New-York tribune., 1917-12-08
By Charles Noel Douglas

thirty odd thousand votes. gentleman OF
foreign birth, Hebraic psrentage, pro-German
affiliations and Teutonic sympathes, running
on an anti-Amercan, anti-war, save your KIN
and skin, peace at any price, anti-patrlotie
platform, suddenly attracts to his standard
ministers, professors, prominent politicians
slackers, dresmers, Copperheads, disloyailsts,
and with shouts Of "On to the City Halll
and later "On TO Washington" polls vote
five times larger than his Gentle, patriotle
predecessor had ever done in the whole MIS-
tory Of the movement!
Strange to say, the alien human hotsam ana
jetsam of our cosmopolitan city try to 1901
themselves and the public generally with inc
idea that this was victory for Socialism
As matter of fact that vote had as mucn
connection with Socialism as the Kaiser ana
his junkers have with popular government or
as a tramp has with a soap factory.
May | be permitted to impress on mr.
Cattell the fact, of which he and many others
seem to be sublimely ignorant, that there -
no longer Socialist party in the Unfed
States? All who are Socialists and not mere
economic paranoiacs, alien plotters ana dls-
loyalsts, have long ago left the Germanized
party. which is now but a rallying place for
but not ready TO bleed for it. These craven
elements care only for self and the pursuit
of profit and pleasure, shun their obligations,
revle the land that feeds and protects them,
and are ignobly and viciously vocal in all
periods of stress, when sacrifice and service
alone can vindcate our national honor and
keep our shores inviolate.
Professor Cattell need not worry about
the Socialist press, for there is no such
thing as Socialist press existing in this
country to-day. II there we're 1t would be
welcome to the mails and no government
official would have the slightest desire TO
interfere with it. There ere, however,
number of pro-German, Bolshevikist pubIica-
tions with strong anarchistic tendencies, but
these cannot be dignifed nor by any stretch
of imagination be characterized as social
istic
The Good Old Consultation
Any man who has had any connection with
the Socialist movement in this country Will
chuckle inwardly when he notes Mr.. Cattells
solemn reference to the Constitution. mat
good old Constitution, from the Socialist
point of view, is mere scrap OF paper
and joke of gigantic proportions; in short,
a bulwark of capitalism. Only that part OF
the Constitution which guarantees free
speech and the right of assembly has ever
received the Endorsement and approval OF
Socialists. When the Socialist spouts treason
and revolution from his soap box and comes
in contact with the Law he drags out the
Constitution and from behind this hosry
document makes revolutionary grimaces at
the Tammany judges.
The Socialists that are Socialists and the
only ones that Professor Cattell need worry
about or consider have but one thought in
mind, and that is TO whip Germany, down
Kaiserism, junkerism and militarism, and
make the world a safe, sane and decent
place for rational human beings to live in.
To accomplish this job. they are willing,
if need be, to throw the Constitution into
the discard and keep their tongues silent
for thousand years. American Socialists,
however. know that no official will ever
interfere with any speech that comes from
their lips, for their speech in this hour
of world crisis bears no taint Of treason
or sedition.
As far as the Germanized Socialist" press
is concerned, it would afford all genuine
Socialists intense delight to see the gov
ernment of this country extend to it the
same treatment that those glorious apostles
of Prussian freedom, Trotzky and Lenine,
are melting out to those who conduct publi-
cations in Russia that oppose their views.
If some of the editors of these rebellious
and insolent sheets could be sent to some
convenient DEVILS Island for the remainder
of the war they would not be missed What
the gagged minority" would do if it sud
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