Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-10
PACIFISM in ENGLAND
n. The Militant Pacifist- and
Who He Is.
BY Ruth wright Kaztffman.
Special Correspondent Of
The Vigilantes.

Per go, the Conscientious Director
is hardly a prohlemin England. There
are. only a few thousand of him all
told, and. although the i've able
bodied OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sons
of a conscientious objector were late.
Their al a work OF national Import
ance,s there lis nothing openly harm
full In pacif1sts who object to- military
service on moral, ethical and religi-
GUS grounds. Theirs Is the personal
struggle Of the Individual to escape
his obligations to the state. The
harm they do is in giving q text to
ately aims, by-any-means-and-the-
sooner-the-better. to stop the war.
The militant-pacif1sts, so-called.
! may be grouped In the following
classes:
All syndicalists-who are .agin"
things: wars. government capitalists,
wages and property, and take1up The
cudgels, either pacific or militant. to
secure the general strike and the In
ternational democracy Of the world:
in other words: down tools.a' -
Certain other people interested in
labor.
Some Quakers-mostIy wealthy.
who are being exploited for obvious
reasons.
A few social idealists like Philip
snowden,. M: p. and Ramsay Mac
donald, Mp.
A smattering OF stormy Petrela who
hover over all waves Of agitation.
such as Mrs. Despard, r. w. Pethfck
Lawrence. Sylvia Pankhurst and Ber-
trand Russell.
Pacinst meetings are held, and
their propaganda penetrate chiefly in
those districts which have had no ex-
perience of atr-raids, or tip-and-run
bombardments of seaside resorts
euphemistically called fortified
towns" The West Of England and
Scotland is the Pacitsts' favorite
hunting.ground. There they advo-
separate Peace on the terms OF sNo
Annexations and No Indemnities.,'
Yet even there, their meetings are
often violently broken up. Suffice it,
that they get into the Sunday papers
in large print.
cifist group Is the Union of Demo-
cratic Control, a society founded
shortly before the war-perhaps Sig
%nifcantly shortly before the war-to
secure International Peace and the
Reduction, of Armaments.
Its action should be carefully con-
sidered by the ""dossier''t Of its found
err and moving-spirit. e. d. Morel.
81 oO5SACA ASoub IlluSs s1+5sF&A S{N-.S
e. D. Morel: born, George Edmund
Morel de ville-Paris, 1873; father
Trench; mother-English; when 90
(l896), he deserted his native coun-
try and became a British subject.
(~Frenchmen, It Is well known, rarely
change na~tionaltties. Of1cial statis-
tics show that from 1905 to 1914 only
207 Frenchmen adopted British
Naturalization, as against 2,s341-Ger
mans.) Honorable secretary Congo
Reform Association 1895: holly de-
nounced the action Of France In Nor
COCO, 1911; defended Germany's at
titude over the Agadir incident, 1913:
founded the Anglo-German Friend
at start of the war, wrote to prove
Russia and France the aggressors,
while Germany could do no wrong,
even in Belgium: wrote Ten Years
Of Secret Diplomacy" which, appear
ed In the International Review, pub
lished In Zurich, July, 1915: wrote a
on the War;
What, then. do these miitant-pa-
cifists do? Try to stir up trouble, as
they have always done-as they did
before h war; as they will do after
the q Some supply. funds the
numerous different pacif1st papers
tributed gratuitous1y at ~back-doors
and In munition-works, contain no
advertisements to help pay for their
publications; some write, like E.. D..
Morel; and some talk.
Tom Mann announces In q loud
tone his latest program:
"a six-hour day for the working
man; a pound a day: two Sundays q
week"
If that isn't militant-pacifsrn, what
is?-You can't win a war on union
hours.