Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-06

who are fair enough to see the right and to dare to utter the right, that the democracies of the world are now engaged in one great titantic struggle to free the world from autocracy, i'm perialism and militarism with one fell stroke.
 Must Defend Country.
 q doube if there were many who were so thoroughly shocked from cen. ter to circumference as 1 was with the breaking out of the European war But it had ro come. And have asked my self, as I would ask those other men who have not yet awakened from their delusion, is it not time to recognize when your country and your home is being ravaged and over ridden? Is it not time to recognize that the red blood in. America demands that he shall safeguard himself and his fel- low man or he ought to perish in the struggle?
 Criticizes War Referendum.
 Now there are some people who hdNt Sdiu Nhdt llAo 4uCSliOh OA IhO declaration of war should have gone to a referendum vote. I wonedr if there would be a band of a dozen or more men who would endeavor to sur round the home in which you live and then demand your surrounder or your property, and in the meantime, while you are considering the subject, dis charge their revolvers, killing your wife and your children-whether you would call a meeting for the delibera- tion of the subject and vote as to whether you should defend yourself.
 We want peace. To ask the gov- ernment of the United States now to specifically state the terms of peace is to paly, consciously or unconscious ly, into the hands of the enemy. At this time the military machine of Ger many and Austria is upon soil foreign to them. The military machine is in Serbia, is in eBlgium, outraged Bel gium and gallant France. A peace at this time must necessarily be predict ed in part at least upon Germany"
 After referring to reports of German defeats in Flanders, the speaker shouted amid applause:
 Back From Flanders.
 Back, back, back from Flanders, back from Serbia; and back, back from France; and then perhaps we may determine the conditions of peace, but not until then.
 Conscientious Objectors.
 Now, know that there are some religious, conscientious objectors and they are opposed to war under all cir. cumstances-non-resisters - and be- lieve that that is the way out. That may be, somewhere in Timbuctoo, but not in Germany or Belgium or Serbia or the United States.
 For Rights of Minority.
 ''I hold that man who is a traitor 10 his country is upon a par with the | scab to his trade. I have a great ap- preciation and desire to see that the | rights of the minority are protected. | believe that men have the right to | express their dissent, but the expres- | sion of dissent is one thing and the | of a movement to destroy 1 the will of the majj~1ty-that is not i right and cannot be tolerated.
 Rights Guaranteed. As the result of the efforts made | 1y the American Federation of Labor before war was declared, the stand | lrds of American labor have been | to be maintained and the i rights to which the toilers and the masses of our people are rightly en- tiled will be guaranteed by the gov srnment of our country.
 Tn the midst of war, there can be 10 discussion of those who have the | ,uns trained upon them. As a result If the effort put forth by the organi- ed labor movement, and agreement vas made between the secretary of var and the president of the American truction of cantonment work all through the country should be carried 'n upon contracts based upon the uni ,n scale of wages, union hours and lnion labor
 No Surrender of Principles.
 "The American Federation of Labor las secured the conditions an dagree- nents, part of whici. have called to 'our attention" continued the speaK- IT, instead of recognizing these in the interests of the workers and the masses of our peo- Jet its was purposely and malicious y misinterpreted to be surrender O the government and a surrender to he employing class of the United States.
 Attack On A. E. of L.
 Men naturally, some of them relig- ously pacificists, saw the opportuni- y of making an attack upon the American Federation of Labor and 'ver its head, upon the government. We'll. I would rather that they would lave had the opportunity of running Iismembered by any other means.
 We are at war. Regardless of rom which country we have come or rom which country our anscestors
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