The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-08-03
DECLINE OF SOCIALISM
ALWAYS IN Rad 0DORIN GERMANY
NOW MORE ODIOUS THAN EYER.

Germans Believe Its Members Are Not
Loyal to the Solidarity of the Fatherland
Crazy Idiosyncrasies of Leading Lights
of the Party Sternly Ridiculed-Work-
ingmen Chary About Giving the Party
Financial Support.
Berlin, Aug. 2.-The Cologne Gazette
and other semi i-official organs have
during the week devoted more than
the usual amount of space to the pro-
ceedings of the international socialist
trades congress which closed it's session
in London yesterday. The fact that
more attention than usual was paid to
the congress was due to the delight felt
in being able to expose the crazy
idiosyncrasies of the delegates and the
general ineptitude of the socialists to
combine as political factor.
Following ON the Lille (France) con-
gress of socialists, where the French
members of that party scoffed at the
sentiments of the German delegates
regarding the war hatchet being for
ever buried, the London meeting where
Herren Bebel and Singer, Madame
Clara Zetllin and other German dele
gates were feeble and ineffective fig
ures amid the general riot, greatly
helps to make socialism more odious
than ever throughout Germany.
The Vorwarts. the principal organ of
the German socialists, admits that the
congress in London was "a humiliating
spectacle. While inferring that the
fighting and other disorder were due
to incompetent management the con-
sensus of opinion as expressed by the
press is that the London and Lille con-
crosses ought to prove permanent
check to the growth of German social
ism.
Hitherto the socialist leaders when
taunted with lack of patriotism vindi-
Gated themselves and their party by
declaring that 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
solidarity of Internal tional interests.
Commenting upon the scorn with
which the French treated these declar-
ations the Hamburg Nachrichten says
that the Lille congress proves anew
that the international solidarity of the
socialists does not stand the test. 1t
adds that the German congress for the
proletarians to unite does not find a
response among the socialists of
France.
The Munich Neuste Nachrichten saws
that the turning of their backs upon
their fatherland by Herren Liebnecht.
Singer and the other German delegates
was received with condign contempt
by the Frenchmen. Liebnecht's anti
national protest against the acquisition
of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany only
stirred up war feeling. The protest
practically declared that the French
desire to secure revenge for the seques-
trian of the French provinces by Ger
many was perfectly legitimate.
The Frankfort Zeitung, which is
known for Its intimate relations with
Herren Singer and Liebnecht. advises
the German socialists not to talk about
fraternity where no fraterna, feelings
exist. Such talk, 1t says. Is thrown
away upon the French, to the reproach
of the Germans. who caused an out
break Of Chauvinism that had been
dormant for many years.
The Cologne Gazette says that the
socialist 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 So
cialists to further poison public life.
The latter paper is a semi-official organ
and it's language appears to be q threat
of renewed government activity against
the socialists, but nothing official can
be learned as to whether such action
is contemplated. If the delegates to
socialistic congresses continue to ex-
pose themselves to such universal
contempt as has been shoWered upon
them at the Lille and London gather
ings the German government will read
lily permit the holding Of the proposed
congress in this country in 1899, which
the delegates to the London congress
feared would not be allowed. They
therefore arranged that In the event of
the government refusing its sanction to
the holding Of congress they will 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 Dort-
mund. where the party has many thou
sand members, the collections were not
enough to pay the expenses of their
delegate TO the international congress.
The Rhenish, Saxon and Bavarian dis
trict committees have issued an appeal
for money The failure of the ex-
chequers is partly ascribed to suspicion
on the part of the workingmen that the
money is not put to the use for which
they intend it, as hardly week passes
without case Of embezzlement of the
party funds becoming known. Last
week 1t was discovered that Landers,
the leader of the masons at Leipsic,
was using strike money for his own
nurposes. All these cases tend to
make the workingmen chary of the
financial support they give the party.
Fire in the Cramps Shipyard.
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