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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I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene V. Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday April 1, 1917
From The Masses: “The Way of Ancient Rome” by Art Young
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday March 26, 1917
From the Pen of Ryan Walker: The Working Class & War
From The Northwest Worker of March 22, 1917:
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday January 7, 1917
From The Masses: Thoughts on War from Becker and Untermeyer
“Now will you enlist?” by Maurice Becker
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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