The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-03-23
Lecture By George r. Kirkpatrick, Of
Nelu York, at the Stephenson Audi
toriun1, Charleston, West Virginia,
Thursday, March 2, 1917, 500
p. w.

CONTINUED from last wcck.)
listen again: The University Of
Chicago began in 1892 to build
splendid buildings on the campus
ground in the Midway. Rockefeller
was furnishing the money and they
went ahead with 4 good deal Of pride
and finished in 1892 a hall long as
5 ycral blocks; several others were
1inishcd, and they continued to build
until 1905. One modern 'battleship
costs fifteen million dollars. In Con-
r,r"SS last winter they were discuss
ing the matte of building war ships
costing eighteen million dollars
apIecc The British. Germans and
French are building battleships cost
Ing fifteen million dollars apiece;
they arc called dreadnaughts. They
arc now building some which they
call Observation-Disclosures. costing fif-
teen million or more apiece. One
modern tbattleship costs three times
rs mucn as all OF the buildings in the
university of Chicago campus, for fif-
rcen years OF buildinS;- and that is
called StatcSnlanSliip! StatcsHlanShip!
DO Won know what statesmanship is?
II is an ovcrgrown politician. And
politician is an animal who comes
ar0HnG in October every two years
with large quantity of hot air. Cap
plause.)
Let us get at this in another way
In the report of the National Com
missioner of Education for 1908 you
will find it estimated.-the official
"stimate-of the value of all the
books of all kinds in all the libraries
belonging to the four hundred and
Sixty four colleges and universities
in america. including the books col
looted for over two hundred years
all those books would be worth six
teen million dollars rs.-that is to say,
on" modern battlcship would cost
Tho homes of our country as much as
tho total value of all the books in
all these four hundred and sixty four
baain@ colleges and universities. S.
and thnt is StatcSnlanShip.
Al. if We could only see how mon
s'rnus the modern system has devel-
opnd' Nou know how proud the peo-
nj" Of the United States were when
lGe Ship Oregon came around from
the Pacific Ocean,-the American
hajtl"ship, with a thousand men on
board. to be ready for the Spanish
War-it was the best in the world.
ana il was the boast of the United
States that the ship made the time it
did. And that ship will be outSro"n.
ou,-classod and outdone inside of ten
or hltrcu years from that time. And
Wis ie called craftsmanship!
What was the cost of militarism
in tho United States and Japan for
'~o wears? Eight billion dollars.
rH" labor cost alone.--l mean the
las in wealth of the men engaged
fH these things.-the loss of that on
..'1. is four billion dollars. Think
u' uomos costing $4,000. and S41o.
worth Of furniture, and 80 such
's0 fy milo. and think of fire that
nIra"d those at the rate of eight
I.0"- ycnr,-pretty swift-tho tota
''=' o. militarism III twenty-one
'ofutrioa of the civilized world. is
equal 10 a fire burning homes like
'0a'. equal to fifteen round trips
inw Now York to St. Louis. every
'"e|', months. burning going ani!
''m.n@.-as fast as a pretty Sooo
.''-a can walk. Oh. if the peopi+
''"'' only see how brutal. and how
@.n-'rous. now outrageous. the busi'
'ns2 Of war has become! Remem'
""-. please. all the cost of all th'
Er''"s in all the worlds history is
t''..} looted by the "oThlES tlhs''
'.r he capitalist class to prey upor
". "orkinE class. long. long ago
'.N War orr iginated. the Jaws o
...l "Doned wide for the working
'z- and the human beast of burden
':'l 'Ae human beast bowed and tooi
.'n Nin tho burdens of war. III
'a- Tire burden of his o"'
''. "'rr. and he is still doing /
.nl1fSc.D
.-' us get at this in another wa
'.'"' IS another way to realize tn
"'i = runSnoSS of this business. Le
s Judy the modern machinery use'
-h war \ long time ago the use o
IN" elrtt and spear were the onl.