Young Socialists Magazine 1916 Jan June.pdf

10 .) ~ TOUll'G &OOlALI8TS' IU.QASIlf'B
truc, t hCi-t is nothinr ntOft certain
than that tldensh'e ntilitary and na­
".1 prtparntion will not I\'llii to pre­
,'cnt wllr with Jallan, but will, on the
contrllr)" make that war certain,
Oncc mort I remind you that pellce
can only be insured by .piritual,
nevtr by mnte:rial, prellaration, Is It
not our duty, nay, i. it not the high­
Cit wi.dom, to ask oursclvu how it
tOUles to pus that this natinn, remo\'ed
..!r011l us by 5,000 milts of
ocun, has comt to hate us'so hittHly
as to cherith the idel\\ of lOuing war
upon us~
Fault Lies in United Stilt ••
If we loC'k into our hurts and seek
~n answer to that question, we shall
know how to prepare again .. t war
with japan. h japan's hostility to
til ~due te the fact that we have
treated thu proud and independent
nation with insult and ignominy If
we answer thllt qucstion honestly, we:
shall loo)n find ways to rl!move all
peril of altack hy japan, by remo\'­
ing the cause of ~he hatred of UI.
Suppc'le that. instead of rd¥in ~
upon thi'l ' Ilil'itual preparldnus, you
rely upon armed might, lIS Comrade
Ruu(' lI ad" i£('d, what then SUPPOJ(,
you Iprnd twenty-five hillions to
arm and fortify the Pacific COltSt
Suppose YOII build a bigger arm:l(hI
than Great Uritail1 e\' ~ r dreamed 0 :
-do you Ihink that will avail to
R\'e n war anfl m::r.intain peace II it
not r at h~r c,'rtain to ('aUie Jallan to
make ::Iliiulln:!I wit h other I)owcri UIIfriellrlly
10 us, or draid of our great
arm:\nlenu
But suppose we spend only twt ntyfi
ve ·milli .:ms through a dellurtment of
peace to promote good relation s and
a right understanding with Japan, to
draw ever tighter the bonds of fri~l\tI ­
ship b~tweclI the two pcoplu, is it
not c(' rlam that you will do fl\r more
to a,'erl war and to in surl' peace than
twenty-fi" c billions spent by a Oe·
partment of \Var on war preparations
could do~ To you in this audience
who ha ve come from 1:lnds torn by
the fierce passions of racial antag­
OniS}l15 I car. safely appeal for answer
to thi.s question, AU hiltory bears
witMs!! to the futility of roy friend
Russell'l r-olicy,
Lead. "to Dntruction
And lurely it is well within my
right as a IPokuman fOT the $0-
dalillt party of this country to point
out the tragic fact that for this utterly
futile military preparedness we
;'Ire ca\lc-d upon to barter aU hopes of
!Ioodal reoonstruction, I hav," lo,'ed
Comrade Russdl u truly as ever
man loyed man, I think. 1 have admired
and loved him for the manner
in which he has championed the
cause of the downmott and disinherited.
Enr hil voice has been heard
ur.ing the great remedial rdormsthe
It cps to be taken toward industrial
denloc:raey and brotherhood.
But now all is to be sacri ficed,
If we ar( to follow his present
lenderlhip ~ nd consent to this vast
;ncrtaIJe of military and naval exl,endilure,
then we mult abandon all
hope of old ace pensions for the victims
of the industrial , truigle, of
sieknl'U :'Inu accident insuraneC', and
so on, The proiram of the Navy
Bonrd requires an annual expenditure
of some 265 millions on the na\'y
alone, and the army expenditures
will he no 1(,51. Here, then, we arc
tn slll'nd upon this hideously Wil 'lteiul
work of death and destruction
each ye3.r fa r more than the total
cost of the Panama Canal. \Ve must
ahandon the work of ~ocia l re.::onslrllction
and conl('cratc 311 our energies
10 the work of dcstn:clion,
sla\'{'s an ti Man ,
Socialism Is Menaced
It is told in the gnspels that n n nne
(\ccas:on Jd llS 83ther{'d His disciple\
around 11;111 and watn{'d them thai
there were peril ous tim e'S ahead of
them. timu of war and of rllmor~ 0'
war, when they would ne('d 10 be
careful not to permit th('nudves to
h(' swept from the meorings of th(' ir
faith_ Surely, my comr3.tles, we oi
the Socialist mo\'cmcnt of Americ;'1
Ilel'd to he on Huard kst we be swept
from the moorings of ol1r grcal faith.
