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be following him about. But, alas,
that is the reward of true greatness.
If they desire to advance the candi-
dacy Of Robert M. LaFollette for
president, there can be no valid OBJ.
lection, but, having brought discredit
upon their own organization, and
made sorry mess of an opportunity
such as comes but once in a genera
ton, our Socialist brethren ought to
have the good taste to discretely re-
main in the background"
Who is he knocking? Hillquit.
Many pacifsts looked on the Wash
ington Conference as a great victory
for peace. We remember Oswald
Garrison Willard fguratively slapping
Charles Evans Hughes on the back
for his pacifist speech in opening the
conference. Radicals were not so
optimistic about it. They said it was
war conference and not peace
conference. The delegates came armed
and left armed. England was repre-
scented by the willy Balfour. He did
so well that the Empire went out of
its way to honor him on his return.
Japan was not so well satisfied.
Neither was France. The American
militarists were not so we'll pleased.
They want to elevate their naval
guns and thus increase the range of
their fire. It seems England has been
doing this. England will not stand
for the change and says it is against
the treaty. The American militarists
are saying $50 much the worse for
the treaty" Treaties are only scraps
of paper when they don't suit.
There were several more or less
peaceful conferences held since the
armistice but judging from the fury
with which the capitalist nations
are arming it does not appear that
Mars is licked yet The threatened
war between Japan and the United
States over the domination of the
Pacific and the exploitation of the
Orient has been brought much near
er by the law excluding japanese
The feud between England and
France will not down this side Of an
other war. The Balkans are a regu-
lar powder magazine with drunken
cigarette fiends jostling about. A
spark and another catastrophe is up
on us. 1t is clear from the evidence
that another war is unavoidable, un.
less the working class take power in
to their own hands as they did in
Russia. But that would also involve
war.
Can the workers prevent war?
They surely could If they would. But
will they? Comrade M. Pavlovitch
quotes Lenin on the question of war
prevention. The great revolutionist
said:
at must be definitely explained
how great is the secrecy surrounding
the birth of war and how helpless
is an ordinary labor organization in
face of really impending war. It
must be explained over and over
again in a thoroly concrete manner,
how the situation was during the last
war and as TO the reasons why the
situation could not be otherwise
Special attention must be called to
the fact that the question Of defense
of native country will inevitably be
puts the question: wherein lies the
iority of the workers will inevitably
solve this question in favor of their
own bourgeoisie."
Comrade Pavlovitch, after quoting
Lenin, continues the discussion. He
puts the suestion; Wherein lies the
only real means of fight against
war;" and supplies the answer: "In
the maintenance and extension of an
illegal organization for the permanent
work against war Of all revolution.
aries participating in the war. The
Communists cannot prevent the out.
break of war but they must strive to
change this war into a civil war, the
world revolution" The war to end
war will be the class war.
Tho Communists say that the CAPT
talist system. like all previous social
systems bears within itself the germs
Of It's own decay. In other words, IL
is bound to collapse, not because II
Is unjust or violates the Golden Rule
Of the pacifists, but simply because II
keeps too many stomachs empty in
the midst of plenty. Under capital.
ism the machinery Of production has
become highly developed, but owing
to the fact that this machinery is in
the hands Of a few, and the work.
ers who operate il receive for their
labor only small portion OF what
they produce, there is unemployment,
hunger and want. Millions Of unem-
ployed, chemically unemployed, are