San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-05

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and other semi-official organs have,
during the past week, devoted more
than usual space to the proceedings of
the International Socialist Trades
congress, which has just closed its
session in London. The fact that
more attention than usual was paid
10 the congress was not due to recOg
milton of the special Importance of the
meeting, but the delight felt in being
able to expose the crazy idiOcyncra-
cieS of the delegates and the general
inaptitude of the Socialists TO combine
az a political factor. Following on
the Lille (France) congress of Social
lists, where the French members of
that party scoffed at the sentiments
of the German delegates regarding the
war Ratchet being forever buried, the
London meeting, where Herr Bebel
and Madam Clara Zetkin and other
German delegates were feeble and in
effective figures amid the general riot,
greatly helps to overthrow Socialism
throughout Germany.
The Vorwaerts, the principal organ
of the German Socialists, admits that
lut NOISINSS III -Ohuoh was " huiiiAa
iating spectacle. While infering that
the fighting and other disorder were
due to the absence of competent man.
agement in the proceedings, the con-
census of opinion, as expressed by the
press, is that the London and Lille
congresses ought to prove perma-
nent check to the growth of German
Socialism. Hitherto the Socialist
leaders, when tainted with being I'M
patriotic, indicated themselves and
their party by declaring they were
ready at any time to fight to maintain
the integrity of the Fatherland. The
language of the German delegates at
the Lille congress ignored nationalism
and proclaimed the solidarity of inter-
nal interests.
Commenting upon the scOrn with
which the French treated these decla-
ratinos the Hamburger Nachrictten
says that the Lille congress proves
that a solidarity of the Socialist does
not stand the test. 1t adds that the
German summons for the Proletarians
to unite does not find a response
among the Socialists of France.
The Munich Neuste Nachrichtten
lhdl lhS VI lutll DdChS
upon their fatherland by Herren Lieb-
knecht, Singer and the other German
delegates was received with cOndign
contempt by the Frenchmen.
The Frankfort Zeitung, which is
known for its intimate relations with
Herren Singer and Liebknecht, advises
the German Socialist not to talk about
fraternity where no fraternity feelings
exists. Such talk, it says, is thrown
away upon the French, to the re-
proach of the Germans, who caused
an outbreak of Chauvinism that had
been dormant for many years.
The Cologne Gazette says that the
Socialists leaders denial of having
any national feeling will estrange
many of their patriotic comrades, and,
finally, the North German Gazette
calls upon the German people not to
allow the Socialists to further poison
public life. The latter paper is
semi-official organ, and its language
appears to be a threat of renewed
government action against the Social
lists, but nothing can be learned as to
whether such action is contemplated.
If the delegates to Socialist con-
crosses continue to expose themselves
to such universal contempt as has
been showered upon them at the Lille
and German gatherings the German
government will readily permit the
holding of the international congress
in this country in 1899, which the del
egates to the London congress feared
would not be allowed. They there
fore arranged that in the event of the
German government refusing its sane
ton to the holding of a congress here.
to hold it in Paris in 1900.
According to the Socialist press the
funds of the party are running very
low. These papers abound in COM
plants that the comrades do not pay
their dues, etc. For instance, in
DOrtmund, where the party has many
thousand members, the collections
were not enough to pay the expenses
of their delegate to the international
congress. The Rhenish Saxon, and
Bavarian district committees have is
sued an appeal for money. The fail
ure Of the eXchequer is partly ascrib-
ed to suspicion on the part of work
ingmen that the money is not put to
the use for which they intended, as
hardly a week passes without a case
OF embezzlement of the party funds
becoming known. Last week it was
discovered that Landers, the leader of
the Masons at Leipsic, was using
strike money for his own purposes.
All these cases tend to make the
workingmen chary of the support they
they give the party.
An electric explosive machine was
sent a few days ago to Col. Krause, Of
the Berlin police. Fortunately its
character was suspected and the ma
chine was opened and it's contents rem
dered harmless before any damage
was done. The police traced the ma
chine and found that it had been sent
by an anarchist named Paul Knsche-