Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Book XI: War

Pictures of a terrible evil, and denunciations of it, which will be found especially timely at the present hour.

Sartor Resartus—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

The Soldier’s Oath—Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany (1859–1941)

The Coming of War—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)

Slavery—William Cowper (1731–1800)

The Biglow Papers—James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

The War Prayer—Mark Twain (1835–1910)

The Illusion of War—Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947)

Lay Down Your Arms—Baroness Bertha Von Suttner (1843–1914)

Before Sedan—Austin Dobson (1840–1921)

The Wife of Flanders—Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874–1936)

Buttons—Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

The Wine Press—Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)

War (From “Songs of Joy”)—William H. Davies (1871–1940)

Song of the Exposition—Walt Whitman (1819–92)

The Arsenal at Springfield—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82)

War and Peace—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)

War—The Great Indian, Chief Joseph

A Project for a Perpetual Peace—Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)

The Dawn—Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916)