War—What For?
by George R. Kirkpatrick
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, George R. (George Ross), 1867-1937
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- JX: Political science: International law
- Subject
- War
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 58266
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58266
- Release Date
- November 10, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WAR—WHAT FOR?
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.PREFACE. — PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION: — Ready. — An Insult from the Commander=in=Chief:
- 4.CHAPTER ONE. A Confidential Word With the Man of the Working Class.
- 5.CHAPTER TWO. What Is War?
- 6.CHAPTER THREE. The Situation—Also the Explanation. — Capitalists —“ Captains of Industry ”—“ Leading Citizens ”:— — Statesmen — Politicians —“ Leading Citizens ”:— — Working Class Brothers — Off for the Front — To Kill “the Enemy,” Their Working Class Brothers : — THE EXPLANATION. [10] — (A)— Capitalists want war—because— — (B)— The politicians declare war : — (C)— The working men fight the war :
- 7.CHAPTER FOUR. The Cost of War—In Blood and In Cash. — SECTION I: THE COST IN BLOOD. — SECTION II: THE COST IN CASH.
- 8.CHAPTER FIVE. Hell. — Section one: Modern murdering machinery. — Section two: The silent destroyer—disease. — Section three: Peaceful slaughter—in industry.
- 9.CHAPTER SIX. Tricked to the Trenches—Then Snubbed. — First Illustration: The English in the Napoleonic Wars, and in the Boer War. — Second Illustration: The American Working Class Revolutionists : — Third Illustration: The American Civil War—The Bankers and “Promoters”—and the Boys in Blue : — Fourth Illustration: The Seven Days’ Battle—The “Brainy” Promoters and the Boys in Blue : — Fifth Illustration: “Freeing Cuba”—“Remembering the Maine.” — Sixth Illustration: Standing at attention for civilized cannibals : — Seventh Illustration: The American Cossack. [174] — A Workingman’s Meditations: “We Appreciate It.” — A special warning to the working class of the United States :
- 10.CHAPTER SEVEN. For Father and the Boys.
- 11.CHAPTER EIGHT. For Mother and the Boys and Girls.
- 12.CHAPTER NINE. The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash-Register.
- 13.CHAPTER TEN. Now What Shall We Do About It? — The Plan of Rational Mutualism:
- 14.CHAPTER ELEVEN. A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class.
- 15.CHAPTER TWELVE. More Suggestions and What to Read.
- 16.INDEX.
- 17.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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