Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-17
SOCIALISTS Of
GE RMANY STILL
OPPOSED TO WAR
Publication of Powerful Or
sanitation Is Suppressed for
Declaring That Military Pol
icleS Are Wrong,
Associated rre.. ccrr.,pondencr.l


Rvrlim Sept 2a--Nlthoueh the.
German socialists in the relchstag
voted for the s.O00. 000. GOO mari,
tSt25O. 600. oool. appropriation to
curry on the present war. and ale
though the momherg of the party
went ln the front ms enthusiastically
as aid the non-socialsts. their polit-
ical creed has not altered They stan
condemn and oppose the polioioa of
the government and retain what they
term "elass consciousness. When The
take up anew the battle to free the
prolctarat from the yoke Of capital
and to take the reins of government
ont VI the hands Of The bourgeois
Publication Suspended.
These aims are set fofth hv Nor.
wacrts. the chief urran of the party
In a remarkable article which has led
in the indefinite prohibition of the
papers publication. This Is the see
ond penalty inflicted upon Norwaerts
+ its appearance havine been recently
prohibited for three DAYS because Of
Ian article swing what The military
! authorities considered too many de-
/ tails about the German campaign IN
+ the southwest II IL probable that the
paper had already come nth some
degree Of dsavor hccausc of It's re-
peated iniunctions 10 it's readers not
TO believe too readily stories of afro
( cities whether the allegations came
/ from the German side or the enemy.
Confidence Is Lacking.
The article that led to the ilnal
i suspension of the paper, begins by
referring 10 Germany's efforts ITO
make the truth known abroad and
to the alleged fact that these efforts
may not have succeeded fuzzy.
'rhe extent of these efforts Il Is
declared. SHOWS how difficult i i
ia create confidence In German rec
ports
The faet that foreign countries
/ Nere, for so hong deprived OF German
news, the article SAYS. was IN part
due To necessary military measures
! 1t continues.
"put this alone cannot explain the
extatinp difficulties 1t is necessary 70
20 back to times of peace to ma the
expIanation For long time a great
measure Of mistrust, suspicion ana
lantagonlsm 10 Germany has been
heaping up abroad even In the nee-
tral countrioa-and we now see inc
effects Of this
In part. Norwaerts says this was
ana IL Germanys sudden rise In the
economic world aud to fear ana sus-
plcion on the part of the great cap.
ilnlists. But THE ilngoes ABROAD
would hardly have had such success
with their propaganda If another fne-
tor had not been present. fhat ihhn
which developed SO nightly was IL
the same time that land which made
lis workmen present Of the anti
socialist law. and which Also after
ibe repeal OF this law, Instituted ~
police government Of chicaherH ana
allowed the equality Of all citizens to
exist only on the paper of the ffus-
Sian constitution
Thus Germany appeared to the
rest Of the world and even 70 me
working classes in the light Of "a pow
or whose rule meant militarlsm ana
political oppression. II was this that
made ii possible for that disirnst ana
bitterness 70 arise which 50 greatly
aided our hcllcose opponents IN thel
ruling classes. and which makes VI
rossible for MS 10 gain the sympathy
~ neutral countries only Win me
greatest effort. This explains why re-
prettahle pronouncements have come
even from the lnboring classes III those
lands. These arc rcgrettable above an
because they trs TO fasten upon the
German folk as a whole the respon-
sibility for the acts Of q single elass
Dlsapproyal Continues.
"rhe comrades abroad can pc as
sured that the German working elass
disapproves today every practical pol
iev Of state, Just as II has always as
IT, ana that il Is disposed 20
resist the predatory subjugatien 81
foreign peoples as strongly as the err
permit The comrades III
foreign lands can be assured that
thoueh the German wofkmen also
are protecting their fatherland' thes
wiu. nevertheless. not forget the'f
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