People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Will There Be War? [ARTICLE]

Will There Be War?

Yes, we think there will, for capitalists want more bonds than they are likely to get by having the states pass road laws against the persistent kicking of the farmers. Yes, we think there will be war, for our military men want to show what they can do. Yes, we think there will be war, for we have so many idle and hungry men that could be conveniently gotten out of the w r ay by a war, then our pension roll isn’t quite two hundred millions a year while by a little war we can make it three hundred, and moreover we only have some three thousand crippled and disabled men when we ought to have at least five hundred thousand. Yes, let us have war, it is such good sport in addition to its civilizing and christianizing tendencies. Oh, won’t it be nice to just lick the Britishers out of their boots, twist the tail of the British lion till the old sarpint fairly roars with pain, and then think of the grand peace jollifications, how we will have fireworks and yell ourselves hoarse, but we must not think of the stricken father and mother borne down with grief over the son that will never return, or the lonely widow and orphans gathered around the hearthstone where the light of the father’s countenanee will never be seen again. Oh! yes, let us have war, “population is a nuisance.”