Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-25
THE HALLE CONGRESS.
Its Work, Character, and Iniiuence-Im- portant Questions Reserved for
 Future settlement.


 portant Questions Reserved for
 Future settlement.
 The Socialist Congress at Halle has closed it's sessions. It marks an era in the history of the Social Democratic party in Germany, and of the Socialist movement throughout the world. Its results are satisfactory beyond the most sanguine expectations. It has covered with glory the cause that called 1t forth, and those who took part in it.
 The large membership of the Congress, consisting of nearly 400 delegates in it self lent an imposing appearance to the occasion, and showed furthermore that the interest of the German workingmen in perfectng their political orghnlzation at all points has kept pace with the steady and rapid growth of the votes polled by their party at the recent cleo tions for the Reichstag.
 Another feature of the Congress was the numerous demonstrations it called forth outside of Germany, and that i'm parted an unquestlonable international character to the occasion. Congratu. latory despatches from all sections of the globe. the United States not excepted, | poured in upon the Congress, and Cheered | thpmemhers in their deliberations; chile | the presence on the floor of Eleanor | arx-AveIiug. Jules Guesde, Domeia | Nieuwenhuls and many others, demon | strated beyond Cavii that, while the So. cial Democracy of Germany is in fact | located within the boundaries of the | EmpIre, it nevertheless fights it's battles | beyond those boundaries as well, and does not allow it's spirit 10 be cramped within the narrow bonds of nationality
 When the Congress met, a cloud of wishes, hopes and prophecies from hos. tile sources seemed to hlacken the sky over it's head. The enemy considered it's dlsruption inevitable, detailed upon the sources of disturbance. and even speculated upon the effect of the longed- for split. Yet, nevertheless, the d0le. gates, chosen in free and open assem- blages presented virtual unanlmity of views upon all essential points. Nothing deserving the name of opposition materiallzed during the sessions. The question of tactics, the parliamentary issue, which had been raised by the hot heads within the party presented no difficulties. The path struck hitherto is supported and will be persisted in
 The programme, or he 1t the platform of the party issues untouched out of this Congress. A number of amendatory propositions were offered, but the view
 prevailed to leave their adoption, mod. itiCatiOn or rejection to the next Con. gress, to which they have all been re- , ferred. On this point a resolution from
 Herr LiebkneCht was carried declaring
 that the party programme agreed upon in GOtha m 1875, however excellent it
 may have proved during struggle of , fifteen years, especially during the
 operations of the anti socialist law. is no longer in touch with the times, and ' that the Congress, in view of this fact, instructs a committee to submit to the , next Congress the draft of the party
 programme as revised by the commit
 tee. This draft will be published three months before that Congress meets, in order to give time for a thorough exami
 nation of the new programme.
 The attitude of the Congress toward strikes and bOycotts Is significant. . These are recognized as valuable weap. ons in the economic struggle, neverthe
 less as weapons whose value should not be over estimated and which, in each several country, should be adapted to its requirements.
 Finally, the important question of the party's organization was decided in the only way ill which safety and order, and further success could be insured The } danger from the element of decentraliza , ton, natural one in all radical move. ments, was successfully averted. The officers elected are: President and Vice President, Gerich and Singer; Secre' s tarieS, Auer and Fischer; Treasurer Be- bel; Board of Supervisors, Fritz Her
 bert, August Ewald, kaben, A. Jacobey
 Schulz and Behrend; Editor-in chief of the party's organ, Lebknecht,
 From whatever side the proceedings , are regarded. they stand the test oi scrutiny. Wel-wcighed resolution, form the basis for solid action, and lay the broad foundation for the notification
 of all the clements within the Socia
 Democracy of Germany toward on,
 common aim.