New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Diverse Radicals Unite in
Patriotism at Minneapolis
Congress
First Business Is
To Win the War
Afterward There May Be
New Declaration of
Rights of Man
By Theodore Nj. Knappen

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/ Minnesota artillery regiment, hailed
rs the crack artillery organization Of
/ the National Guard army, entrained for
| Mincola to-day, while 10000 people
/ gathered in a patriotic frenzy at New
Ulm to wipe out the disgrace of the
( disloysl parade and demonstration re-
| Gently held there, and throng of
I 125,000 greeted the 1st Minnesota In
/ fsntry at the state fair, new patri-
otic organization, perhaps a new poiit-
ical party, of vast import was being
formed. The American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy, two hundred
delegates to which arrived to-day from
all sections Of the country, looks not
only TO the successful prosecution CT
the war for democracy, but, gazing
still further ahead, plans to hold for
democracy everywhere all that the war
has gained for democracy within the
nations that are battling for it.
Frank P. Walsh. over chairman of the
Federal Commission on Industrial Re-
lations, said:
"We are here to plan the enthusias-
tic support of the most democratic war
ever fought and to hold for democracy
the things the war has brought it. Call
it what you will-socialsm, if you
want, and | am no Socialist--we are
here to see TO it that the good things
that are being won for humanity in
the process Of winning the war are
made as sure and certain as the mill
tsry victory over organized autocracy
in the form of Prussian materialism.'
Bishop Busch Attends
Bishop Jacob Busch, of the Roman
Catholic diocese of st. Cloud, Mimi,
perhaps the most solidly German do
cese in America. came whole-souled to
the meeting, expecting to see grow out
Of it not only greater national solidar-
ity in prosecuting the war, but, per-
haps. a new political party which shall
proclaim a new declaration % the
rights Of man.
The leading spirits in the preliminary
organization emphatically state that no
new political party is contemplated, but
that it is purpOsed to form perma-
nent organization that will cooperate
to unite all the Democrats Of whatever
variety in the interests Of national SOL
idarity during the war, and TO hold the
tremendous gains democracy Is making
IN Ia ~ llgTIpp tho
It is held that this is no time for
statement Of the ultimate ends Of the
war on the part OF the United States.
it is enough for the present that the
United States is nghting a defensive
war for democracy, which must be won
in order that the world may be made
safe for democracy.
The new organization purposes to
demonstrate that all the real radicals
of the United States, whether they be
Socialists, laborites, agrarians or what
not, are first and foremost democrats
and strongly supporting President Will
son, "the worlds greatest democrat IN
the war for democracy.
New Educational Force
1--WE expect to create" said MT.
Walsh. "at the sessions that Will oegln
tomorrow the greatest educauCnal
force for democracy that America mas
ever seen. We shall take advantage OF
the tremendous gains that are the p;
product of the war and strive TO noiu
them. Every true radical IN America Is
supporting this war because II Is gam
ing more for democracy IN minutes than
would ordinarily be gained IN centuries.
"The Peoples Council crowo nave
haCaMGp of m
ability to distinguish between de
r,ocracv at war and a democracy at
neace. They are fussins over unlm-
nortart matters which are the neces-
sarv incidents of successful warfare
For any man or group OF men TO at
tempt TO express Americas war ENDS
at this critical juncture IS little short
of treason"
Risbop Busch, who may be described
ne an ardent Christian democrat, says
that the masses of the people IN ms
I Cburch are ready for new party
which shall voice the rights Of the
common man. He sees in this gather
{ ing the possibility Of the birth OF such
a party.
7 California's Idea
/ Speaking for the California delega-
/ tlOn, which consists VI lHIi "'H
who have been more or less acViNe III
I the labor movement and the Socihllsl'
( radical and Democratic movements III
/ the state and nation, }. Sutt wilson
/ former Mayor Of Berkeley and SOCIAL
! every hope we have ever enter
/ tained for the extension OF the prlh,,
cinles of the people is now menaced
/ ky tho ruthless and almost barosTous
/ T:vival Of Cesarism in the Prussish
/ military autocracy that now seeks Ihe
/ Jnr,;nation of the world. And What-
e,,er adherence there may be as 10 IN
tornsi social and economic policies, one
Sino,ie supreme task confronts us now.
! Thst task IS to make the world sale LOT
remarkable feature of the conven-
.;on is thpt it includes IN its person
III no less than twelve former social
az EDITORS and practically 81! me
/ hroins of the truly American section
% that party. They have not a6an-
Son.d socialistic philosophy, but they
Ssvc abandoned internationalism ana
,. .beir devotion TO the Republic and
Semocracy above all isms. Their gain
Ing here in numbers will doubtless
contribute to the organization OF q
rnrelv American Socialist party al.
tLouCh there are some who dream OF
na.tv that will satisfy them and all
The radicals without being branded SO
cialistlc