the war? They expect you to go home and pay in taxes figured
into the price of your food and clothing, eight thousand millions of
English pounds or forty thousand millions of American dollars. If you
have any manhood, don't you think it would be fair to call all these
debts off? If you think this is fair, then join the Russian Bolsheviks
in repudiating all war debts.

"Do you realize that the principle reason the British-American
financiers have sent you to fight us for, is because we were sensible
enough to repudiate the war debts of the bloody, corrupt old Czar?

"You soldiers are fighting on the side of the employers against us,
the working people of Russia. All this talk about intervention to
'save' Russia amounts to this, that the capitalists of your countries,
are trying to take back from us what we won from their fellow
capitalists in Russia. Can't you realize that this is the same war
that you have been carrying on in England and America against the
master class? You hold the rifles, you work the guns to shoot us
with, and you are playing the contemptible part of the scab. Comrade,
don't do it!

"You are kidding yourself that you are fighting for your country. The
capitalist class places arms in your hands. Let the workers cease
using these weapons against each other, and turn them on their
sweaters. The capitalists themselves have given you the means to
overthrow them, if you had but the sense and the courage to use them.
There is only one thing that you can do: arrest your officers. Send a
commission of your common soldiers to meet our own workingmen, and
find out yourselves what we stand for."

All of which sounds like the peroration of an eloquent address at a
meeting of America's own I. W. W. in solemn conclave assembled. Needless
to say this was not taken seriously. Soldiers were quick to punch holes
in any propaganda, or at any rate if they could not discern its
falsities, could clench their fists at those whom they believed to be
seeking to "work them." Fair words and explosive bullets did not match
any more than "guard duty" and "offensive movements" matched.

Lt. Costello, in his volume, "Why Did We Go To Russia.", says: "The
preponderant reason why Americans would never be swayed by this
propaganda drive, lay in their hatred of laziness and their love of
industry. If the Bolsheviki were wasting their time, however, in their
propaganda efforts dire