New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-31

,rstion has been successfully put over on
tho American workingman, who, though the
post highly remunerated wage Garner In tne
,uo,,d. has been made 70 believe that ne Is
the worst paid and most wickedy aoused
creature in all the universe
The Socialist party at the last election had
a glorious opportunity to win pubic sym
pathy and confidence BY proving itseh as
patriotic as other parties and by supporting
national preparedness, but a campaign OF TINS
kind would not have been in the interests oi
Germanv. To have taken this attitude the
party would have had to reverse itsef %
admitting that it had a country to defend,
something il has hitherto denied. So every
form Of preparedness was violently attacked
every one who suggested that his country
should have an army and navy capable OIL
defending itself against even impotent ht'ie
Hayti was openly accused OF being IN 'ne
nav OF Wall Street or the munition makers
and traitor to the cause
The protests Of the American SOCIALISTS
were met with jeers, sneers. and angry OUT
bursts on the part of their Teutonic KANE
RAIDS and the Russian Tavarishi. At the 81.
Louis National Convention the alien plotters
threw off their thin veneer of socialism, re-
yealeA themselves in their true light as a
pro-German party, anti-American, ant-war,
anti-everything that is dear and sacred 70
the hearts of those who love our country
and glory in it's traditions. AT this conven-
ton. the dauntless ship Socialism so dear ID
the hearts OF many American idealists was
captured by alien pirates. the Tavarishi OF
the East Side, and the Boche kamerads OF the
brewery bedizened cities of the Middle west.
No buccaneers of the Spanish Main ever made
their victims walk the plank or ever cut an
enemy throat with more relish and dispatch
than did these proletarian pirates, these po-
litical outlaws, these ferocious raiders Of the
high seas of altruism. No one of the sane
and sensible variety, no one with drop OF
American blood in his veins or an American
tradition dear to his heart, no one who loved
his Washington and his Lincoln, or gloried
in the brave deeds of '76, was wanted aboard
the Teutonic craft Of Kaiser Wilhelm. Pots
dam was at the prov, Potsdam was on the
bridge and the Ghetto and the Rsthskeller
fell into each others arms and wept for Joy.
Treason had triumphed. Sedition had won!
Traitors to Mankind
The economic paranoiacs and political rem
egades now in control of the alien Socialist
movement will doubtless poll very heavy
vote at the coming election all over the land.
This vote, however, should deceive no one,
for it has absolutely no connection with So
cialism. though it has a very real and SIMS
ter afiliation with Kaiserism and anarchy.
Not koe liet
the slightest inclination to tell the truth
about this great world conflict and our part
in it. Those who control and manipulate
these organs have been traitors to America
traitors to Russia and traitors TO mankind
and they have waxed so fat on the pennies
of the proetarat and have grown so bold and
arrogant that their dupes have already begun
Tin their minds at least) the process Of d.
vidng up, raiding the capitalstic feshpots
and If stern measures are not instantly taken
TO check these plotters, demagogues and
eXiled Lenines, we shall make the fatal mis-
take that Kerensky made in Russia and be
overwhelmed by Bolsheviki torrent which
may paralyze our industries and leave our
expeditionary force stranded in France with
out food or ammunition.
These revolutionary dark forces have BY
their vicious propaganda not only attracted
to their black flag the Stacker, the dreamer, the
coward, the copperhead, the traitor and the
plotter but inyertebrate, selfish humans, who
are filled with hate and resentment because
the President they voted for did not fulfil
the campaign promises of his party to keep
them out of war" This element, which is
astonishingly large, vicious and vituperatve,
has been so filled with pro-enemy poison that
it IL impossible 20 get it 70 see anything in
the light of sense and reason. and il is utter
ly impossible to make it realize the facts
of the war situation and that a continuance
of the peace they demanded could only have
been bought at the price OF national dishonor
and ultimate national subiugetion and slav-
cry.
Let no one be deceived as to the aims and
OBJ ects of this anti-American movement.
which are to stop the war in the interests OF
the Central Powers and bring about a dis
graceful and humliatng peace. The Bolshe-
wiki element here. just as in Russia, has
dreams Of an industrial paradise, which,
thanks TO mental attainments superior to