The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-13
SPREADING LIES FOR WAR

against Germany, China and other Eastern
peoples where ancestors are worshippsd or
greatly respected. Both German and allied prop
agandists congratulate Charters today on this
master stroke" and chuckle over this lie that
herded more thousands into the slaughter. But
today, irnperialist riValries are at a different
stage and the British Parliament recently apollo
gized to Germany for this lie and stated it was
without foundation
1t was not sufficient to paint only the Ger
man army as devils; the whole nation had to
be painted as natural-born fiends beyond the
hope Of regeneration. In this, as in every other
case where the masses are to be slaughtered to
save capitalism, the greatest service is rendered
by the professors, the preachers, and the so
cialist" misleaders. Scientists proved" that
German science is only destructive, artists
proved" that German art, literature and music
are deyilish Gompers damned everything Ger
man and shouted fer the war, Alexander Howat
of the United Mine Workers and John Spargo
of the Socialist Party were sent by the U. S.
government to Italy to spread this gospel there
and keep the italian radicals in line" And pro-
feSsors and preachers beloved that God and
civilization could only be saved by the complete
destruction of the entire German people.
Thus Prof Hobbs: Can nation that befouls
or poisons wells, bombs hospitals, sinks hospital
and relief ships, and turns over the women of a
captured district to the pleasures Of its soldery
ever be made fit for civilization"
And Prof Vernon L. Kellogg: "Wtn it be any
wonder. if after the war the people of the world
when they recognize any human being as
German will shrink aside so they may not touch
him as he passes, or stoop for stones to drive
him from their path?"
But for the supreme outburst of hate we have
to take the utterance of a preacher, for don't
We all know God is love-? The words Of the
famous Dr. Newell Dwight Hills: Society has
organized itself against the rattlesnake and the
yellow fever. Boards of health are planning to
wipe out cholera and the black plague. Not
otherwise lovers Of their felloWmen % have
finally become perfectly hopeless about the
German people. They have no more relation to
civilization than orang-utan, gorilla,
Judas hyena. or a scalping- knife. In utter
despair therefore, statesmen. generals, dip1o-
mats editors CWhat lovers of their felloVmen!-
N. s. are now talking about the duty of simply
exterimnating the German peop1e. There will
shortly be held a conference Of surgeons in
this country who are preparing to advocate the
calling of world conference to consider the
sterilization of ten million German soldiers and
tle Segregation OF thelr women so tnat Wnen
this generation of Germans goes civilized Cities
states and races may be rid of this awful cancer
that must be cut clean out of the body of
society"
Among themselves the capitalists and their
servants the le-nakers laughed at this sort Of
stuff, but to the masses it was handed out with
the solemn authority of religion. The only ones
that attempted to open the eyes of the masses,
we're the revolutionary workers, and against
them the whole force of the war machine was
directed. Hundreds of members of the L w. w.
(Which was at that time, a revolutionary or
ganization) and revolutionary socialists, were
imprisoned, beaten up, mobbed deported into
the desert CBisbee Arizona); Frank Little, or
ganizer in Montana lynched by the Copper
Trust. The capitalists knew that tomorrow they
would be friends with their German partners,
but that their real, implacable enemy was the
working class.