Hellraisers Journal: Preparedness Logic by Boardman Robinson & Carl Sandburg on War

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Onward, Christian soldiers! Rip and tear and smite!
Let the gentle Jesus bless your dynamite.
Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
Folks who do not speak your tongue deserve the curse of God.

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 19, 1916
Views on Preparedness and War from Robinson and Sandburg

From this month’s edition of The Masses:

Preparedness Logic, B Robinson, Masses, Sept 1916

From the Appeal to Reason of September 16, 1916:

                  WAR

SEVEN nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death.
It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen.
I was listening, you were listening, the whole world was
         listening,
And all of us heard a Voice murmuring:
         “I am the way and the light,
         He that believeth on me
         Shall not perish
         But shall have everlasting life.”
Seven nations listening heard the Voice and answered:
         “O Hell!”
The jaws of death began clicking and they go on clicking.
         “O Hell!”
         -Carl Sandburg, in “Chicago Poems.”


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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Sept 16, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67312334

IMAGE
Preparedness Logic, B Robinson, Masses, Sept 1916
http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/books/masses065/13


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Christians At War – Raymond Crooke
Lyrics by John F. Kendrick
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