Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-19
ou are any the less a slave? Listen!"

but somewhat nearer roar of guns.
Brothers shooting at brothers!"
Duprez continued. do you suppose
those poor devils of Germans want to
kill US? Do you suppose this is their
war? Do you suppose we should ever
have come hunting each other over
these fair hills and valleys If we had
come to know each others thoughts
II We had had the sense and the cour-
age to unite ourselves, to work to.
gether for the cause of man?
do you think this sort of thing is
going on forever? Some thought it
was going on forever away back in
1893. In the name of God, are we go.
Ing to lose the gain won by the sacri.
fees of our ancestors in the cause of
human freedom? Are we for all time
going to be fooled by the silly shibbo.
leths Of country and flag and patriot.
ism?
ITO die for three strips of bunting
sewn together! For boundary line
that hasn't even a river or a range OF
mountains or any other kind of an ex
cuse! For a sentiment that enables
your masters, blood-sucking vampires
to keep you huddled in your pens, to
be plundered and plucked at their
will! If you want to die"
They were all silent now-even
Martineau, as Duprez took another
step toward them, his head lifted high
his eyes blazing with the fire of his
spirit, his face grown almost majestic
and Godlike under the Transforming
power Of his idea.
Il have brought you here to pre-
pare you to die for cause-for the
greatest of all causes-for the cause
The brotherhood of man! 1t is com
ing. The way is prepared. But lit
tie while and such war as this will
be impossible.
The armed hordes will no Longer
move at the command of tyrants
Germans, French, Austrians, Russians
English-all alike will refuse to kill
one another at the will of a few
shrewd and self-seeking schemers
who play upon the folly and the ere
dulity Of the masses. The masses
The masses shall rule, and the pow
der factories shall be idle, and tn,
warships shall rot at their piers, ant
the bayonets shall be turned into"
| He was interrupted for momen
by the much nearer tumult of the bat
tie that was raging beyond the hill
But he smiled in kind of triumph,
They are dying yonder-for moth
ing-for worse than nothing. l tel
you that the world of men needs onl,
the inspiring uplift of a great es
ample. I have thrown down my rife
ask you to throw down yours
We shall wait for our brothers t,
come and find us. We shall not re
sist. We shall be tried by court
martial and shot at dawn, in tn
sight of the two battalions, who will
see for once what real courage ma,
achieve.
1--WE shall set our great exampl
before France and before the world
II we must die, let us die for some
thing worth our lives, our reason an
our souls. Let US die for the grea
cause of peace and humanity-fo
the brotherhood of man! No NOR
militarism! No more butchery O
peoples! No more tyranny"
With the last words he drew fror
an inside pocket of his coat small
volume, worn and ragged from Ion
study, turned to q well-worn page
and began to read:
Patriotism is, for the rulin
classes, a sentiment natural an
profitable; for us it is FOOLS trar
The nation is for them kindly moth
er; for us it is stepmother,
shrew who detests and persecutes us
1--WE are we'll aware that if wa
should break out between France an
England or Germany, it would be bu
the capitalists of each country cudgel
ing each other for the markets of tn
world. If we have to risk our lives
we should risk them not to defend ma
tionalities, but rather to found tn
socialist nation that we already carr,
in our brains."
"Herve," cried Tillier, as he raise
his rifle and flung it on the ground.
The name was repeated here an,
there; and another rifle-two, three
four-slipped from loosened finger
and dropped into the dust or wer
thrown down like Tillier's.
Eyes, Herve, our great teacher, on
prophet. Listen!"
And while the roar of the battl
grew steadily nearer, on the othe
side Of the hill, he read:
"Flags are only emblems. The,
have no value beyond what they seen
to represent. There are thousands o
flags that no longer stand for any
thing. And countries! What are they
Every country or nation, SO called, ii
composed of two groups of men-th,
few seated at the loaded table and tn,
mob begging for the crumbs.
country of the present time is nothing
but monstrous exploitation of maj
by man. Behold your country tina
they wish US to die for! Behold"
A shell came screaming over th,