The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
KAISER CATSPAW
Stockholm Socialist Conference
Just a German Plot.
That Is Belief of the Officials in
Washington.
FORCE RUSSIA into PEACE
American Socialists See Grave
Danger to the Allies.
Delegates From England and
the c. s. to Attend.
FORCE RUSSIA into PEACE

Washington, May 9--The state de-
partment has semi officially branded
the International Socialist conference
TO be held in Stockholm in June as
the most dangerous of all the kaiser's
plots"
The committee on public informa
ton Of the department issued an an
nouncement quoting Socialist leaders
of the United States as saying efforts
were Being made to get large num-
holm meetings and force separate
peace with Germany
The frank declaration was made
today" the official statement said,
that the one purpose of the confer
ence is to lure large Russian delega-
ton to the Swedish capital, to con-
centrate against them all the German
and pro-German forces of the world
and to persuade them to get councils
of workmen's and soldiers deputies to
issue this uItimatum to the entente:
If you do not accept the peace terms
of the Berlin Socialists we shall force
Russia into a separate peace
Socialist leaders here include VIII
liam English WaIIing. Charles Edward
Russell and Ernest Poole According
TO the official statement, they foresee
in the conference in June an attempt
upon the part of the German govern
ment TO make a cats paw out of the
Socialist party.
A Deep. Dark Plot.
TT is another attempt of the Prus-
sian miIitarists to line up the we'll
meaning pacifists and working people
of the world on Germany's next
/ peace program which is to result in
a new empire extending from Berlin
10 Bagdad. - the condemning statement
of the Socialists to the state depart
meut said
This conference is not summoned
as 4 genuine international conference
would be. VanderveIde, of Belgium
the chairman of the international
Socialist bureau. did not call it and
refused even to attend. Neither will
it be attended by the British labor
party nor the French Socialist party.
But it will have delegates from the two
Socialist parties of England the
French minority. most of the Russian
factions the Italian and American or
CARNATIONS as well as those of the
smaller countries of Europe
The American public does not
need to be introduced to the American
delegates, HilIquit or AIgernon Lee,
whose pro-Gerua nism has led them
to the point that they are accused by
the best known Socialists of this
country of having recently put thru
an auCi-wzr- resolution that attempts
to treason against the United States
The first America heard of this
new formula no annexations. no in
( IDENTITIES was when the council of
wor1men's and soldiers deputies.
which is now the real government of
Russia. adopted it almost unanimous
ly several weeks ago, being persuad-
ed by certain Russian Socialist groups
which now. as for the last forty years,
get their logic. in fact. their prin-
cipIes and their practice from Berlin.
All Kaiser's Plot.
Americans did not pay much at
tention 10 the new peace move until
] do
Gil would drive Russia to d separate
peace. We were soon treasured The
council did no. seek a separate peace
All it asked was that the provisional
government should demand that the
other entente governments accept the
councils peace plan. plan 1t has ia
/ ker from the German opposition So
cialists, but a plan that has been for
INFLATED by the pro-kaiser socialists at
the very beginning of the war.
The council has been given to I'M
/ derstand by such socialist leaders as
HiHquit in America; Snowden in Eng
land and LOngueI in F'rance-nOne of
whom can in reality speak for two per
( cent of the people of their respective
/ countries-that the entente masses are
! ready for an immediate peace at al
most any price
The new formula would mean a
/ return to the conditions existing be-
1 fore the war. it is evident, and would
mean that all Europe would be help
/ less when confronted by the new CEN
trail empire Germany has established .