Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-12

New York, May 12.-American So
cialists sent word to their colleagues
of Germany today that the kaiser ana
kaiserism must go; that the war
against Germany must be continued by
the democratic people of the world un-
til this result is achieved.
The message was cabled by the ma
tonal executive committee or Soclal-
lists of America to Socialists In SOCK
holm, Copenhagen, The hague ana
Berne with specific request that ITS
text be forwarded to German Social
lists.
Names of Americas most prominent
Socialists were affixed to the message
including Charles Edward Russell, j.
G. Phelps Stokes, William English
walling, Rose Pastor Stokes and
~ ONE WAY TO END WAR.
"There is only one way to bring the
war to an early end" the appeal as
serted. ''That is the kaiser must CO."
The Socialists message comes at a
time when German Socialists, or
pseudo Socialists, who are govern
ment agents, are working vigorously
under sanction of the German govern
ment itself to persuade and coax Rus
sian liberals into a German made
peace. 1t comes just before meeting
of Socialists in Stockholm, called for
June and which has suspicious German
antecedents and personnel.
The message constitutes a virtual
appeal to the German Socialists that
if they are in sarnest about peace they
can bring about the end of the war
very quickly by overthrowing the
kaiser and his autocratic governmental
machine.
MUST OVERTHROW KAISER.
THE democratic peoples of the world
now in league against the kaiser and
kaiserism will be compelled to continue
their war against Germany and her
autocratic allies until the kaiser and
kaiserism are overthrown," the mes
sage read.
THE German Socialist faction that
opposes the government has already
realized that both an early peace and
German liberty require that the power
of the kaiser should be rigidly and i'm
mediately curtailed and they have an
nounced the following program as a
cure for kaiserism:
Responsibility of the government to
the reichstag, reichstag control of
peace and war; equal reichstag election
districts; abolition of the upper houses
of the states and empire; as we'll as
equal suffrage in Prussia-noH appar-
emily on the way to accomplishment,
though not yet promised, even after
the war
This program is fundamental and
excellent-so excellent indeed, that it is
extremely unlikely TO be granted with
out protracted series of overwhelming
German defeats. 1t is fully half of
what is needed. But it is not sufficient
The Hohenzollerns must go.
PEACE WOULD BE SHAM.
"The rest of the world realizes,
whether the German people realize or
not, that liberty in Germany and peace
in the world must remain sham as
long as the Hohenzollerns and their
supporters retain any real power.
I'VE have reason to suppose that
the most courageous and representa-
tive spokesmen of the German people
also held this view before the war
when half a hundred opposition So
cialists compelled the whole Socialist
group to demonstrate their republican
Ism and practically to commit the crime
of lese majestic by remaining seated
and silent in the reichstag when cheers
for the kaiser were called for at the
close of the session.
"The other day Ledebour the spokes-
man for what remains of this group.
again declared his republican faith in
the reichstag. We hope that republi-
canism is again on the rise and that II
Will soon equal and surpass the repub-
ucanism that existed before the war.
POWER MUST BE BROKEN.
but whether Germany prefers a
republic or constitutional monarchy.
the Hohenzollerns' tradition and pres
tige must not only be reformed-it must
be broken. The kaiser himself claims
that kaiserism is to be democratized |
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