Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
TO POULARlZE THE WAR
 Rx G M Willard

declaring war to find any great diff ficulty in arousing the patriotism Of
 it's subjects to the high pitch of en- thusiasm so desirable and necessary under war conditions
 Soon after the flame of war flashed over Europe, and long before there was any reasonable certainty that the Unit ed States would eventually become in volved there was a powerful and we'll financed propaganda for preparedness instituted throughout our land. Mil lions were spent to arouse little war spirit blood lust-and much fear of what might happen to us if we did not heed the scream of the alaImist and prepare for war. Editorials by the acre,
 miles and miles of movie reels, thou sands and thousands of people prac- 1 tically forced into preparedness, pa | rades, but all to no purpose, for the l whole plot finally exposed and the 1 greedy object of the big plotters was ! made plain to all who read anything l besides the newspapers and magazines 1 that were m the plot.
 The steel manufacturers were strong 1 for preparedness and We find them | taking about two and a half billion dol | lars more in profits from the govern ment the allies and the public on the l same tonnage in the year 1917 than 1 .hey took in 1914; and they were pay I ing good dividends in 1914, though their i net profits on a ton of steel then were i only about e-thirtieth of what they i are today.
 TheSvalue of the coai output has been | increased by some g., 400, ,0000G0, simply by the pushing of the pencil. The 1 market value of the copper output fo1 | hoe. lt.a
 900 to $660,000, ,000. Some of this in
 crease comes from working the mines
 but the most of it by working the mar
 ket and their country's needs.
 l These are a few of the preparedness
 propagandists whose operations have
 teen investigated and made public, who
 have been bleeding not only the gov
 ernment but the people as well, in or
 der to increase by thirty fold their all
 ready enormous div4uenGs.
 According to the program now before
 congress, there will have been some
 thing like $20,00O,000,000 appropriated
 before adjournemt as the estimated cost of one year. of war. StupendouS ! as the cost is we cannot hesitate in
 consideration of dollars, while world democracy is in the balance. But there
 is no need of doubling and treblng the cost of war just to keep on the
 good side of the profit takers, by shap-
 ing our affairs so that they may be
 taking toll and levying tribute not alone
 on the present generation but on gen. erationS yet unborn.
 If congress has the courage and the
 honesty to conscript the dollar along
 with the man, to hold in check the
 greed and rapacity of the dollar patriot | ;+ trrin ;, to the mass of the American people but it will have done much toward:
 popuiariZing a war that so far has beer
 none too popular with the men wh,
 must do the fighting and settle tn,
 bill Let it restore the purchasing , 1 power of the wage workers dollar b,
 fixing the price of the chief necessare
 1 of life, and labor troubles will ceas
 over night and the l. w. w agitdto
 will disappear from the land and pos 9 sibly from the newspaper columns Le
 congress break away from it's fftchini l post and it's fear, worship, or what = ever it is. of the money -maniacs Le
 congress keep it's eye fixed steadfastl
 and solely on world democracy and no
 permit our government or our people ] nor the governments nor the people c 1 our allies to be 'bled white" just t ] satisfy the greed of the dollar patriot. J If congress has the courage n strangle these deadly foes within ou
 border, we may well trust our arm and our navy to properly dispose of tn u foe beyond the sea. We have full fait , in the courage, the honesty and tn = good tact and judgment of presiden ,+ Wilson, and there is tome sign but n 5 certainty, that we may soon be able if pay like tribute to congress.
 If Let congress get into the collar prop ,r erly and see how popular this world ,e war for world democracy will becom 1t over night.
 .e At the close of our four years ( Id civil war, we had a national debt ( m less than $3,000, 000O0 and half doze - or so millionaires on our hand as by Id products. But congress is preparin ot for an expenditure of about seven time y that amount for the first year of tn le war and billionaires oy the dozen al d already in process of incubation. Mi l. lionares or billionaires made by natur; is laws Gf such a thing were possible T. would be unobjectionable, but million 'e aires and billionaires made by legis 'e lative process are a menace and a per y to the country they inhabit. Nobod io can compute the number of people tn; Is are impoverished in the process of les islating a million dollars out of u e pockets of the many and into pocket , o3 lS the one, but simple mathematics te at us that a thousand times as mar st must be impoverished in the process V creating one millionaire by legislati1 ,d act. And extreme individual wealt