I have no country to fight for,
my country is the earth
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene Victor Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday June 24, 1917
The Masses: Censorship, Conscription and Liberty
War and Liberty by Boardman Robinson:
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You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your own little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
-Bob Dylan
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 15, 1916
The War in Europe by Boardman Robinson
From The Masses of October 1916:
Detail:
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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.
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 19, 1916
Views on Preparedness and War from Robinson and Sandburg
From this month’s edition of The Masses:
In peace they starve you to your loathsome toil,
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death;
And when your life-blood soaks into their soil
They give you lies to choke your dying breath.
-Ralph Chaplin
Hellraisers Journal, Thursday August 24, 1916
From The Masses: War & God by Boardman Robinson
From this month’s edition of The Masses:
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Sunday July 23, 1916
From The Masses: A Drawing on the Fate of The Peacemaker
