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"iere and in. Mexico, but such is the
folly of war.
In wars the strong nation always
takes advantage of the weak, robs
them, allows the capitalists to en
slave them, and gives soldiers the
privilege to ask the capitalists (or
whose gain they fought for a job.
After their enlistment runs out,
sometimes the soldier gets the job, as
England's soldiers got jobs after the
Boer war. Such is the glory of being
a soldier.
The papers are chuck full of the
"hqrrible atrocities" committed by
bandits on the border. I am of the
opinion that the news is so much
twisted and colored, so as to get the
public heated up to the point where
it will clamor for war and induce
young men to enlist for service, while
the capitalists sit down and wait un-
til all is over and then goes down
and gets the reward in the shape of
mines, railroads and millions of acres
of valuable land, literally robbing the
inhabitants. Gus Schneider, 4710 N.
Rockwell.
ing a big noise about the Americans
killed, but the parasites do not say
one word about the 2,000,000 work
ing men, women and children killed
last year by our industrial system,
through the fact that our safety laws
are not enforced. One more reason
why we should not fight: Remember
Ludlow, Colo., two years ago, when
the yellow militia turned machine
guns on the miners in that tent -colony
and 30 or 40 men, women and
children, were killed. Did the para
site and the yellow press say any
thing like they are now saying about
protecting American life. Just think
over this before you join the U. S.
army. Albert F. Gray.
AGAINST ENLISTING. Three
cheers for Meyer London, the Social
ist from New York, for voting
against a bigger ariy. The people
of the U. S. have at last got one man
in Washington who will vote for hu
manity and not for the flag, honor
and all such bunk. What is the use
going to war, fighting and dying, for
a flag when you can have all you
want for 10 cents a flag. What is
the use to go to war to fight and die
for a country when you do not own
one inch of the land in this country.
Let us use a little horse sense.
The parasites are making a big
noise about 100 Americans being
a Kiuea Dy vma nanaits, duc l nave my
W doubts about the report, because I
know Villa and have talked to him
several times, and I think he is too
much of a gentleman to do such
deeds as the yellow press says he has
done.
The parasites, as I said, are roak-
SU$STANCE1 Some Forumists
write about something governing
nature taking vengeance on people.
This talk of something more than
everything is quite childish. We can
imagine a-part as creating and gov
erning other parts, but not creating
and governing the whole. Imagina
tion doesn't extend that far, and yet
we prattle about unimaginable
things.
The question correctly stated is:
Did a part of the universe create and
does it govern the other parts? Such
a phenomenon as something creat
ing something else from nothing is
not now observed. We see some
parts modifying, assembling, uniting
or reforming other parts. For in
stance, we see artisans assembling
lumber, brick, stone, iron, cement
into a house, giving new form to old
forms, but never making anything
without material. In other words
creation relates to form only, never
to substance. Our individual exis
tence is formed from pre-existing
substance and is added to by what
we eat, drink, inhale and absorb.
Something from nothing is a trick, a
seeming, not a reality. Again, scien
tists tell us that substance cannot be
destroyed. Take 10 lbs. of coal,
burn it and save the ashes and heat
and you would still have 10 lbs. of,
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