“For three months after the United States declared war on Germany the Masses kept on assailing the jingoists, the profiteers, and the capitalists who caused the beating and deportation of strikers, the Post Office censorship, and other evils which had been loosed in the campaign to silence all critics of the war administration.” WarGermanyCensorshipWorld War IPost OfficeWorld War 1Capitalists Book:Art Young: His Life and Times Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“Slacker had come into the language as a term of frequent use. Bundles of Hearst newspapers had been burned in Times Square because Hearst was slow in swinging to the Allied cause but in a few weeks he had swung, and American flags were printed all over his daily sheets. So-called pro-Germans were being tarred and feathered by mobs in the West. Frank Little of the I.W.W. executive board had been lynched by business men in Butte, Montana. And new and appalling tales of cruelty to conscientious objectors were coming out of the prisons where they were confined.” PrisonWorld War IMontanaWorld War 1IwwWilliam Randolph Hearst Author:Art Young
“the big war of 1914-1918 was not my war. It was plainly not a war for democracy but for plutocracy; not for peace but for plunder, and to make our country military-minded. It was capitalism's war-not mine.” WarPeaceDemocracyMilitaryCapitalismWorld War IPlutocracyWaorld War 1 Book:Art Young: His Life and Times Source: Art Young: His Life and Times