| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1426 |
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`Is there any more questions?' cried Philpot. `Is it true,' said Easton, `that Socialists intend to do away with the Army and Navy?' `Yes; it is true. Socialists believe in International Brotherhood and peace. Nearly all wars are caused by profit-seeking capitalists, seeking new fields for commercial exploitation, and by aristocrats who make it the means of glorifying themselves in the eyes of the deluded common people. You must remember that Socialism is not only a national, but an international movement and when it is realized, there will be no possibility of war, and we shall no longer seed to maintain an army and navy, or to waste a lot of labour building warships or manufacturing arms and ammunition. All those people who are now employed will |
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