War Against War by Michael Kazin

Author:Michael Kazin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

FIVE

THE WAR—OR AMERICAN PROMISE: ONE MUST CHOOSE

April 1917 to November 1917

“There never was a war for which conscription would be crueler because there never was a war in which so many men so passionately disbelieved.”

—Charles T. Hallinan, AUAM, April 19171

“The government of a modern organized plutocracy does not have to ask whether the people want to fight or understand what they are fighting for, but only whether they will tolerate fighting.”

—Randolph Bourne, September 19172

“In traveling about your country . . . it does not seem to me that you have a surplus of democracy here—certainly not enough to warrant exporting any of it.”

—A British member of the Woman’s Peace Party, September 19173

“Jined de army fur to get free clothes,

What we’re fightin’ ’bout, nobody knows.”

—from a song popular among African-American soldiers, 19174

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