Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-08-02


tion to Socialism of a certain mar
row-minded section of the Roman
Catholic clergy.
That the National Committee
themselves admitted this To be the
ease, is proved by the fact that
they have since passed a rule that
no member can vote at all when
there is no Socialist ticket in the
field. This rule was not passed
nor even thought of when Com
rade Berger advised his readers 10
vote against Judge Carpenter, one
of nine individual candidates, and
therefore Comrade Berger could
not at that time have disobeyed it.
1t has also been shown that
Comrade Berger acted in accord
ance with the tactics of Interna-
tional Socialism. The great leader
of the German Socialists, August
Bebel. himself said that the Ba-
varian comrades had violated no
principle, and not even the tac-
ties of the party" when they had
even entered into an open alliance
with reactionary party-some-
thing we have never thought of in
Wisconsin.
And the Hanover Convention in
1889 by vote of 205 to "a even
decided that the party should not
refuse to combine with capitalist
parties whenever the ease may re-
quire it. :" This rule is in force
in Germany to this day. 1t is
fact well known To those who are
acquainted with the international
in France, Italy, Belgium, and
movement, that the Socialist Party
Denmark, has on very numerous
occasions entered into OPEN AL
LIANCES with bourgeois parties.
Comrade Berger and the Mil
waukee comrades are earnestly
opposed to all fusion. We mere
ly cite these cases to show that our
comrades abroad go infinitely far
ther than we, and the soundness
of their Socialism has never been
called in question.
Ii has been objected that the
conditions in Europe are entirely
different from those in America,
because in European countries
there still remain many relics of
feudalism.
But in point of fact, even in
America we have one of the best
preserved relics of the feudal age
and one which has given most
trouble to our comrades abroad.
| refer to the power of the Roman
Catholic clergy, which in most
European countries has been used
to fight Socialism.
What has been the motive for
the alliance of German and other
European Socialists with the Glib
eral" capitalistic partiesG The
motive has usually been that they
could unite against the clerical
party which so bitterly opposes
Socialism in most countries of
Europe.
With such an opposition we are
confronted in Milwaukee. And
that is the reason that our tactics
had to conform somewhat to Eu-
ropean Socialist tactics, although
we did not go one thousandth
part as far.
The Socialists of Europe could
not conceive of such thing as the
removal of an old and tried COM
rade from the national councils on
such a charge as that brought
against Comrade Berger. In fact,
we can i'll afford to spare such
self-sacrificing and experienced
members as Comrade Berger from
our National Executive Commit
tee.
Such measures as the removal
of Comrade Berger from the Ma
tional Executive Committee and
the expulsion of the Wisconsin
members from the Socialist party
will seriously injure the Socialist
movement i'm Milwaukee and
throughout the country. The
capitalist press in Milwaukee has
devoted a great deal of space to
this matter and sneers at the "un-
just, cold-blooded, and tyrannical
methods" employed by the Social
lists. Such measures the Anti
Socialists declare are a sample of
what would be done under the
Cooperative Commonwealth. Our
advantage.
Lot tha MAN, haro af Tho Cna.o1