Frederic Clemson Howe

Frederic Clemson Howe

Frederic Clemson Howe

Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:

"There would be an end of war and preparations for war if the cost were borne by those responsible for war. There would be an end of armaments and preparedness if incomes and inheritances and the landed estates of the feudal classes paid for the protection which their privileges enjoy.

War and preparations for war are possible only because the ruling classes are able to shift a great part of the cost onto the poor by indirect taxation and loans. War expenditures are tolerated only because the burdens are concealed in the increased cost of the things people consume.


"The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out" has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers."
-- Frederic Clemson Howe - (1867-1940)