The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-05-04

country those that were duly elect ed by the American people, the Amer ican workingman included, declared war vastly different situation to that existing in Germany.
 The gentlemen are opposed to con scription, but why isn't it a fair and equitable system that asks all to bear equally the burdens and sacri- fices incident to national defense? The dear comrades should be the last to oppose conscription; are they not constantly shouting that the worlds wealth, the worlds work and the worlds Knowledge is not equit- : ably distributed? Conscription aims ' at the equitable distribution of the ! sacrifices of war incident to the main l taining of our national life. It says 7 to MT. Smith, to MT. Senderling and to MT. Hogue and the owners of the First National Bank, you all have an equal chance to die for your country. Strange is it not that these illustrio6s labor leaders who proclaim from the !, house tops that they have been de l frauded of their fair share of the worlds wealth, and that they have been overburdened with more than 3 their fair share of the worlds work, s should now wish to crawl out from
 
 g of war into the shoulders of those f who volunteer.
 r But alas, | am mistaken, reading t their article a little further find r. they are intensely patriotic; I come across this gem Let it be known n we stand ready to defend our shores 8 and our homes against foreign in- e vasion from any quarter). There you r. have it, let the nation that roped Bel O gium, that carried off into captivity T and into voluntary servitude, large y numbers of it's people, that has left s desolate large areas of peaceful e France, let this nation that is a e stranger to truth and destitute of . American soil, then but not until then, will the fighting socialists be ready to do battle. Whatever else might 2 be said of the Germans, it will have to be admitted that they have organization, that they are trained in \ the arts of destruction and are eff cient in war But what of it, they - could not withstand the mighty hosts of democracy armed with Roberts rules of order, nothing would be done A without a referendum, all would have an equal voice in whether they should and in that case of course, we should
 
 pen that some mighty Cicero, among them, some socialistic Demosthenes, would arise and declare that it made no difference what flag we starved under as they have done in the past have to hold another referendum to see whether it did or not, and say wouldn't it be hell if the inconsider ate Germans should, on o-oer from the kaiser shoot our ballot boxes tc smithereens before we knew for sure whether Smith or Senderling had been elected to lead us on to vel tory, we would simply have to have recount and mayhap it would have to be settled in court.
 The sublime faith of the socialis brethren in referendums and demo cracy is to me both instructive ana amusing. Everytime they submit their hobbys to popular majorities fol rejection or approval, hobby gets al awful drubbing, they don't get votel enough to keep themselves warm still their faith in the great unwash ed remains unshaken.
 They tell us they lose because ths dear public isn't educated, becaus' those who hold beliefs contrary ts their own, have been fooled an, bamboozled by the cunning schem ing unScrupulOuS caplldllSI. ret dmOni the socialists are bright and aol, men. Men like Charles Edward Russell, who has long since declared for preparedness and who has stated that if he must make a choice be tween being an American and
 socialist he would be an American We are told about MT. Kitchin' noble efforts to stop the war. Yer
 but war once declared MT. Kitchi
 has taken his stand with his fello' congressmen for the waging of a effective war, and certain it is, b
 would not endorse any such shameless document as that purporting to repro sent the views of organized labor i
 Globe and Miami over the signature of the officers of the two central boz
 ies.
 Respectfully,
 CHAS. H. TANNER