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Show 178 tears. Let us heal the broken hearts, let us bring peace upon the earth. These things the socialist feels and knows. And we know another thing. We know that we have the power to stop it all; that no war could ever he fought without us. FOURTH SESSION \Ve have fought COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY all the wars in human history. we have borne the burden of the anguish and sufferingr that followed in every trail, and now we will tight one more war, and this only for (ntrselves: Tuesday Morning, May 4, at 9:30 o'clock To abolish the social injustice that is the cause of war, that war may be m "4030" H. a . MUM no more, \Vhat happened in Germany a few years ago will soon he happening in every nation on the earth. When the ruling class of one nation shall clamor for war with another, when they shall d ‘mand 'ast sums of money to build battleships, to equip armies, the socialist representatives in the parliament of the nation inf volved will arise and say: "You may declare war \ainst them if you will. hit the workingr class of this country has no griev- ance against the working class of their country. And if you declare war you will haw to do the fighting yourselves, for the workers of this country will not fight and murder the workers of their country." The socialist movement will arise and say in the parlizunents of the world, "We are opposed to violence, bloodshed and murder. ""0 set-l: to establish justice that war may be unnecessary. ,\ll the world is our iatherland. All mankind is our brotherhood, one common 0'11er links us together in every nation. In every country under the shining sun and silent stars the workers of the world unite for justice and peace." And so when the cause of socialism shall have captured the parliament‘s of the world. then war will cease forever. Then will be fulfilled the words of the prophet who said: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning- hook. , nation shall not, lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Then will be fulfilled the SOUS: (it till: angels at l'.etlilehem¥"(ilor.v to God in the highest. and on earth peace. good will among men." At the Close of Mr. Thompson's address the ineetin:r ailA journed. Oman; I‘kA HALL HON. GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Presiding War Expenditures in an Economic Age This session of the Peace Congress is set apart for a special consideration of the interests of connnert‘e and industry: of the effects of war and the burdensome preparatinns for war upon mmmeree and industry. The, time was when war was the prin- Cipal occupation of mankind: when society was Hl'g‘lllZL‘tl for war rather than for industry, llappily that is no longer true. We live in what. as compared with all the past, is the liconnmie Age. the Age of industry and Comme . an age in which the energies of man are devoted to the arts oi production rather than to efforts of destruction or exploitation. This is an age of indi7 vidual hope and ambition. when men are struggling to better the naterial conditions under which they live, to unlock by st'ienctand industry the boundless resources of Nature. to surrntnnl thenr selves with comforts and benefits herrtoinre unknown or beyond reach, and to open the way to a larger and richer lit.- l-tll' tbx it children. It is an age of calculation and ana of ct St'kt't'l'lllg. when efficiency is the watchword and the tl . iina ion of was t- a study, it is not strange at such a time, when ttltillt‘ is wound for a thousand purposes, and civilization seems to wait on mean: to make its ideals: practicable, that the t‘tllvl'llltitH and e‘rnuinz; 'l'hi- ("Xl't‘lltlltflrfifi in preparation for war slr'uld be rhallenuwl. enlightened opinion of the world must agree with Sir lidnard Urey. the British Foreign Secretary. when he said a few days "no that they have become a satire and a retlection on our t‘i\‘lli/.;ttivn:. and echo his fear that if they go on at the rate at which tlny hartrecently increased they will eventually "ulanerge that eiviliraiii n. 179 |