The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-12-17

Socialists, but it is reprinted here that
you may be able to show from republic
can authority to yonr republican neigh
bors some important facts relative to
the Socialist movement:
"The letter of Mr.. Folen, repudiating
for true Socialists all sympathy with an
archism, is correct statement OF the
present attitude of the Socialist leaders
in Germany, France, Austria and Italy.
In Germany the Socialist party broke
with the extreme revolutionists among
them in 1891, when the Erfurt congress
expelled the extreme revolutionary
remnant from membership and passed a
resolution to the effect that henceforth
the Social Democratic party was polit-
ical and parliamentary party. On this
occasion the great Socialist leader, Lieb-
knecht, said; Revolutionary methods
were the methods OF anarchists, and an
archists achieve nothing but the alien
ating of workingmen. With their sense
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done nothing for the proletariat, and
have merely worked into the hands of
their adversaries.' The example set by
the German Socialists at Erfurt in 1891
was followed by those OF Austria and
Italy the next year, and by the Interna-
tional Socialist Congress at London in
1896. Belief in parliamentary action was
made condition OF membership in the
last named congress, and even believers
in revolution by a universal strike,
were by very large majority excluded
"The Socialist vote at the elections for
the German reichstag in 1898 was 2,l20,-
GOO, or one-third the whole poll, and the
party returned 81 out OF the 397 members
OF the reichstag. The Socialist party in
Germany now boasts that they are not
only scientific, but a practical party,
so much so that the Socialist leader,
Babel, says that they ars supported at
the polls by thousands of voters who are
not technical Socialists, but believe that
the Social Democrats constitute the only
] party ready to give little present help
and redress of grievances that are act
ually expressing them.
"The committee of the Socialist Dem
ocratic congress at Frankfort in 1894.
while it proposed to nationalize the large
estates, recommended that the peasant
should be left in possession OF his prop
erty, and that state bank be established
to take over his mortgages and charge
him the lowest possible rate of interest
This proposal, while it was supported
J by Bebel, was rejected at the Breslau
/ congress of 1895, but it is believed that
the Social Democrats of Germany will
ultimately occupy the ground taken in
I 1894 by the French Socialists at the con-
gress OF Nantes, who declared in favor
of the perpetuation OF peasant property,
saying that Socialism had noquarrel with
producers owning their own means, but
only with non-producers owning other
peoples means of producing; that the
peasant lie as much the instrument of
his labor as is the carpenters plane
''ln France the Socialist vote in 1898
was nearly $4,000. The party has now
thirty-eight seats in the chamber of depu-
ties, and two of the Socialist deputies,
Millerand and Baudin, are members of
the cabinet. The vast majority of
French Socialists, like the German
Socialists, are parlimentarians and ar
dent Social reformers rather than dog
matte theorists. Millerand favors COM