Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-06


 ally essential in tile conduct of the war. but, SO these infatuated zealots contend, jury should not find them guilty, nor hold them accountable, oe- cause social conditions inspire their acts and are responsible for all their crimes. The I. w. W, thus relieved of the responsibility of q free exercise of will, IS eXonerated from every offellse against society.
 "The I. W. W. dostrine of vicario,ls responsibility is expressed with dlst1n- guisfled felicity, with characteristic literary green tradition of doing the thinking of the nation, The New Republic.
 "The rebellious propaganda of the 1. W. w., we have suggested. de- clares this organ. is born not of the perversity of malicious individuals, but of unhealthy social conditions for which we, as a democratic people, are responsible.'
 This doctrine, relieving the iTldlv fdual of all responsibility by placing the blame for his acts upon society, had it's it's inception in the German Marxian Socialist philosophy. To the ignorant, the weak, the unfit, 10 soft sentimentalists and to the intellect -ually loose and vicious, it has had 3 powerful appeal, and that appeal is to the lowest of all human qualities, moral cowardice The I. w w., by the law of natural selection, took over this doctrine, elaborated it. and car ried it to the extreme not only ln theory but in practice.
 It was sintellectuaIs' of the same kidney as those now engaged in de- lending the I. w. W. who prepared the Russian people for the advent of Lenine and TrotzkY and brought Rus. sia to her undoing. And the same species have gone far toward under mining Italy and France and in mak- ing menacing inroads in England. One is inclined tc ask to what limits they will go in the United States before the indignation of an aroused citizen ship, comprehending what Ame4ican B0lshevlsm means, calls a halt
 'Even before the European war broke out, according to German of ficial communication quoted in MT. Harre's report, the Imperial Govern ment sought to learn the methods of sabotage employed by anarchistic la hor in this country, and after the out break of the war in Europe 1t in- srructed Capt. von Papen to enlist the raid of these same destructive forces { to destroy munition plants and pre- vent the sailing of ships. Since the United States entered the war both the I. W. W. and German agents have worked along the same lines, us- ing the same methods to the end of crippling of AmeNca in the war to the advantage of Germany
 A digest of MT. Harre's arrange ment of the I. W. W. follows:
 ''In the wholesale murder of inno- cents, in the burning of fair cities and despoilation of fertile lands, in the breaking of solemn covenants and the abrogation of human rights and jus tice, and in the invention of scientific devices for slaughter and human suf- fering. The Imperial German Govern ment in it's military campaigns has accomplished what is unparalleled in the annals of mankind Yet in it's warfare against the United States within the confines of our own shoes it's agents, in efforts to obstruct our conduct of the war have had only to adopt the essentials of program al ready prepared Seeking to do their utmost to negative the Government s prosecution of the war and to render fruitless the bravery and safrifice of cur boys in the trenches the agents of the Kaiser simply adopted the methods of the W. w In the man. uals of the L. W. W. Germany's agents found comprehensive catechism for sabotage, crime destruction and vio- i lence. A comparison of the activities of German spies and those of the l. W. W. reveals start1ingly identical methods and acts.
 'It was i'll line with instructions from Berlin, that von Papen and Boy Ed from the very beginning establish 1 ed connections with anarchists and the revolutionary clements Of labor 1 While the publicity branch of the 1 German paganda-instituted by Dr. Bernhard Bernburg and directed se- cretly by Dr. William Bayard Hale 1 endeavored and by covert and cun- . ming methods, and through subsidized but apparently American organiZa- tions, to delude American sentiment 1 into demanding an embargo on the 1 shipment of arms and war supplies to the a1IeS,. the secret service Drancl of German activity under von Papen, at the same time undertook to achieve the same result by the methods of the I. w w. Munitions plants were de-
 stroyed. ships blown up and nlImher-
 less lives lost. Germany, employ ing anarehistic n1alcontents, waged
 war against us within the confines of our own shores
 And that continues to this day Simultaneously with furthering paci- fist propaganda thru mouthing radi-
 calls. academic pacifists and the So-
 cialist party. German agents, accord
 ing to federal authorities. since the
 United States entered the war. have
 carried on systematic campaign of
 sabotage for the destruction af war
 supplies and the hampering of the
 war work of the nation. Among the l. W. w., whose ultimate objects are } the same as those of the BoIshevik, and and among other anarchistic , clements. German agents, govern ment officials declare, have found convenient instruments for the coutiy,-