Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-10
SOCIALISTS IN
GERMANY STAND
BY "A HERLAND
Party Differences Fused in
CrucibIe Of War and Al
TeutonS Serve Empire Dur
Ing Gigantic Struggle,


rendrich. the well known scientist
loader and publicist, formerly editor
~ the Peoples Friend and one time
member of the lower chamber in Ba-
len declares that the first six months
If strife have proved the truth that
all Germans. irrespective of party af-
0liatiOns. are a unit in the defense of
the nation. He says, further, that the
war has taught the socialists TO know
and believe in national patriotism.
These views are advanced in a PAM
inlet published by Ernest Jackie,
ibus summarized by the semi-official
Cologne Gazette
The radical section, the extremists
Of the socialist party, Will not be
pleased by the picture drawn by An
ION FendriCh. German socialists have
always admired everything foreign, a
very great mistake, in the authors
opinion Socialists, he declares.
would rather have done homage to
some foreign enterprise bordering on
democracy and socialism than have
given due recognition to a more ef-
fcient undertaking that was merely
German.
Recognizes Middle Glass Worth.
On the other hand. socialists have
moderated the Importance of the
German middle classes, the backbone
Of the country and the vitality of
present economic conditions. At the
beginning of the war competent So
cialist leaders believed that capital
ism and The economic order result
ing from it would collapse. As mat
Ter Of fact, it did not collapse, but re-
NAMED firm and proved its efficiency
and power of resistance.
The German army has shown itself
to be brilliant military organization,
and socialists have seen that the spirit
Of the army is not seryile and despot-
Ic, a mere machine drill, but that the
relationship between officers and r,en
is sympathetic and comradelike. Foes
and neutral military experts have
noted the independence of the indivil-
ual soldier as a characteristic of the
German army.
Unity of Germans.
The sons Of princes and the sons of
the people fall side by side on the
battlefield. Their death seals the
truth that the whole German nation is
at war The prince of Meiningen fell
at Liege His last wish was to be
buried not in the hereditary dueal
vault, but among his comrades in
arms.
Just as socialists have been under
rated by their political opponents, so
have they had wrong notions of civil
society They know now and an
firmly believe in nationalism.
The internationalsm or the red"
party socialist cosmopolitanism, COD
hpsed when hostilities began in the
nf
International Socialism Myth.
Dr. Fendrich says:
AT international socialist congress
es the representatives had little in
common save the printed program.
There were little sympathy and sim
cerity Of feeling Bernstein and Kaut-
sky recently attempted on purely hu-
name grounds, from a nOnpolltical
platform, to cooperate with some
British workmen. They failed. Their
International enterprise turned out
tame and helpless, as pathetic a spec
tacle as the wild illusions of some
German university professors whose
fancy is overheated Now, along what
lines are German socialists going TO
move in future? They must oppose
the red natonalism' of the blood to
the red internationalism,' with its in
valid paper DEGREES.
This Is logical necessity that
workmen and labor parties feel as
national body Economic and pom
teal organizations full of potential
vitality. can only take root in native
soil The more socialist our present
government becomes by such legisla-
tive acts as the right of disposal of
private property the more national
our socialism must be.
Religious Growth.
German socialists must also learn
reserve and respect for other people 3
religious sentiments The hundreds OF
thousands of socialist workers VINO
are at the front and who nave faced
death month after month are bound
to have come face to face with SPIT
itual facts, and such religious reallz-
atoms must have appeared STRANGER
TO them and an even greater reNeid-
ton than the awakening OF thelf pa
triotism. However much thelr Gil
teal faculty will have our workmen
from being subject to ancient creeus
and old formulas Of faith, yet social
lists must respect the religious feNlN"l
which has made itself felt every
where since the beginning OF the
war.
After the declaration of peace lile
attitude Of socialists will De SliilP e.
There is every reason for us oeIns az
attitude of confidence, They ViaNe
for no revenge for the Affections
dealt out to them from 1878 to l69o,
They willingly forgive and forget thal
they have been misiudged. SociailSt7
regard this war not as a poltl IA
business. but as a national war
Iutupp Policy Defined,
From August there was coin.
muuitv of interest between German
workmen and the German nallo.
Therefore when peace comes soclai !,
lists will demand only that the natura
consequences of the war be acAleFC'u
and secured. Their sole pollcy VII
be to benefit the great mass OF th'
people.
The experiences Of last sumnle'
demand that we Germans shouiu ~
main a nation in arms Even sred
Optimists cannot trust the paclIic az
tivity of japanese socialists. Az ~
force is our present password. ~ y,
such an object we need miiiiohs ~
healthy children born of the PeopIGt
The next thing needed are soou, 9s''r
tary conditions at home anu Hou'i'''
reform on a large scale
Socialism will be a powerful re
form party in the future body pol ~,
For some years to come its polcy VIZ
be chiefly devoted to the man an,
interests Socialists will forge the LIZ 'm
while it is hot, but their policy WI,
AT the same time remain young an
plant, keeping an open MIND Tor ~
new order of things and co-operatIii.l
in the fields of intellectual ana splLC
ual development for which Gerhl& an
ls fighting quite as much as Tor ne