, characteriZing it as a psychological attempt to de- bauch the minds of impressible youths to teach them that killing and killing and maiming their fellows at the behest of a decorated assassin was praiseworthy and honorable, while the same acts committed without legisla- tive incentive and official sanction condemned them to the gaNows. |,
 "As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined" he continued. and argued convincingly that the bent of a man is determined at theN crucial period Gas Richeleau puts it from seven to elev- en years.
 He said that the way to end wars was for the working class to stand shoulder to shoulder and refuse to longer furnish corpses, cripples, and
 
 and detestable horror of war. If the capitalists want victories" let them go to the firing line and get them. If they want blood. Gin the language of Prof. Kirkpatrick, in "War-What For'O let them cut their own threats. If they want hell let them go to h..
 Dr. Bowers spoke sharply on the mat ter of pig-headed illiterate ignoramus- es refusing to permit their mothers, wives, sweethearts- and daughters to vote-classing them. by this action, with infants, imbeciles, and idiots.
 He said that any man who had an ounce of decency in his makeup, and a spoonful of brains fin his thick head, ought to be ashamed to stand opposed to all the great thinkers of the ages-from Plato to Jane Addams. He lauded the splendid endeavors of Mrs. Annie G. Perritt, her efficient aides, and the bright young college girls, for their work in carrying the gospel of equal suffrage into the dark places of Connecticut-even to Litch- field and Canaan.
 When women vote, he declared, hours of labor will be shortened, fac- tory inspection laws enforced child labor abolished, workmen's compensa- tion act passed over the head of greedy legislators, sanctity of the home enhanced, and the thieving rail- roads, express companies, and fran chise grabbers, given a solar plexus blow
 He claimed, on the authority of a leader of the Woman Suffrage cause in Hartford, that the recent defeat of the Equal Suffrage bill in the House, was brought about by lob by from the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad and the liquor interests working in conjunction.
 Dr. Bowers alluded to the decision of President Taft in vetoing the will l of three quarters of the voters of Arizona as @ high-handed peace Of | nerve and Executive gall, hardly to | be found outside of an absolute mon- l archy The magnificent back somer- | sault of the mighty tool of the Inter ests who now occupies the Presiden- tfal Chair, on the matter of revising | the iniquitous and "indefensible sched- ule K" also came in for caustic mo- tice, and the point was made that as long as we were deprived Of the only weapons feasible in Democracy, viz, the Initiative, Referendum and Recall (particularly of the judiciary) We were in the position of the ball in Omar Khayam's Rubiat, which no question makes of ayes and noes, but hither and thither, as strikes the player goes"
 Also that we richly deserved our "spit in my face and call me horse" Urea tment, for our ignorance and suppl ness in permitting ourselves, decade after decade, to be exploited and ''spurned like the stranger Cur from the door, of the autocrats Of the United States.
 The speaker declared that until the working class (who produced all the .s saitA ee eAe worlGA would unite in their own interests and demand. the social ownership of the means of pro 1uction and distribution. they would simply be the puppets of the pander- CTS and parasites who own them, body and soul, as long as they owned the means whereby they Hve'-their jobs.
 Dr. Bowers spoke eulogisticaMy of the labors of Dr. Wiley. that splendid lighter of the Common Good; of Glavis and Clifford Pinchot who sacrificed their own interests for the collective Jane Addams "the first citizen of Chicago" and her splendid