ns the br:lve and heloved enm!'ad e
who has .. poke to us. nnd 10 many
(lthen, han' been. It is easy to affirm
intl'ff'ational solida rity in times
of peace, when the skies nrc uncl
ouded. hu t the test of our faith
comu ..... ith war and the threat of
war. And now more than e\'er we
nce d tn ol ffirm ollr faith nnshnkf n
to set om h,ces and our hearts
a!la in.!! t h:.tred, against war, against
mi litarism, pnd trust in the swo rd,
I alll of those wh o believe that out
o f Ihi~ war the dt'moeracy of Europe
will emerqe victorious; that it will
rife triumphant over the prostrnte
form of militarism: that the wnrweary
and prncc-hunRry millions will
h : able 10 institute grea~ ll.nd elfecti"e
canwstigns for disarmament in
;'Ill the hellig-erent nations, "ictorious
nnd defeated alike,
'
In that cHnt I would ha"t thi'l
Am('ricn th;'\t I ha" e chosen for my
hahitatinn nnd sphere of sen'ieethill
Amem:a that 1 10\'1.', that is mine
no leu than it is Comrade \Valling's
-(ree to lead in the great realiution
nf the prnpheu' IIges-old v;'ion. t
would have her hold out dean hand5
to all the other nations. and say Itl
them, "0 ,ister nationl, r, Amuic.a,
wht) in timel of peace took you'
weary and hungry children and lo\'e
them as my ow n, welding their hear
together in the fl.anu: of my it .. , l
eauling their strh'ings and anger I
die, now come to you and lay do ..... ,I
my wen pons with your w\!apon
unite your heartl again in a comma 1
joy and w:th you walk in peace and
fellowship,"
How to R~ the Nines
Examine anyone of the statements
of equality in the multiplication table
of nine, up to a:ld including nine time ..
tcn. Select, for example, 9x7 equals
63; o r 9x2 equals 18,
Obsen'e that in ea -h case the first
digit in tht product is, one leu than
the number by which nine is multiplied:
and the second digit in thl'
T .. roduct is such that when added to
th e first digit, the sum of the tw o i ~
nine_
FROM THE DAY, FOR THE DAY
(Continued from pag~ 8)
liun, There is a possibility, Wl'
admit, o f jttst StIch event ~ a.s \\'1.:
ha\'e pic tured. But we den\' m tl~t
emphatically that Alaska - could
ever be Russianized, t hat ;" Icxico
could ever bring :'.Iexican rule and
~ 'exican condition s to an Y of o ur
Southern States. Ru.ss ia h~~ nenr
succeeded in Rnssianizing Finnland,
Finnland still has its own
diet. s till elects its Socialists to
parliament, h as woman suffrage
and w o rkingmen's compensatio n
laws, In short, it i!' a historical
fact that no politically unde"~I ­
o ped natio n has ever been able to
force its own oppressive laws upon
a more civilized. more highly
developed people,
So let u s ~o on, undaunted, in
our struggle against war, "Ve
have but one enemy, and that is
the capitalist system. We- have
but one thing to fear, and that is.
that our comrades may forget that
the highest ideal. that the m ost
beautiful phase of the Socia1i!'t
movement is its international
spirit, its world·wide solidarity,
Fight Capitaliam. 6gh~ Nationalism.
fight ,War!
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