The record-union., 1896-08-03
L Has Made Socialism More 0diouS In
Germany.
Unpatriotic Utterances of the German
Delegates.
The French Scoffed at the Idea of
international Solidarity and Revive
the Old War FeeIing-The Work.
ingmen Backward About Contrib
uting to the Party's Expenses
Internal Machine Sent to a Police
OfficiaI-Effect of England'S Pro-
test Against the Blockade of Crete.


OfficiaI-Effect of EngIand's Pro-
test Against the Blockade of Crete.
BERLIN, Aug. 2.-The Cologne Ca
xette'' and other Semi-official organs
have, during the past week, devoted
more than the usual amount of space to
the proceedings of the international So
cial trades congress, which closed its
session in London yesterday.
The fact that more attention than
usual was paid to the congress was not
due to recognition of the special import
ance of the meeting, but TO the delight
felt in being able to expose the crazy
idioSyncrasies of the delegates and the
general inaptitude of the socialists to
combine as 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
hatchet being forever buried, the Lon
Con meeting, where Herren, Bebel and
Singer Madame Clara Zetkin and other
German delegates were feeble and inef-
fective figures amid the general riot,
greatly helps to make socialism more
odious than ever throughout Germany.
The ''Vorwaerts, the principal organ
of the German socialists, admits that
the congress in London was humili-
ating spectacle. While inferring that
the fighting and other disorder was due
to the abundance of comment amid the
proceedings, the consensus of opinion,
as expressed by the press, is that the
London and Lille congresses ought to
prove permanent check to the growth
of German socialism. Hitherto the So
cialist leaders, when taunted with being
unpatriotic, vindicated themselves and
their party by declaring they We're ready
at any time to fight to maintain the in
tegrity of the Fatherland. The language
of the German delegates at the Lille
congress ignored nationalism and pro-
claimed the solidarity of international
interests.
Commenting upon the scorn with
which the French treated these decla-
Tations 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 summons for the
proletarians to unite does not find a
response among the socialists of France.
The Munich "Neuste Nachrichten'
says that the turning of their backs
upon their Fatherland by Herren, Lieb-
knecht Singer and the other German
delegates was received with condign
condemnation by the Germans. Lieb-
knecht's International protests against
the ACQUISITION of Alsace-Lorraine by
Germany only stirred up war feeling.
The protests practically declared that
the French desire to secure revenge for
the sequestration of the French prov
inces by Germany was perfectly legiti-
mate.
The Frankfurter "Zeitung," which is
known for its intimate relation with
Herren. Singer and Liebknecht, advises
the German socialists not to talk about
fraternity where no fraternal feeling
exists. Such talk, it 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 nnally
The North German Gazette" calls upon
the German people not to allow the So
cialists to further poison pubic NE.
The latter paper is a seni-officlal organ
and its language seems to be threat
of renewed Government action against
the socialists, but nothing Official 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 ana
London gatherings, the German Gov
ernment will readily permit the mold
ing of their proposed International con-
eress in this country in 1899, which
the delegates to the London congress
feared would not be allowed. They
therefore argued that in the event oi
the German Government refusing Its
sanction 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 bort
ynund, where the party has many
thousands of members, the collections
were not enough to pay the expenses ol
their delegate to the international
Congress. The Rhenish, Saxon and
Bavarian District Committees have
issued an appeal for money. The fail-
ure OF the exchequers is partly as
oribed to suspicion on the part OF the
workingmen that the money 1t not pu'
10 the use for which they intended 1t
as hardly q week passes without q
case of embezzlement of the party
funds becoming known. Last week II
was discovered that Landees, the lead
er of the masons at Leipsic, was using
strikers money for his own purposes.
All these cases tend to make the
workingmen chary of the financial sup
port they give the party. An electric
explosive machine was sent a Few
DAYS ago to Colonel krause of the Ber.
lin police Fortunately its character
was suspected and the machine was
opened and its contents rendered harm
less before any damage was done. The
police tried the machine and found
that it had been sent by an anarchist
named Paul Koschemann, who was ar
rested and jailed. Max Westphal and
his wife and Wilhelm Weber. all an