The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-10
WAR "A PROTEST
By s. D. F emmett. Jr.

war is" but never mind what old
man William Tecumseh S. said re-
specting conflict at arms. Well can
the bronides anyway. 1t would be far
more interesting to have an expression
OF opinion regarding mans remaining
characteristic of barbarism from those
misguided young bucks now engaged
in carrying out the DEGREES OF No. Is
Broadway around Vera Cruz donned
in the uniforms OF the great L. $. A.
1t would be more significant 10 hear
the private opinion of this legalized
murder business voiced by the pa
rents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles,
nephews, nieces, sweethearts and
grandparents of the four sturdy young
Hsters who bit the dust the first day it
was sought to carry out the orders OF
Avaricious Greed. Also, while con-
templating the foregoing, consider the
two hundred of the enemy (?)-hu-
man beings, too-who, through their
ignorance as result of generations of
peonage, permitted their emaciated
bodies to stop bullets and fill a trench.
Why do we refer above to 20
Broadway and "Avaricious Creed?
Because despite the hypothetical
yarn about forcing an illiterate de-
formed whiskey -swiliing Indian to sa-
lutte the flag-despite the slobbery
slush about wounded national dignity
at the hands of few citizens of a
country ruled for ages by priestcraft
the fact that a few hot-headed adven-
turers of American breed ad-Ventured
a bit too hot-headedly and were made
sleeves of by creatures already under
The Iron Heel,-despite all the cum
nfngly worded palliatives, the real
cause of the threatened subjugation
Of the great country south of us lies
in the fact that one billion, fifty-se
million, seven hundred and seventy
thousand dollars Of American money
is invested in Mexico and three num-
bred twenty zone millions-three hun
dred and two thousand eight hundred
dollars represent British investments.
Now Yokel, zap and Wop, do you be-
gin to get a glimmer of the light?
That the working class are growing
more enlightened along lines of causes
Of war is evident by increasing diff
Guilty in recruiting and by the aver
age of four hundred assertions a
month from the army.
If there exist such genuine concern
for the respecting of the United States
emblem of nationality by foreign dig
nitaries and alien races, why do not
the powers that be seek to command
that respect by bringing about a con-
dition to inspire respect by home folks
first?
How can respect for a ridicuied rag
be expected from conglomerate race
that is a fusion Of several inferior
races and about ninety per cent of
WHO'LL are Hitter dlG mic the SCIlAS
banner is the emblem Of gunner, Co.'S |
sacks and militia in our own sovereign !
states as was recently proven in West |
Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey and
today in Colorado?
Horrible beyond belief are the re- |
ports coming from the coal districts |
of Colorado, one of which states that !
armed private gunmen and state mil |
itiamen tainted to madness the twelve |
hundred creatures in the tent colony /
dow rNTI
night shielded the constituencies hire
lings of Rockefeller, machine guns |
were turned loose. When the fire !
works and merry making were over
looked upon the Stars and |
Stripes as emblematic Of human free
dom were picked up and it is said |
thirty others were arranged into a
pyre. saturated with oil (Standard OLD |
and burned.
Did you notice reports of this in
box car letters on front pages? Was
half a page of good white paper used /
to tell of the killing of an eleven year
boy running for water for q sick moth |
er during the massacre? And while all |
this was going on the owner of the !
mines were planning next day golf |
games on Pontiac Hills hundreds of |
miles away-he worried not, merely |
pushed the button-they did the rest |
To ignorance alone must be attrIb- |
uted the zest with which some of our /
youth enthusc over military life. Sure :
ly when they learn they are the plant |
tools of the masters of wealth, trained !
and groomed to bear +he brunt of bull
let stopping; to bring misery and grief |
to mothers; to rend asunder the bod !
les of other workingmen; to devas- |
tate homes: to murder, pillage and de-
stroy under the guise OF war and do /
such things that in civil life are con-
sidered criminal, while the ariStoCrat,
his sons and family remain secure
from danger-then wars will cease :
and become an adherence.
1t will he time enough to talk about /
national dignity and flag saIuting
when we shall have builded our ma
ton so that three million children
win not have to dwarf mind and body |