there is not a single one who does not feel that he is of our class and that he is the enemy of yours, Mr. Advocate-General.
Ah! you put yourself forward as the advocate of society as a whole. You are under an illusion, Mr. Advocate-General. Here you are nothing but the official advocate of what is really the principal culprit in this trial, the bourgeois class, the capitalist fatherland.
CAPITALISTS HAVE REASON TO BE
PATRIOTIC.
That those of your class should love their country, gentlemen of the jury, nothing is more natural. That you should burn to die for it, citizen Advocate-General, I can quite understand. The country is for you and for yours a tender mother; she pampers you in childhood; she gives you a rich education; she makes your youth a happy one; she assures you honorable work, richly remunerated, long holidays, security for the morrow and for old age.
You would be monsters of ingratitude, unnatural children, if you were not ready to rush to her defense when she calls upon you.
I go further. I understand even that you should seek to communicate to us, the workers, your holy patriotic flame.
It would suit you very well, eh! if we were to remain patriots, so that, should your country be threatened, as it was sometime back at Fourmies, at Limoges, and at Longwy, we might constitute ourselves, in opposition to our own brothers in toil and poverty, the watch dogs of your moneybags and of your privileges?
How pleased you would be to see us, the proletariat, remain patriotic, and continue to go light-heartedly to steal, for your financiers, another Tunis, another Tonkin, another Madagascar, or to pillage Pekin once more in the name of your civilization.
If tomorrow your financiers and your diplomats were unable to come to terms with those of Germany, your
