Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
-xv - . aaaaa aaxa:a
Is sue setvents
eg‘ A Weekly Magazine x.
K xv.-x-A-:x x-
WL
Vol. I. No. 18
- -xxwxxws s ‘M V .. xxxx - -x ‘V-xx:xx,xxxxxxxxxxx
NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 1916
axxaxaxx xx x axxxxxxx x. xvxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxs xx x
xxx“ x Wxxxxxxt
Five Cents
Sign and mail at once to your Representative in Congress
I Want War
1. TO HELP FRANCE-
Because France was once our ally against
England and we may need her aid again;
besides, the French love us.
2. TO HELP ENGLAND-
(3) Because England needs help.
(I3) A grateful England may induce her
any Japan, to be good to us in the Pacific.
3. TO HELP RUSSlA-
. (8) When France and England repay the
billion dollars they owe us we can invest this
“mney in darkest Russia and double it.
(5) A native born citizen, I am not al-
!‘’‘’'''ed, on account of my race, to travel freely
"1 Russia. But if my adopted country helps
the Czar to conquer Germany in gratitude he
may grant me an American passport so that
may discover and visit the grave of m)’
father (Insert here whether father supposed
'0 be interred in Poland or Siberia.)
4- Because I stand for an arm)’ large
,e""“gl1 to annex Mexico and Central Amer-
ica’ t0 guard railroads and factories against
union strikers and put down anarchy and
“mlalism with a strong hand.
5- Because I can't stand for inhumanity’-
d911’t know what it means in war times but
I stand by the President to the last definition.
(Insert here what kind of munitions you are
making; your age and parentage; whethe’
resident or merely Professor in U01” “'1'
eye’ and which Peace Society you belong to,
ameyie or Clews.)
I Want Peace
1. Because I am an American citizen and
believe love of country should begin at home
and not go sweethearting abroad. International friend-
ships are a short-lived delusion. Witness the following:
During the Spanish war Ambassador Porter sum-
moned the leading business men and newspaper
proprietors of Paris to the American Embassy.
He then read a warning which he had addressed
to all American tourists, advising them to travel in
any other neutral country on the continent in pref-
erence to France. He cited instances of insults and
even violence to which Americans had been sub-
jected at the hands of French people of every grade.
I should like to receive from the Files of the State De-
partment a copy of Ambassador Porter’s famous French
war circular with his reasons why it was never issued.
2. If a million Englishmen and all the
F rench-Canadians are too proud to fight for
their respective countries I am too wise to become their
substitutes in a quarrel of their choosing.
3. Because war will add to the national
debt and deplete the national wealth. It will
put our currency upon a worthless paper basis, drive
gold out of circulation, quadruple taxation and double
the cost of living. Alas, I have no means of increasing
my income by army contracts or Wall Street specula-
tion.
4. A citizen of a free Republic, I once
fondly believed that only monarchs could
bring about war against the wishes of their subjects.
I Find I am mistaken. I find that one man in Washing-
ton possesses greater power and may exercise it more
boldly than a Czar, a Kaiser or an English foreign Sec-
retary.
Knowledge of such omnipotence causes me to doubt
its omniscience. I therefore appeal from Philip, drunk
with power, to Congress, sobered by responsibility. Be-
tween Washington and Wall Street I have been done
enough. What will my children get in exchange for my
life?
Trust magnates drive I0-ton motor trucks through
anti-Trust statutes and Supreme Court decisions. Rail-
road Commissions raise rates that should be lowered.
One man-a majority, with England on his side-has
talked the people's ship purchase bill to death in Congress
in the interest of a bankrupt foreign shipping combine.
Another man has loaned a billion dollars of our gold to
one set of belligerents on paper tokens of indebtedness,
while our own manufacturers and merchants are either
gagged or ruined by Orders of Council of the chief bor-
rower. If such things can be done in time of peace what
will not war inflict on its victims!
I, as one of the Common people, address you humbly,
respectfully. I beg. 1 l"‘Pl""e You to stop at this last
crowning perfidy of infamy. Do not attempt to pugh, prod
and drag me and mine like sheep into the bloody abattoirs
of Europe. That way lies madness.
Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , . , . , . , , , , , , ,
Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . ‘ , , , , , , , ,