16/31 Take heed, gentlemen of the war and navy departments!" At the same time, Sydney Brooks, writing in America, in Harper's Weekly, said: "You will not hear the socialists mentioned in Washington. Why should you? They will jeer at me when I prophesy, and prophesy with the utmost confidence, that at the next presidential election the socialists will poll over a million votes." The Oligarchy wanted the war with Germany. And it wanted the war for a dozen reasons. |