The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-07

Earl Liebknecht gained the ettei- ton of the whole civilized world by his courageous s1No'' in the Reichstag on December 2. when the Kaiser for second time demanded popular sup port in financing the war.
 When the socialist Reichstag group condemed him for his action on De- cernber 2, he defended himself as fol-, lows: A
 ''I voted against the war credits. because according to my conviction they were sharply opposed not only to- the interest of the proIetariat, but to the program of the party and the. resolutions of the international social ist congresses, and because the social ist Reichstag group has no right to demand violation of the program and of party resolution"
 A Conservative Radical.
 In trying to suppress LiebknecEt, the socialist party will doubtless meet the same difficulties as has the Ger man government, which has been per scouting him for years. Liebknecht is a conservative radical; a brilliant, but exeremely systematic and cautious lawyer, with a large practice among the people. and the highest reputa- ton with friends and enemies alike. The government has persecuted him because he has been the most for
 
 anti-militarist movement; but it has only been able to impriSon him once. and then only by the most. extraordf-. nary stretching even of the extremely severe German law.
 Ever since his early youEt L1ieb knecht has 'specfalized'' on anti-mii tarism. He has made a. study of mill itarisrn and the means to combat 1t, and he has become a. master of the practical methods necessary for such work in semi-abso1ute EGerrnany and absolute Prussia His anti-mi1itarism has been carried on largely through the organization of German youth for the purpose of general culture.
 Having led in this difficult and dangerous work for twenty years Earl Liebkneckt is the ideal of the majority of the younger German SO cialists. If a vote were taken there would, be little question that he would get at least half of the suffrages of socnta.ists under middle Age, though it is possible that his brilliant op- ponent, Frank who was killed while 8 volunteer in the present war, might have divided the vote evenly with, hinnh. Liebknecht first ca1ne before the. world at the time of his prosecution for the publication of his pamphlet, Anti-MfIitarismus It need mot be. said that Idebknecht by no means en-l dorses the insurrectfonafy mi1itaris1nl of Gustave Nerve. He believes the general strike at the. beginning of thel war to be altogether the most costlyi and least promising method of 'hght-l ing mf1ftarism-
 A Year As Political Prisoner ..i
 There can be no question that the real reason why he waSs forced to spend a year as political pfisoner wss not because of any real or tech nical Violation of the law but because of the successful manner in which hel exposed the bloodthirsty intentions of the ruling classes to use the army to repress any republican or democratic movement He quoted from the mem otrs of some German of high position. 8 conversation between Bismarck and kthe present Kaiser. approximately as foIlowss The Kaiser had said Hhat he intended to make no monentary concessions to democracy as his grandfather had made in 184S. Bis marck answered that if he did make