Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-04
Sir Months in
Hell and Back"
German Socialists Vicps after
SIX Months Trapci Through
out the Empire.
HY IGNhTIUS NINAST.
Copyright. International News bureau.

The Socialist masses Of North Ger
many are not for 4 revolution and
+. their political ana trade union leaders
are too conservative to count as :,
menace against the government. Their
/ political and parliamentary leaders arc
. mostly men who have never been
4 manual workers. They are lawyers,
shcpk eepers. journalists, educators and
1 professional politicians. These classes
/ OF men VIII never advocate violent up
! hcaNais. They are still rrcachinl;
/ evolutionary revolution" Even the
minority Socialists their leaders in the
/ Kcichstag. are not yet unit for Il
/ iorcibie revolution.
4 Sad Confession.
Z must confess very sadly that the
Socialist masses have not even pro-
creased as much rs ihc Socialist masses
IN neutral countries. had been made
. 10 believe while still in Zurich that
/ there were from nineteen TO, twenty
: TWO kcighstaE mombrrs in the ranks
uf the minority Socialist party. in
. icrNicwcd many socialists in North
Germany, and became Convinced that
ths was not the whole truth. The
tricky German government policy had
seen advantage in giving out the false
. ncws - tic world that at present there
was au :tppIrui.bIc MUM Der OF real
rcNolUtiouary socialists in Germany.
il Is true that there arc thousands OF
+ trul" revolutionary Socialists. bat
there are very few heroic leaders TO
/ leai them. Measured by Russian.
scandinavian. French, italian or even
10y I.":!sh Socialists of the present
+ cato. tho real revolutionary Socialists
I IN Germany have not more than five
scout leaders in the Rcichstag The
I rest are opportunists, and are too
/ learned ana cautious to make material
Ter truly democratic revolution. The
feeling OF the minority Socialists OF
Germany AGAINST the majority Social
/ lists ma! bc tApiii"d in the following
interview had with a heroic leader
OF the minority. 4 woman:
Ilari Marx: Was lie y Hun Agent.
Kari Marx, | sometimes think, like
our poison gases. was made for our
Z enemies. she explained fccliugly
Like Christ, the East produced him
. Tor the West. and The West was obliged
TO return TO the East and tell them
about his teachings"
another woman Socialist, who has al
I ready served several prison sentences
Tor her antimilitaristic declarations.
was stan more violent, aud would re-
;uSe TO admit that there was the
/ slightest difference between the ma
Joriiy or the minority Socialists OF Ger
many.
edwards and traitors to the Interna-
ionailc. she termed them all
must make ii plain that these words
are not tile hyStrcicnl screams of a
woman She is admired by more rcal
Socialists and trade umicrriats. aud has
greater number OF Individual follow
1 ing than tho most popular influential
Socialist member of tho Rcichsta.y in
Germany. lut most OF her following
are Jews. Poles and women.
rs have already discussed in one
ItHr 4fFH,t F.,.L
/ German Socialist masses revolutionary
program is in the Talking stage" OF
inc movement
WIZ the German Socialist masses
pFoETe$s beyond the talking stage and
become q serious menace TO the reign
must hc truthful and tell what
they ali told me
Every German &ocill!s; whom have
!h''fN!eWci assured me that they had
t','E Eon" considerably beyond tic
'@lhthE stage ana thnt the next few
months WoIld h!nE about woudcri al
."hi!"na in the Gc-lnau charn,ter
For myself. / left German, l,uruiI-
N!"ccd that The German Socialist &.
""u!d become serious menace TO Ge.-
man m!H"riSm &uI1uS the war. pray.
however, that my cOuc;usions arc lns,.i
on wrong pr' misses. | VIII admit this
much: the German Sociulis; is MOI yrt
revolutionary, hut is becoming ,nr.a- T..
ching. Hut make this admission ycrl.
UnWillingly.
ny 90 YOU insist that the German
people would suffer sti!l more without
(" telling protest than any other ncoI
"!G:
.'Are tho German people made OF
cattle
- Sc are the par-!s:c,.. inquiries do
in""GeG Of mo by my .cialigt friends
since returning from GERMANY. he.
tween The time / dictate these cbnr,rrs
"'n constantly Being iuierrt,ni..d =,
factory r"ply
say 20 them, NO. the German peo-
PIE are not much different from NIX,
other people. Ana for mat rcason INK,
VIII bear the privatious OF the war
sim longer without seriously mrnorirl,