it is the very fittest young men of the race that have been slaughtered. The impotent, crippled, weak, and diseased are spared. A survival of the unfittest! Why? Simply because that is the only plan of world government we have. Is it not inconceivable that, to settle disputes between nations, we should have to resort to such a monstrously inhuman and wasteful process? And is it not the plain duty of the United States to make the first move toward getting out of this riot of anarchy, and from its vantage ground of sanity propose to all nations that world federation now begin? To do this would be at least a step toward ending war. Tuesday, January 5, 1915. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF PEOPLE of the world, it is time for you to awake, to see the goal you want to reach and to go straight to it. You are harried, decimated, impoverished by the absence of world government. Each nation is a law unto itself, which means lawlessness. Wars are caused by this state of things. People of Europe, German, Russian, French, Austrian, Servian, English, any way this war ends will make no difference; YOU must pay the piper. Kings and certain other privileged classes may reap distinction, reward in money and the gratification of vengeance; YOUR portion will be slain husbands, heartbroken widows, orphaned children, burden of taxes, harder conditions of labor, and the destruction of your business. Do not wait, therefore, for your politicians to move. Act yourselves! Do it now! Do not ask for PEACE! That will be MISUNDERSTOOD as meaning cowardice. and surrender. Ask for LAW, for some intelligence in world government, for the united nations of the world. Do this one thing, and this only, for it is the only thing that can save you! As Professor Charles P. Fagnani of Columbia University says, "Peace and disarmament are by-products. They will come as the result of the federation of the political units of the world, NOT BEFORE AND NOT OTHERWISE." Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the distinguished German Socialist, declares: "Nowhere have the masses desired this war. Why should they, then, murder each other to finish it? It would be a sign of weakness, it is said, for any one people to suggest peace. Well, let all the people suggest it together. The nation which speaks first will not show weakness, but strength, and will win glory and the gratitude of posterity. "Already among the German workers there is far greater opposition to the war than is generally supposed, and the louder the echo of the cry for peace in other countries the more vehemently and energetically will they work for peace here." The death of war does not depend upon this or that nation's success. It depends on whether or not we get world federation. The present conflict, as its beginning was causeless, so will its end be futile. Unless we get some sort of world force by federation the people will again and again be desolated by war's madness. It is all important that you see and know what it is you want. You don't want Germany to conquer, nor England to conquer, nor Russia to conquer. You want law to conquer. And there's only one way to accomplish that. Nationalism and patriotism cannot help you. Only HUMANITY can save you. Only in the oneness of world government is there hope for any people, great or small, Germany or Belgium, Austria or Servia. You can have this if you want it. You must agitate. You must arouse. You must create public opinion. You must kindle an international fire that shall consume all war possibilities in the flames of reason. For world government will never come DOWN FROM THE RULERS, whether kings, presidents, or senates; it will come UP FROM THE PEOPLE; it will come only |