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Rh from you your sons, your only support, to make papal soldiers of them, or to strew their abandoned corpses over the desert plains of Syria, Cochin-China and Mexico.

We likewise advise you to abstain from voting, because abstention is the protest that the author of the coup d'état fears the most; but if you are compelled to cast your ballot, let it either remain blank or bear the words: ''Radical change in taxation! No more conscription! The Social and Democratic Republic!''

''For the Federated Parisian Sections of the International Workingmen's Association:

For the Federal Chamber of Labor Societies: