CONTENTS.

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Preface 5
 
Ready 9
 
An Insult from the Commander-in-Chief 10
 
Chapter One: A Confidential Word with the Man of the Working Class 11
 
Chapter Two: What Is War? 21
 
Chapter Three: The Situation—Also the Explanation 29
 
Chapter Four: The Cost of War—(1) In Blood, (2) In Cash 47
 
Chapter Five: Hell 77
 
Chapter Six: Tricked to the Trenches—Then Snubbed 107
 
Chapter Seven: For Father and the Boys 159
 
Chapter Eight: For Mother and the Boys—and Girls 207
 
Chapter Nine: The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash Register 244
 
Chapter Ten: Now What Shall We Do About It? 273
 
Chapter Eleven: A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class 317
 
Chapter Twelve: Suggestions—and What to Read 338
 
 
Illustrations:  
 
  Industrial Despotism, Craftily Called Freedom Frontispiece
 
  Leading Citizens—“We Want Wars” 31
 
  Leading Citizens—“We Declare Wars” 33
 
  Citizens Who Are Led—“We Fight the Wars” 35
 
  Hired Hands Facing p. 46
 
  Worn-Out Boxing Gloves of the Ruling Class 51
 
  The History of Ignorance and Meekness 53
 
  The War Is the Class War 169
 
  The Beneficiaries of Hell, Flirting with Heaven Facing p. 206
 
  The Noble Rôle of Cossacks and Militiamen Facing p. 207
 
  Preparing Boy-Scout Hired Hands Facing p. 220
 
  Four Victims of Cheap Patriotism 241
 
  In My Name! After Nineteen Hundred Years! 245