A MESSAGE

FROM an English “Tommy”, who was killed in France in the late war. Received in June, 1935.

IT IS nearly seventeen years since the Armistice was signed, but there are many hearts that still bear with intense hatred on this side. Against the Germans? Not a bit of it, but against the War Lords and those who decreed that war should be. And that goes too, for the men who make war possible by inventing deadly gases and arms for all; profiteers in food and those responsible for this dishonorable practice. Blast them to hell!

We know, and we gloat! Gloat, because we know their pun- ishment has come upon them at last. When they gave the word we were rounded up and sent into the shambles at the front; and then came hordes of human hyenas, the jackals of war, who grew rich by dirty lowdown work on food at home—the profiteers!

The bread was not fit to eat, many staple foods were rotten, bacon rancid, milk was adulterated, thereby endangering the health and lives of the babies and children, causing rickets and all sorts of infantile diseases, and ensuring us of a future generation of weaklings and neurotic adolescents later on.

Do you wonder we gloat as we eye one those blood-suckers, those full parasites come over and face us and get the hell awaiting them on the spirit side of life. They are getting from remorse too, more than we ever got of hades in the stinking mud of our trenches. Did they think they could escape what was coming to them—what they had earned for themselves by their damnable greedy treachery, even though it was so long ago? Had they never heard of the mills of the gods?

And they talk war again. We who can read the hearts of those who desire another war can read their thoughts. We see Greed and Ambition, and nothing else. And as soon as war is decreed, then the whole mess, that damnable mess and its attend- ant horde of bloodsuckers, profiteers and crooked wolves in sheep’s clothing will be in evidence again; millions of lives will be lost, and no decisive victory will again be the result.

But as sure as there is a hell of remorse for the crooks who profited from the last war, so will we see the defendants called

A Message Feb36

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