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INDUSTRIAL DESPOTISM, SHREWDLY CALLED FREEDOM.
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(Illustrating the Wage-Earner’s “Freedom of Contract.”)

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WAR—WHAT FOR?

BY

GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK

“The cannon’s prey has begun to think, and, thinking twice, loses its admiration for being made a target.”—Victor Hugo.

“A nod from a lord is a breakfast—for a fool.”—Proverb.

“The poor souls for whom this hungry war opens its vast jaws.”—William Shakespeare.

First Edition, August, 1910.

Second Edition, October, 1910.

Third Edition, December, 1910.

Fourth Edition, April, 1911.

Fifth Edition, Thirtieth Thousand, May, 1911.

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

WEST LA FAYETTE, OHIO

Copyrighted, 1910,

BY

GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK.

All rights reserved,

including that of translation into foreign languages

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 350.

WAR—WHAT FOR?

SINGLE COPY, $1.20

Liberal discounts in clubs of 3, 10 and 25 or more.

By the same author:

THINK—OR SURRENDER

About 100 pages of elementary economics, politics and organization—forthe propaganda of Socialism. (Nearly ready.)

This book is dedicated to the victims of the civil warin industry; that is, to my brothers and sisters ofthe working class, the class who furnish the blood andtears and cripples and corpses in all wars—yet win novictories for their own class.

CONTENTS.

		PAGE

Preface		5

Ready		9

An Insult from the Commander-in-Chief		10

Chapter One: A Confidential Word with the Man of the Working Class		11

Chapter Two: What Is War?		21

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