Transform the Dogma of Nationalism

...Not that we shall diminish in any way our onslaught upon capit a l i s m , but that we shall intensify our opposition to the dogmas of nationalism PARTY CANDIDATE IS REEASED FROM JAIL S. Jessens, Socialist Party worker who was arrested for distributing handbills criticising the admin* ist ration of Mayor T. Semmesj Walmsley, has been released...

...Another doctrine that must be transformed is the current idea of "patriotism...

...He is not a man...

...Dum Dum's shoes...

...It is comparatively easy to convince the workers of the utter folly of going to 'slaughter in behalf of Wall Street and the investing public when profits are threatened in the Caribbean, in the Far East, or on the high seas...

...There ain't a clean handkerchief in my drawer, 'And gee -whiz, until, will you tell that pest To keep out of myirooin when I'm getting dressed...

...never reasons...

...Xo man can fall lower than a soldier—it is a depth beneath which he cannot go...

...Irwin C. Evans, Socialist, made a remarkably good run fbr City Clerk of this community, polling 342 votes to 402 for the winning candidate...

...If he is ordered to fire on his fellow-ieitizens, on his neighbors, on his friends, on his relatives, he obeys without hesitation...

...The good soldier never tries to distinguish right from wrong...

...Take one of dad's.Amt don't take /Vie best...

...Nothing could be more stupid than for Socialists to glory in the imminence of war on the ground that international war will soon be followed by civil war and the eitablishment of a revolutionary regime...

...they balance his weight...

...m * * The next one was a lulu, landing like a bomb . . . * ' * * VOt'R baby's crying, missus, fit to bust his hide, Torn in tivcnty places on 'the barbed-wire outside...

...The twin doctrines of national interest and armed intervention constitute the most serious of the immediate dangers to the people of the United States...

...We can't go out to get him 'Cause there's hell loose all around...

...So far as the American seine is concerned, the outbreak of war ia far, far more likely to be accompanied by a dictatorship of the right than of the left...

...If this nation gets involved in another war, in all probability such a calamity will be the result of a quarrel <>vYr the rights of American citizens in some for|}gn land or on the high seas and the effort on the part of this government to afford armed protection...

...he only OBEYS...

...Legitimate business abroad has more to gain than to lose by the abandonment of armed action...

...This work must go on with renewed vigor, but it must be supplemented with a simultaneous drive against certain dangerous doctrines and practices of nationalism...

...His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in keeping of his office...

...Success along this Hue would provide a breathing ipell during which lo make further headway in creating a Socialist commonwealth...

...The enrolling of t h i • resolute minority constitutes a major task of Socialists...

...He fa not a brute, for brutes only kill in self-defense...

...No true Socialist can accept the dogma of My country, right or wrong...

...Abandon the policy of sending armed troops to other lands—and half the immediate danger of this country becoming involved in war will be removed...

...W. Va...

...Down with the army and navy, We don't need ItillinK institution...

...lessen, candidate for city commie* sioner, refused to pay a $10 fine* since the old party candidates had) used the same methods In die* trlbuting their campaign literature...

...The way to remove this peril can be stated with childlike simplicity establish the public policy that when our citizens go abroad they go at their own risk...

...Moreover, the catastrophic effects of civil war in a high industrialized and densely populated country would reduce living standards to almost unimaginably low levels, and perhaps would destroy the foundations of orderly society...

...Arc they strong, arc they straight...

...Q^URE, I know my clothes are out^ of style, But who gives a whocpl .Will you look at that smile...

...Keep he „r.oys out of the armv...

...Public support for this proposal should be created, and the demand made that this country act alone if necessary, in abandoning the suicidal practice of relying upon armed action to defend American interests in other lands and on the ocean...

...Socialists are the last people in the world to rejoice over the danger of war...

...Will yon look at those legs...

...Even one million resolute war resistors could have a terrific effect upon public opinion and public policy...

