The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-07

any such concessions, it would be nec- essary Ito wade up to his knees in blood 4to. put the popular movement down fagain.
 The Ireader will want to know why Liebkmecht has "spec1a1ized'' in anti nilitaFisn. Is 1t because the world is his country and he is more interes- ted int all nations than in any one? Undoubtedly Liebknecht is a genuine and ardent interna tionaItst, /but it may be questioned if this is bottom of his thought. In fighting against mil itarism, Liebknecht is also fighting in the most effective way monarchy, nobility, bureaucracy, clerica1ism, landa rdism-in a word. the whole social system of Germany.
 I shall indicate only the leading points of Liebknecht's celebrated dec laraHion on December 2. He declared that Germany for many years had been the accompIice of Czarism and the model of political backWardness; ;'' tha1 the war was in no sense a war of defense, but was mutually fostered by German and Austrian war parties in the darkness of semi-absolution and secret diplomacy in order to steal 8 march on the adversary
 Favors Immediate Peace.
 It might appear. then. that Lieb- knecht takes the position of the so- cialists of France and Belgium-that this is a,war against German mili- tarisn. But this is not the case, for he specifically repudtates that view in his declaration and attrtb butes the war on both sides to the desire of cap markets and fields Of investment. Moreover, Lfebkpecht favors irnne- diate peace, which would undoubted- ly4 mean a return to the status quo, which existed before the war, another point on which the socialists of TIV, 5 agree with him.
 zLiebknecht'ss tremend dous MO" in the Refchstag has gained the most currency abroad. but his work in the EPrussian Landtag has perhaps had even more influence In Germany In able to carry only half of the ten m members with him in his demonstra- tive protest against the government; but in the Landtag meeting af Feb ruarys g, the ten socialist members were unanimous in dacIar1ng:
 I've know that this war Is not de- sired by the people in any Of the countries participating in it-'' And when the conservative leader said something about the unanimity ofythe that he had no right to speak in the name of the people, and the LAndtae almost broke up in riot
 In the session of the Prussian Land tag on March 2, these scenes cOntin- ued. Lfebkneeht declared: Demo cratic, control by the people would have prevented the war; and it Is kweH known that the socialists were unanimously opposed to the declara- ltion of war to the very end. On the Following day., Vorwaerts repeated Ehe statement of Liebknecht, in spite kof the censor, using his very words: etDemocratfc control by the people kwou1d have prevented the war.,'
 The importance of the stand taken Roy Liebknecht and the hundreds of skhousands of German socialists that |Asupport him and his associates, lies f1n their readiness to enter into an tfmrnediate life or death struggle with |dthe German ruling class, taking full |tadvantage lof the critical moment. And in this position he has the sup ISport of the overwhelming maporfty IkOf the socialists of every country of tfthe wor1d-outstde of Germany and ls