The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-28
CONCENTRATIONS
 DEFEND KAISER AS
 A PRINCE OF PEACE

New York Aug 2S@The Chamber Of German American Commerce has issued statement to prove. that the Kaiser was a, man of peace and that the ambition of his life had been to make Germany the foremost country of the world in the arts of peace. The statement was prepared, it was ex- plained, because the chamber had reason to believe that many persons in the United States were of the opin-, for the present war. and that it was his am bition to become the greatest warrior of all times.
 The wrong opmion of the Kaiser which is held in the United States the chamber says, tcould not be con through the speeches and newspaper articles of the leading members of the Social Democratic Party of ths Ger man Parliament mediateiy after the declaration of war. s
 A previous statement given out by the Chamber of German American |sCommerce,A Inc, con taining speech of the Socialist leader, Haase, in the
 Parliament, giving the consent of his party to the passage of the War Ap- propriation bill. showed the attitude of the Social Denaoc crats toward the GovernTner1t in the present crisis. The Social Democrats. the natural enernie es
 of wars and old opponents of standing
 armies, resisting always the demands of the German Government for n1ili-
 tAry appropTiations, are bitter antag-
 onists of the German Emperor. They
 have made no secret of their hard feelings agasnst him, and showed this openly in words and deeds.
 Tt is, therefore, significant and makes for a true understanding of the personality of the German Emperor to
 know what the Social Democrats. his S%<ft[ Ex 4<- I- speeches delivered in mass meeting by their leaders. and in the articles that Appeared in their party papers. Ger man Social Democratic newspapers that arrived yesterday in New York speak in a highly appreciative way of the Emperorss actions during the
 present crisis. Emperor William is a Prince szof Peace He has showed himself the protector. of universal peace is what they say.
 Il Every Social Democrat who wish les to continue in good standing with his party must answer the call to arms l without delay, and in the right spirit To serve the Emperor at this time means to defend your own country against Russian despotism,s and every one must do his duty This is the spirit of the various proclarnations sent out by the Social Democratic press of Germany.
 s'The Vorwae erts, the main organ of 1.-the Social Democrats in Berlin, says in its comment on the declaration of war.
 = We were always open enemies of 1.-the monarchic form of government. And we always will be. We were of Iten obliged to conduct a bitter opposf- ton to the tenperamental wfearer of 1 the crown. But we have to acknowl- edge today as never before that Vii Eliarns IT., especially for the last few i ~ l1 -
 universal peace
 .sIn a mass meeting of Social Demo I crats, N. Fuerstein. Social Demo cratic member of the German Parlia-
 n1ent, said, according to Die Vossiche zeitung-
 We are all convinced that the
 German Government is peace-1ovfng l and desires nothing better than to up- l hold the peace But in the case of the I present war is the duty of every I Social Democrat called to arms to do his best fighting beside his fellow i countrymen. Especially when opera 1 tions are directed against Russia
 whose absolute despotism constitutes i $ menace and danger to civilized
 Europe
 .<eDie Volkstimme.' a Social Demo
 cratic paper of Chemnitz, published + recently, under the title War in Our I country an article in which it urges all comrades to set aside aims and 1 purposes of their party, and to have l inst one fact in rnind-that Germany I and in a larger sense, all Europe, is
 endangered by Russian despotism Each new day of war, it says vii revive in us our sublime ideas of uni versal peace of the world, but the l work of our ultimate goal has to cease for the present. Other dangers are 1 oyerwh elrnfng; we are all absorbed by 1 one ulIestson: do we wish to win the
 victory? And our answer is. yes"