New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-31
Kamerads and Comrades
The Socialist Movement Movement Threatening 0y an alliance
80 ~ Germans in The West With Russian jew Here

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Do the people of New York even
family realize what the election Of Morris
Uillouit and the capture by him and ms
fanatca. followers of the government OF TINS
city would mean, and the effect 1t would have
on the nation, our allies and the conduct OF
the war generally?
That this disloyal, alien element may be
swept VIGOROUSLY into our City Hall on
wave of ant-war and pro-German sentiment
is not the dubious possibility so many people
imagine.
would not trespass On your valuable
space aid | not know something of the men
ace OF this so-called socialist" movement,
and OF those connected with it, and the
blighting effect it has had OH the masses the
country Ger.
Within the range of my vision are three
red cards, which once represented the right
of myself and family to be called members
of the Socialist party. Though | have been
n Socialist for more than n quarter OF
century, ! no longer belong TO that organi-
zation. having left it for reasons identical
with those which caused the resignation of
Spargo, Sinclair, Phelps Stokes, Russell and
others. | made my exit earlier than tney
owing to the fact that had better oppor-
tunties of judging OF the dangerous and
seditiou, nature OF this once harmless but
now malevolent, treacherous and reasonable
organization.
A Sacrilege
To connect the word socialism (Which has
been a word of inspiration, word that SYM
bolized to many Of US all the higher hopes OF
humanity. and which thrilled US with all the
sacrifcial fire and devotion of the crusader
of old with the present seditious, pestlfer-
Gus combination of alien malcontents and
chronological hybrids, who are now using that
word to hide their cowardice and treason,
seems almost sacrilegious, for to many OF us
socialism is religion which rounds out and
makes practical and complete the mountain
height idealism OF Christianity
Most people arc under the impression that
the present Socialist organization is largely
in the hands Of the Germans. This is true
only so far as it concerns Milwaukee and
other Western cities, where patriotism Is
rare and beer abundant.
The so-called Socialist movement is to-day,
under the stress OF war, largely racial
movement, the German controlling in the
West and the Russian Jew dominating IN
New York When the public grasps the sig
nificance Of this fact, a fact Of which it is
astonishingly ignorant. it will be easy for it
to comprehend why this organization is so
bitterly opposed to any participation on our
part in the present conflict.
Through the nstrumentality of such wide
~ circulated organs as "The Appeal to Rea-
son." "The Milwaukee Leader" directed by
the militant Austrian nationalist, Berger, and
"The New York Call" THE Forward" etc,
vast number OF badly balanced but other
wise harmless individuals in all sections Of
the country have, under the influence Of an
insidous propaganda labelled socialism, been
robbed Of their nationalism, their patriotism,
their love of country, and been inoculated
with the deadly virus OF a fanatical class
hatred and detestaton OF all things Ameri-
can, the bitterness and intensity of which are
almost inconceivable. IL was the easiest
thing in all the world to infame the passions
of these class conscious Comrades and fan
the fury Of their resentment into a fame of
white heat against their native land, against
America and al its institutions and every
thing connected with it, and b. a Machavel-
Ian form of economic camoufage our social
and economic system was made TO appear
brutally crude and crudely brutal, in con-
trast with the wondrous efficiency and benev-
client, psternaistic methods of lamblike,
beautiful, idealistic Prussia.
Every effort has been made to deprive this
land of its unity and strength in order that
il might be made not only incapable of re-
sisting, but actually DESTROYS of welcoming
German aggression. BY preaching a gospel
Of brute discomfort, by discrediting every
action Of our government, no matter how
beneficial, by blaming every crime in the
universe from spinal meningitis to the boil
weevil to Morgan and Wall Street. by making
every man feel he was the victim OF diaboli-
cal oppression and fendsh exploitation. the
insidious game OF peaceful" Prussian pene-