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tions, but they are better to their wives
aud children than any other class.
"Now we are going to take up the
study Of Jean Jaur's's life lie was q
youn: man when he was assassinated
so that we don't know what he mirht
have come to. The worth of the really
great man only comes to be known
gradually. and so people are thinkinc
and talking more of Jean Jauras nou
than they ever did. '''
Take the case of ROOSEVELT Tho
papers were full of him when he died
ana Sr now you hear nothing about him,
mat IS not the way with really
great man. like Jaures."
Could Have Saved France
Here one Of the pupils was asked to
read from Margaret Pease's "Life of
Jean Jaures.' The class heard abont
the evil hand that struck him down ,,
ana now, had he lived, he "could have
saved france from the dark mazes
INTO which she wandered when va
broke out."O ""A
cause he was opposed to war;" NN w.
TEACHER: "Yes, but did the neon1e
eet chance to punish his assassina-
tor! If Jaures had killed some one he
would have been shot immediatelv Az
matter of fact. probably his death
was Que to lingering hatred among
army. officials for his part in the
Dreyfus trial"
Here the teacher dgressed to extol
'aTTes TTt r, l0r or, ms share in this episode.)
,.i fla;oHEk; -; Every great Socialist
mas ms own brand of Socialism. Their.
principles are all the same. but their
tactics are different: Jaures did not
agree with Marx that violence was
necessary. He believed in gettinp re-
forms by law and order, but | don't
think he would have kept to this stand
nae he lived through this brutal war
ana seen how successful the revolu-
tlons were. All the moderate Social
lists see now that only by revolution
can permanent good be effected. How
would yon like to run over Eugene Y.
Debss lfe?"
Extol Debs's Virtues
lass raises sympathetic chorus.
IEACHER: Did he kill any man ?"
PUPIL: "No. He was sent to prison
because he wrote articles and did
things that hurt the capitalists and the
ruling powers in this country.
TEACHER: "What was he trying to
prevent? ?"
PUPIL: "The horrors of war. He
was against war. SO was Jaures. So
is any Socialist. Debs was called a
Bolshevist."
TEACHER: Yes. What crime is there
in being a Bolshevist? You are not
ashamed OF yourselves for being Rol-
sheylsts, are you::'
PUPILS: "No, we stand for our
selves We are not ashamed"
PUPIL: Lots of people arc Bolshe-
visits at heart. but they arc afraid to
come out and say it. It's because
Eugene Debs fought against the -capi-
taiists that they put him in prison"
Lenine "Gentle Peasant"
TEACHER: "Now we're going to
talk about Lenine. You've all been
told that he is a wild sort of man.
peasant. Now I have letter here that
| want you to read 1t is written bv
T.enine and it had to be brought into
through the revolution of 1905 because
it wasn't allowed in the mails"
Here the pupils take turns of read
ing the letter. which brings up the
question of impcrialistic war and wars
TEACHER: "What kind of war was
the last one"
PUPIL: "A war to get land and
nower A war of conquest. An i'm
pcrialistic war.
TEACHER: What is an imperial
iStic war;"
PUPIL; "a war brought on by
kings and ruling powers to satisfy
their ambitions"
TEACHER: What kind of war was
fFn;+oI the var s+atst between W. England and the
PUPIL: "a war of liberation and
Freedom"
TEACHER: care any countries in
the same dcmeaning relation to Brit
ain to. day that the United States used
to be?
PUPIL: eyes; India, Egypt, Ireland
and Canada are still subjected to Eng
land"
England Called Imperialistic
PUPIL Continuing to read from Le-
nine's letter.; -Four years of imprial-
istic slaughter have left the certain
knowledge that England as we'll 90
Germany has been playing false, and
that the nation that is richest and
mightiest profits most, while that which
IS weaker is oppressed and subjected" :"
TEACHER: "Capitalists think it was
democratic war, but from the stand
point Of the Socialist it was no war of
democracy, but an lmperlallstic war,
aided by kings and presidents. The
greed for land which they are all show
ing at the peace conference confirms
this"
TEACHER: "Do the Socialists want
to do away with the capitalists by
shooting them with guns?"
PUPIL: "No; they hate the system,
not the men"
TEACHER: "Kill Rockefeller to-day
and you have another capitalist in his
shoes tomorrow"
TEACHER: "What is a capitalist ?"
PUPIL: "The owner of means, or
products or man responsible for the
distribution Of the means of life"
Pupils Father Capitalist
ANOTHER PUPIL: "Then my fathers
capitalist, for he owns machine
shop"
TEACHER: eyes, your father is
capitalist, then, but the middle class
capitalist is sometimes worse off than
the working man, for he is showed be-