...On the contrary, it is the inescapable duty of Socialists to announce themselves as war registers, thorough pacifists, who will not go to war at all for any purpose...

...Sure, they're expensive, but I'd rather choose To save on something else and get the right shoes...

...Morning, noon and night Socialists should proclaim from housetops the sheer insanity of war in behalf of vested in-tiro,is...

...A'ott' your bath is ready and your vegetables arc done, So don't cry, baby, here comes mother on the run...

...Unless drastic changes quickly be made in nationalistic dogmas, war will sweep over us long before S o c i a l i s m is established...

...He carried his own ward, 129 to 65...

...All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man^has been sworn away when he took the enlistment oath...

...Fortunately, there is an impressive quantity of evidence that rapid progress in this direction can actually be made...

...In the meantime, the threat of another world war becomes increasingly ominous...

...Disillusionment concerning the efficacy of war is widespread and multitudes of ourfellow citizens ase in a mood te declare that they will never again sanction or support any war...

...For this reason the president of the largest American trading concern in the Caribbean has issued a public statement opposing the practice of sending marines to Nicaragua and other Central American countries on the ground that such action is disastrous to business relations...

...Moreover, President Roosevelt has twice offered to enter into an international agreement never to send our troops a c r o sB our own frontier...

...We need life-giving Institutions, Good Vote at Philippi, W. Va...

...If he is ordered- to fire down a crowded street when the poor are clamoring for bread, he obeys, and sees the gray hairs of age stained with red and the life tide gushing from the breasts of women, feeling neither remorse nor sympathy...

...Sis, pick up your toys ami put them away,*** •Or conic here to mother if you want to play...

...He never thinks...

...QHOULDN'T the laundry hare hern hero before...

...Transform the Dogma of Nationalism BY KIRBY PAGE * " permanent peace cannot be achieved under capitalism and that therefore the primary task fcfore us is the transformation operative commonwealth...

...Vt he is ordered off on a firing squad to execute a hero or benefactor, he fires without hesitation, though he knows the bullet will pierce the noblest heart that ever beat in a human breast...

...To permit ourselves to be diverted from the central obligation of abolishing capitalism would constitute an irreparable blunder...

...J^/i'V ?.V, young fellow, like a good little chap, Pitt on your rubbers and take your cap, It's blozving'up cold and it's going to snow, And old man winter's going to lay you low, So don't be a smartie and don't be a sap, But pnf on your rubbers and take your cap...

...U is HELL...

...While in prison, she actively directed Socialist Party affaire, Her literature called for municipal ownership and civil service employment of the New Orleans Pub* lie Service Company "Your Baby's Cry in', Missus3 By Gertrude Weil Klein "^OUR baby's crying', missus, fit to bust his hide," She turns down the flame and rushes outside, "Don't cry, baby, here comes mother on the run, Did the wicked woman leave you lying in the sun...

...PHILIPPI...

...Here also we are now confronted with a tremendous opportunity...

...And if, in addition, the practice, of resorting to armed action in defense of neutral rights on the ocean is repudiated, there will remain only a remote likelihood that America will be dragged into war during the near future...

...And ten thousand others like him on the bloody, stinking ground A GOOD SOLDIER • y Jock London We are indebted to Comrade Frank Jeffries of Camden, N. J., for sending us the following definition of the "Good Soldier," written by that great American novelist and Socialist, Jack London: Young Men: The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier...

...She was sentenced to ten days in jail, which she accepted a* 4 "matter of principle...

...And if, after prolonged civil war, the workers should be victorious, the form of government set up would in all probability be Communist, not Socialist...

...Look at her toys aaover the floor . . ." • "Isn't, not ain't!—look in the litwii chest...

...B u t realistic Socialists are also conwinced that many years, and possibly decades, will pass be We, a full-fledged Socialist state is created in the United States...

...A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine...

...Hi, there, handsome, who you taking to the prom...

...Under the circumstances, what can we do about the terrifying specter of world conflagration...