LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS
Lay Down Your Arms! _0 BRING about universal peace will be the great achieve-1 ment of the Twentieth Century. I invite the American women into the ranks. We are sure that Peace will be the ultimate...
...If we want service to occupy first place we must make it to the interest of the owners, and since the whole people need the service and to them service is of the first importance, dividends should be reduced to zero and service rendered at cost, so that dividends shall not be a factor, even of secondary importance...
...Teach the young to stand by this faith when they come to vote...
...Motive governs the acts of governors just as it does the acts of the governed and wise statesmanship would suggest that motives should be taken into account when considering the actions of men in both public and private life...
...They are owned by private stock and and bond holders, they were built and are run, not to furnish service, (that is only incidental) but to make money for stockholders...
...We are sure that Peace will be the ultimate winner, for Might is not meeting Might to prove the victory...
...And, as women, our fight means teaching...
...This is the "major premise...
...Teach them good will to every race and tongue...
...Teach them to protest against every opposing movement...
...WE MUST ALTER THE MOTIVE...
...HARDINGE OUR public service corporations revolve around the focal point "dividends...
...Teach them that the greatest protection to their nation is in its moral courage...
...Under private ownership DIVIDENDS come first as to motive, first as to policy, first as to fact, and it cannot be otherwise in private hands...
...Bertha von Suttner...
...Political corruption can be explained as easily by the economic diagnostician as yellow fever can be explained by the scientific pathologist...
...Might must show her hands blood-stained with the wars of many centuries, and must come under the judgment of Divine Love, which knows that no force nor enemy can defeat it...
...Teach them that fhey are the real Peace League of the present and the future, upon whom as an army, not of scouts but of lovers, the future ideal of this race and of ££11 races depends...
...A Matter of Motive By HENRYH...
...Teach them the courage to refuse to be conquerors...
...You ask what is the present hour's programme...
...Under public ownership the irresistible driving power of public opinion would place SERVICE in first place and keep it there...
...It is idle and foolish to blame them for this, it is in line with human nature, the law of self preservation and the further irresistible impulse that causes men to go always in the direction of the least resistance...
...Under private ownership of public functions it is so, and it must be so...
...If the people are the stockholders and the only "dividend" is service the incentive to corrupt public servants is wholly lacking...
...Teach them that the ideal of Washington and Lincoln was not to give history another "World Power" to deal with the rest, but a nation brave enough to unfold universal brotherhood, the final religion, to all the rest...
...It is folly to blame them, they charge all the traffic will bear, or all the law allows, just as does the boot black or the newsboy...
...It is also perfectly natural, it cannot be otherwise, either in theory or practice...
...Here it is: Teach a high faith in the right...
...Teach them to be inter-patriotic, inter-racial, international...
...Teach them to aim to keep their nation as the leader for movements for righteousness and peace among men...
...Teach them that your federated States stand not alone for justice to each other, but justice to every other...
...Teach them that good will is a stronger protection than armies and navies...
...but when privately owned the reverse is true...
...Give "them the vision of a united Congress of all States, working for a new international federation and international ethical co-operation...
...To change the condition we must change the motive...
...Teach them that the American ideal is the brotherhood of the world from ocean to ocean, straight through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific Isles, into the heart of the colored races, as a standard and an example to every other power...
...It is merely a question of dissection, intelligence, and investigation...
...Teach them that pure patriotism means world welfare...
...The graft money that corrupts our public servants in our legislative halls comes out of the service fund, rather than the dividend fund...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
