The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-07-17
CONSCIENCE. PREVENTS
f SOLDIERS KILLING ENEMY.
Must Make Soldiers Drunk be-
T. fore Charge Says Miss Jane
>s Addams.
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NO FEAR OF DEATH AMONG
MEN ON BATTLE FIELDS.
Many, Commit Suicide Rather
" Than slay Their Foreign
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. ".Others are determined not to kill
their fellow workers in other armies.
Many have committed suicide
rather than go to the trenches.
''The people, as a whole. in each
country are opposed to war. =
These are some = of the amazing
statements made by Miss Jane Addams
in her address at Carnegie hall Friday
night, at reception, given to her and
delegates to The Hague International
Congress of Women to Promote.
Peace. - "a
"You know they make their men
drunk before they can get them to
charge she said "They give them
:beer in Germany, rum in English army
and. absinthe in the: French. They
have to give them the dope. SO to
speak, before a bayonet charge is pose.
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He Faces Death. s.
1--WE met a young; German in Swift
zerland who had been in the trenches
/ three months and a half, she said.
"and who had been wounded in the
lunss. He was rscupe ind fuiIy
expected to 90 back to the trAnches
ard die there He was Wllat we might
call a fine young man, but not an ex-
ceptional young man in Germany. Hess
had had a gymnasium education. had
been In business with his father, had
travelled In South Africa and In Eng
land, Holland and Franco. He had
come to know good men might bes
found in every land. !. $.t -
Here he was at 28 facing death,
and this is what he said, speaking his
mind before he went back to tho
trenches: j." =, =. LIE. zsa.sEss
THAT never for those three months.
and a half had he shot his weapon In
such a way that it could possibly kill
another man-that nothing in the
world would make him kill another
man.. -. = ,z..
''He> could be ordered into the
through the motions Of killing; but
his final act was with his own CON-
science. { T.. n. ,sSas
'.He decared his brother was an
officer who, he knew, never shoots
in a way that will kill. And he said
I know hundreds of young men who
are the same ~ :e
End Their Dives
At one hospital we visited insGer-
many I learned of five young Ger
mans who had been cured and we're
ready to be sent back to the trenches
who had committed suicide, not be-
cause they were afraid Of being killed
but because. they were afraid they
would have to kill some one else.
I'VE also heard similar stories Ii
France, where we talked with the
nurses. in hospitals and to conva1esss
cent soldiers and older men, too, who
will not do! any fatal shooting because
they think no one has the right stoa
command them to do 1t.
.s>5 Critics Older Men
She. declared one of the leading
the war could have been postponed
for 10 years it would have been inl.s
possible. because OF the tremendou
revolt against war in the schools and
universities. I. ,sssS s
When we spoke to the people we
were told the people did not want
the war, that the government ptass
making ]. N The government de-
elares We do, not want this war and
we would be grateful to anybody who
would stop tive did not reach thes
military, but heard from persons WIN
said some OF the military were sick
OF this war, =. -. si -