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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday January 7, 1917
From The Masses: Thoughts on War from Becker and Untermeyer
“Now will you enlist?” by Maurice Becker
Tag: War in Europe
Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Art Young on “The Instigators,” Making Man the Enemy of Man
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your 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
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday December 17, 1916
From The Masses: “The Instigators” by Art Young
Thomas Paine from Rights of Man:
As war is the system of Government on the old construction, the animosity which Nations reciprocally entertain, is nothing more than what the policy of their Governments excites, to keep up the spirit of the system. Each Government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue, and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective Nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of Kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such Governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a Nation should apply itself to reform the system.
Hellraisers Journal: Hunger in America: Attorney General to Investigate As Working Men, Woman and Children Ask for More
You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday November 24, 1916
Washington, D. C. – Investigation of Hunger to Commence
From the American Socialist of November 18, 1916:
INVESTIGATING HUNGER.
Attorney General Gregory announces that he will investigate the “abnormal and suspicious increases in the prices of the various necessities of life, especially coal.”
If it is found that such increases are due “to conspiracy and other unlawful action,” the department will invoke the severest penalties which the law prescribes.
When hunger stalks abroad in the land, when America is starved to pile up profits for private gamblers who feed the war in Europe, the attorney general promises an investigation that will change nothing whatever in the general situation and will not put one single piece of bread into one hungry mouth. There is no law passed by any old party that prevents any business man from charging for his goods what “the traffic will bear.”
Hellraisers Journal: The Duluth Labor World Waxes Ecstatic Over Re-Election of President Wilson
He kept us out of war.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 12, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – Leading Labor Paper Rejoices
From The Labor World of November 11, 1916:
WOODROW WILSON RE-ELECTED
IN HOTTEST FIGHT SINCE
CIVIL WAR
The election of President Wilson at this writing seems certain. Considering the character of the opposition to his re-election the victory is wonderful. The power of plutocracy in America has been destroyed. Special privilege is doomed. The forces that have strangled justice and robbed the people for 50 years back are crushed. A new nation is born. A new freedom permeates the atmosphere. Human rights will take precedence over the claims of the dollar.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FACES TURNED TOWARD THE MORNING SINGING NEW SONGS OF LIBERTY.
Hellraisers Journal: Wilson, Democrat and Hughes, Republican: “They Kept Us Out of War”
But when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who’s given a gun
And then pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
When we’ve never owned
One handful of earth?
-Ed Pickford
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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 26, 1916
The Northwest Worker on “Political Saviors”
POLITICAL SAVIORS WHO WILL
“KEEP US OUT OF WAR”
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Wilson kept us out of war. Therefore, if re-elected, he will continue to keep us out of war. How, we ask, can any intelligent person assume that there is the slightest basis for such reasoning? We can imagine a person attributing supernatural powers to Wilson accepting it, but he certainly would not be an intelligent person, or let us say, he accepted it as a matter of faith, and not of reason.
If Wilson should be re-elected, and the country does not go to war, that faith would naturally be strengthened among his supporters. But, if, under the same circumstances, the country did go to war, there would be nothing easier than for his supporters to claim that it was forced on him; that he was not able to keep the country out of war, despite their belief that he could. That belief would be conveniently forgotten, and they would hate to be reproached with ever entertaining it.
Hellraisers Journal: “Victory” in Europe by Boardman Robinson for The Masses
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
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 15, 1916
The War in Europe by Boardman Robinson
From The Masses of October 1916:
Detail:
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Hellraisers Journal: Preparedness Logic by Boardman Robinson & Carl Sandburg on War
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:
Hellraisers Journal: Repression on the Mesabi Range: The Masonovich and Andreytchine Cases
There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal: Friday September 8, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Minnesota Justice
The Masonovich Case
INVADING MINERS’ HOMES
By OTTO CHRISTENSEN
ON the afternoon of July 3rd mine guard Nick Dillon, in company with three guards, invaded the home of Phillip Mesomovich [Masonovich]. Now Dillon, who led the guards, has served as a mine guard for several years both in Minnesota and Colorado. He has also served as a strong arm man identified with the assignation house in the neighborhood of Virginia, Minnesota. The notorious Dillon is known to most of the people on the range, and he was the only mine guard of the four that was known to any of the Mesomovich family.
When the guards entered the house Mrs. Mesomovich offered them chairs to sit down, but Nick Dillon replied that they had not come to sit down, but came to take Phillip Mesomovich and Joe Hercigonovich to jail. Mrs. Mesomovich replied to Dillon, “You fellows will not take my husband to jail before Old Man O’Hara comes from Biwabik.” O’Hara was the village marshal of Biwabik and the Mesomovich family lived at the Chicago location, which is within the village limits of Biwabik. Mrs. Mesomovich’s husband was asleep at the time, but came out of the bedroom shortly after the guards had entered the home. Mesomovich asked for his shoes and Mrs. Mesomovich started toward the bedroom when Dillon assaulted her. Mrs. Mesomovich told her story as follows:
Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: “Laying Down Our Lives for Their Country” by Maurice Becker
I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth;
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene Victor Debs
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday September 3, 1916
From The Masses: A Comment on War by Maurice Becker
Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: The God of War by Boardman Robinson
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
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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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