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Based on the above passages, what are some of the arguments against going to war?

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“This war is being forced upon our people without their knowing why and without their approval…I say again that when two nations are at war any neutral nation, in order to preserve its character as a neutral nation, must exact the same conduct from both warring nations; both must equally obey the principles of international law.”
—Senator LaFollette

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“To whom does the war bring prosperity? Not to the soldier who for the munificent compensation of $16 per month shoulders his musket and goes into the trench, there to shed his blood and to die if necessary; not to the brokenhearted widow who waits for the return of the mangled body of her husband; not to the mother who weeps at the death of her brave boy; not to the little children who shiver with cold; not to the babe who suffers from hunger; nor to the millions of mothers and daughters who carry broken hearts to their graves. War brings no prosperity to the great mass of common and patriotic citizens. It increases the cost of living of those who toil and those who already must strain every effort to keep soul and body together. War brings prosperity to the stock gambler on Wall street—to those who are already in possession of more wealth than can be realized or enjoyed. [A Wall Street broker] says if we cannot get war, “it is nevertheless good opinion that the preparedness program will compensate in good measure for the loss of the stimulus of actual war.” That is, if we can not get war, let us go as far in that direction as possible. If we can not get war, let us cry for additional ships, additional guns, additional munitions, and everything else that will have a tendency to bring us as near as possible to the verge of war. And if war comes do such men as these shoulder the musket and go into the trenches?”
—Senator Norris of Nebraska

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“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. And here let me emphasize the fact—and it cannot be repeated too often— that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace.”
—Eugene V. Debs, Union leader and socialist candidate for President of the United States, Canton Ohio, June 1918

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I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier
A song by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi

Ten million soldiers to the war have gone Who may never return again. Ten million mothers’ hearts must break For the ones who died in vain. Head bowed down in sorrows In her lonely years, I heard a mother’s murmur thro’ her tears:

Chorus:
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy. Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder, To shoot some others mother’s darling boy? Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It’s time to lay the sword and gun away. There’d be no war today, If mothers all would say, I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier.

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