The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-14
PACIFISM IN ENGLAND
The Militant Pacifist and who He Is
Rv Rnth Wright Kaufman


By Ruth Wright Kaufman
Special Correspondent of The Vigiantes
Per Sc, the Conscientious Objector is
hardly a problem in Englatd. There
are only few thousand Of him all told,
and although the five abebodied con-
scientously-objecting sons of con-
scientious objector were lately still
raising frut.trees for their father as a
work of national Importance" there Is
nothing openly harmful in pacifists who
object to military service on moral,
ethical and religious grounds. Theirs
is the personal struggle Of the individu-
al TO escape his obligations to the state.
The harm they do is in giving text to
the "miltant-pacifist," who deliberately
aims. ns-and-the-sooner-the-
better, to stop the war.
The militant-pacifists, so-called may
be grouped in the following classes:
All syndicalists who are "agin"
things: wars. governments, capitalists.
wages and property, and take up the
cudgels, either pacific or militant, TO
secure the general strike and the inter-
national democracy Of the world in 9TH
er words: "down tools"
Certain other people interested in
labor
Some Quakers-mostly wealthy, who
are being exploited for obvious reasons.
few social idealsts like Philip Snow
den. NJ. p, and Ramsay Macdonald,
NJ p.
/ smattering Of Stormy Petrels who
hover over all waves of agitation, such
as Mrs. Despard, f. w. Pethick Law
renee, Sylvia Pankhurst and Bertrand
Russell
Pacifist meetings are held, and their
propaganda penetrate chiefly in those
districts which have had no experience
II of air-raids, or tip-and.run lombard.
II ments of seaside resorts euphemistic-
: ally called fortified towns" The West
= of England and Scotland is the Pacifists
i favorite hunting ground. There they ad.
+ vocate that Great Britain conclude a
n separate peace on terms of mo an
d nexations and No Indemnities" Yet
t even there, their meetings are often vio-
t lently broken up. Suffice it that they
$ get into the Sunday papers in large
:. print.
i The most notorious organized Pacifist
I, group is the Union Of Democratic Con-
IS troll a society founded shortly before
r the war-perhaps significantly shortly
" before the war-to secure International
o peace and the reduction Of Armaments.
IS It's action should be carefully con-
n sidered by the "dossier" Of its founder
% and moving spirit. r. d. Moral The
IS dossier" reads thus:
e z. d. Morel born, George Edmund
e Morel de Ville-Paris, 1873: father
s French: mother-English: when %
IS 1885, he deserted his native country
Ie and became a British subject French.
IN men. it is well known, rarely change
L. nationalities. Official statistics show
r. that from 1905 to 1914 only POI French
10 men adopted British naturalization as
,r against 1924 Germansl. Honorable sec
~ retary Congo Reform Association, 1895
hotly denounced the action of France in
Morocco. 1911; defended Germany's atti
tude over the Agadir incident. 1912
founded the Anglo-German Friendship
at society; member Of the L. ID. c.; at star
Of the war. wrote to prove Russia anC
4. France the aggressors, while Germany
n. could do no wrong. even in Belgium
II. wrote Ten Years OF Secret Diplomacy.
he which appeared in the International Re
of view, published in Zurich. July, 1915
=. wrote pro-German article called "Th,
er Truth on the War"
an What then. do these militant.pacifist
do? Try to stir up trouble. as the
,r. have always done-as they did befor
SO the war; as they will do after the wal
Of Some supply funds: the numerous diff
II ferent pacifist papers either sold 70
on a mere nothing or distributed gratu
rs tously at back-doors and in munitiol
"a. works, contain no advertisements L
help pay for their publication: som
nv write like +. d. Morel; and some talB
-o. Tom Mann announces in loud ton
.a. his latest program
ed "A six-hour day for the workingmar
I'm a pound a day; two Sundays a week.
m. II that isn't militantpacifism. wha
nv is?-You can't win war on unior
nm. hours