Doomed; A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, Interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A PARTING WORD By The Editors What answer is to be made to the call for Atlism? Is our world, like Pharaoh of old, to give it a deaf ear? Are the insufferable plagues of Profiteering Capitalism to be borne, plague after plague--war after war, dearth after dearth, revolution after revolution, terror after terror? How much longer are we to see our loved ones torn from us, to serve the beast of war; our sons and daughters to be crucified on the cross of hunger and cold and depravities, bred by cruel want? How much longer is this hand of profiteering thievery, called civilization, to be shielded by the power of the law? How much longer is this whitened sepulcher of disorder and lawlessness to walk this earth masqueraded in the garments of righteousness? How much longer is this hideous mask of anarchy to go on unrecognized? How much longer is its pretense of property protection to keep the multitudes dispossessed and naked? How much longer is its pretended competition to hide the burglar's jimmy of monopoly? How much longer is its honest ( ?) money to go on picking our pockets and tyrannizing over us as master instead of heeding our needs as servant? How much longer is this Bolshevism of the rich to play havoc with us, and invite the Bolshevism of the poor to riot in its place? How much longer are our eyes to remain closed to the fact that all these desperate revolts at Profiteering Capitalism, from individual vice and crime to political revolt; from individual anarchy to the wildest extremes of Radicalism and Bolshevism; and from the common inadequacy of earnings, to the horrors of industrial crises, are all alike symptoms of the fundamental defects inherent in Profiteering Capitalism? Is it not clear that the clash between Bolshevik and Profiteering Capitalism is irrec...