Denver labor bulletin., 1917-11-03
By FRANK E. WOLFE.

When you hear "pacifist" arguing
for peace at this hour-peace that
means victory for the most oppressive
autocracy that curses the world-make
a quick calculation concerning him.
That he is pro-German agent is a
certainty. He may be a paid agent,
conscious of the fact that he is an
enemy of the United States, an enemy
to freedom and democracy, or he may
be a guileless dupe mouthing the
pro- German preceptors who insidious-
ly have gained such ascendancy over
an alarmingly increasing number of
American workers, Socialists, radicals
and some so-called labor leaders.
The "pacifist" propaganda grows
more dangerous because it is insidious.
The agents provocateur of the kaiser
have learned caution. They seek to
keep within the law and their poison
of sedition is all the more dangerous
because Of the cunning way it is dis
seminated.
Democracy is at war with autocracy
and there is but one issue, distinctive
and aramount-freedom of the ma
slavery under a Prussian autocrat.
This issue, like the war for freedom
in the United States, to quote Abra-
ham Lincoln, will be "tried by war and
decided by victory"
The recurring pleas for peace are a
part of the German intrigue. To bring
about peace at this hour would mean
a world catastrophe.
President Wilson pointed out in a
recent speech that the menace to the
chances of freedom of the people of
Europe, including those of Germany,
lay in the power of the pro-German
intriguers in America to use the work
ers and liberals for their purposes of
destruction. He made the whole con-
spiracy plain when he said:
trigue, the intrigue for peace, and
why the masters of Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom
ises to effect their purpose, the deceit
of the nations?
"Their present particular aim is to
deceive all those who thruout the world
stand for the rights of peoples and the
self-government of nations; for they
see what immense strength the forces
of justice and of liberalism are gath
ering out of this war.
"They are employing liberals in
their enterprise. They are using men,
in Germany and without, as their
spokesman whom they have hitherto
despised and oppressed, using them
for their truction-socialists, the
leaders of labor, the thinkers they
have hitherto sought to silence. Let
them once succeed and these men, now
their tools, will be ground to powder
beneath the weight of the great mill
tary empire they will have set up; the
revolutionists in Russia will be cut off
from all succor or cooperation in
western Europe and counter revolu-
tion fostered and supported; Germany
herself will lose her chance Of free
dom; and all Europe will arm for the
next, the final struggle.
"The sinister intrigue is being no
less actively conducted in this country
than in Russia and in every country in
Europe to which the agents and dupes
of the imperial German government
can get access. That government has
many spokesmen here, in places high
and low. They have learned discre-
ton. They keep within the law. 1t
is opinion they utter now, not sedition.
They proclaim the liberal purposes of
their masters; declare this foreign
war which can touch America with no
danger to either her lands or her in
stitutions; set England at the center
of the stage and talk of her ambition
to assert economic dominion thruout
the world; appeal to our ancient ira
dition of isolation in the politics Of ma
tions; and seek to undermine the gov
ernment with false professions of 10y
atty to its principles.
"But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves always in
every accent. It is only friends and
ma IT iaaua of tho Garmap OOvarny, ont
whom we have already identified who