The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.