The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-03-23
The Suicide OF the
Working Glass


come on. Don't get in hurry tt
Il be an officer l have read what was
described in the Russa-Japanese
war, mon charged ten times up the
nil. What does that mean? Re,
mem Der, that when you are ordered
to charge up the hill. or anywhere
else, and yon don't charge, your own
officers have to shoot you on the spot
Where are the big soldiers? Back
giving orders. while the men have
to rush up the hill in the face O.
inc modern rifle, the Satling guns,
and the modern machinery OF butch
cry. and the officers send word to
charge up again and again and. b.
bntchered,--thcy go up bravcly ana
arc shot down, more take their
places and so up to be shot down
Just as many times as the officer in
the rear desires to send them up.
| They charge up the ill,-they have
got to come back-they have to go
up the second time, and back,-three
| times and bacE-four times and back
up the hill-the big officers back in
the r@ar-tive times up the hill and
back-six, seven, eight. nine. ten
| times-thcy fall down in piles in
front of the satlinG guns,-and this
is what you have got to go through
when you go to the next war Uoud
| apDiause) rem member, please, the
butchery Of men has become a
| science. and that is what you have
got to go through to find out whethc.
we can get larger market for the
goods you produce, and which you
are kept too poor to buy Cloud APP
, ,plause)
This is such n big subject I have
simply to hit n few high places and
| go on.
And all the while the nations in
| crease their equipment for butchcry.
An airship could NY over Charleston
| and drop dynamite enough in fifteen
! minutes to demolish the entire town.
| This is scientific destruction, and. it
is called craftsmanship!
! Remember in recent wars those
! who declare war. don't go to war;
| they simply declare war.-just as
| that follow back there in the rear
declares you have got to go up the
| hill in the face OF the Gatling guns.
When the next war breaks out keep
your eye upon the bankers, the big
politicians, and the leading citiZcnS.
l will tell YOU how to keep your
it is 4 c:nc!. too. Just have him
stay out Until the bankers have been
on the firing line.-you will never
get killed in war, if you do this,
have no grunt against the bankers,
and the leading citizens. respect
them. they are too sharp to go in
front of the butchering machines.
They are willing to drop in 25 cents
apiece, and pay some intellectual
| prostitute to take their places. They
| will so down to the train, and when
it leaves town. they will say Good
bye. boys, See YOU again" Gf you
ever get back) (Applause.)
| The bankers son is not going to
war. the leading citizens sons are not
going to war. II is different now
from what it was in 1850. Butche cry
has become 4 science, and two men
I with gatling guns can kill all the
men of this town in half an hour.
| What shall we do2 What shall
we do? Let us study methods OF
stopping war for little while. how
to cure war. l have 4 plan that runs
lie this:
! First. have law passed requirin g
that for every senator and congress
man who are elected there shall be
elected an alternate so that in case OF
| a vacancy the place may be filled
without any loss of time or expense.
| Second, have a law that whenever
a member of congress votes for 4
| war he shall cease to be a member
of congresS-by his own vote he
shall unseat himself, and shall be
required by the terms of the law, 70
Join the army right away, and use
the com mon instrum ents of war, the
rife the sword. and the SatlinS gun,
and fight in the infantry,-don' let
him ride-put him in the infantry on
the firing line, without prom otion un-
til the war is over. or until his car
: cass is torn to pieces with lead and
steel.
Under these conditions imagine 4
senator from West Virginia or con
| gressman from Charleston, when the
; question is up in congress whether
W., shall declare 4 war. and thu
names being read and the roll call
; ed. when you come down to the sen
, ator from West Virginia. and say
: Senator so and so. how does nc
: vote?" I do not think. if the sen
.. ators had to go to war. they would
vote yes. He would say, IF I vote
I yes. | Will have to go to war. I vii
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