The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
SECOND PRIZE
(By Lille Hamburg)
THINK-OR SURRENDER

What is war for, if it is not for pur-
pose of the capitalists gaining more
profits. This war is sample war of
militarism. 1t is the greatest and
bloodiest event in the history of the
world.
The causes of this war are as fol-
lows:
/. The industrial and social struc-
ture and conditions of Europe.
2. The society claim that it was the
peculiar character of Billy.
8. The fight for supremacy between
Germany and England.
Capitalists want wars. Politicians
declare wars. Preachers pray for VIC
tories in war, and the working men
have to fight the wars. If the rich
men want wars and blood, let them 90
out in battle and cut their own
threats.
The people of the next generation
and those unborn, are mortgaged al
ready to pay this great world debt.
About three years ago the soldiers
who now lie dying in the trenches,
were but little tender boys, knowing
nothing of war. The ruling class filled
these boys ears full of blind obedience
and conceit, so that the boys thought it
a glory to be a hero in war. But the
war has taught them different. 1t has
taught them that war is hell
Surely God did not want his people
to go to war and get killed. God stood
for kindness, brotherhood and justice.
Still the warning people pray to God
for victories.
The women should have a voice in
politics of warfare, because the son
who goes to battle and gives his life
away for the profits of capitalists,
that boy is fed from the mothers body
until quite old, and he should fight
against a thing as war, for the sake of
his mother.
The children in the schools are
taught to honor, love and follow the
flag wherever it goes, even if it goes
to hell, you want to follow the flag.
They say, "Follow the flag, follow the
flag, follow the flag Another thing
they are taught is to be content. No
matter what happens, it will come all
right in the end, just be content.
After this war is over, the United
States will be slumped into a great
panic, from which it will not easily
rally. The great fighting nations of
Europe viii be poorer buyers, because
they are exhausting their supplies in
demand for this war. The United
States will be looking for a market
abroad in which to sell their goods, and
so will the other countries. This will
cause a contest for commercial su-
premacy abroad.
The ruling class want larger army
and navy to hold down the working
class. The talk of preparedness is lust
another trick of the capitalists. They
hire the working class to get behind
the gun and fire at the working class
in front of the gun. This ruling class
is so slick and tricky that the workers
do not know they are reaping profits
for the higher-ups. They cannot see
it, but they have to awake soon. All
the workers will have to awake, be-
cause this can't keep up!
If before the war, all the workers in
the United States had been employed
in work, this country would have man
ufactured so much goods, that it had
to store away the goods, because they
could not have found a market for all
their goods, abroad.
The working class makes all the
homes, and then they live in the
cheapest ones. They make all the
clothes, and still they have to go in
rags The workers make all the food