Evening journal., 1918-06-22
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1918.
THE BIG FIGHT.

THE BIG FIGHT.
r UGENE V. DEBS one Of the best known OF new
L world Socialists. stl opposes civilizations great
against Kaiserism and still bases his opposition,
according reports Of his speech to Ohio Socialists
upon the fact that there auocrats and prontees
thiAcounry and because there the hearts of
Americans British and French desire for plunder
Debs and his kind stin it, They are stiI keep
ing their eyes closely upon the profeer the
onary and the captain of privilege at home that they
the horrible re sweeping from the land
Of the worlds most rapacous Of pronteers the most
sandpat OF reactlonares and the most greedy captain
OF privilege Germans auocracy.
When Debs says that the purpose OF the Allies Is
the the purpose Of the Central Powersplunder
Debs liesl Only liar fool could believe that
Serbia resisted Austria for plunder; that Belgium
sisted the Hun invaders for plunder that Britain sacri
feed the flower Of her ctizenry when BELGIUM was
ravaged-for plumber that the United States forced
the by German murder and piracy upon the high
seas, by German crimes and plots our own so..by
IGerman Staying Of American citizens into the war
flor plunder. Debs isn't a fool Therefore he must be
ia liar
Debs right is doing more to aid the Hun Kaiser
than all the pro-German Germans in America Of
greater assistance to the Boches France than are
the Turks. Bulgarlans and the Austrians His Canton
speech. being spread broadcast through all
Germany and all German trenches will kill more Amer-
soldiers than all German submarines that hunt for
American transport ships For Debs words viii be
used in Germany persuade the Germans TO greater
sacrifice greater cruelty because they will believe
that America is not in this war to wn-that Debs
voices the sentiments of large portion of popula-
tion.
He voices the sentiment Of a very few some Of whom
already in prison and all Of whom should be there
and probably will.
Yes there are proateers in this country There are
men who would plumber There who would
rob There men who would steal and murder
There are men who prey upon the weaker. There are
those who fat upon special privilege There are
autocrats among us.
There pronteers autocrats and special privilege
seekers in the ranks Of the Socialist party probably
fewer there than in other political parties because It
is a small minority party.
There pronteers, autocrats and special privilege
seekers in all organizations Of human beings in churches
clubs, in all places where human beings dwell
They should be fought They should be torn up by
the root and cast out All righthinkng persons agree
upon that. Debs and his k are not alone in opposl-
ion to human pirates that prey
But at this particular time the house Of civilization
Is on fire. Flames leaping higher and higher The |
whole fabric Of liberty and democracy is threatened
There is nothing in all the world so important as this
fire raging westward from the Rhine Beside that fire
all petty squabbes reactionary politics petty
prohteerng and Wall street bankers pale into nsignla
cance.
After we have beaten the Hun we easily enough can
take Of the pronteer and the home grown variety
Of autocrat But If the Hun beats us we can do moth
ng-Dut submit to the inordnae greed Of the Berlin
brand Of pronteers and the brutality Of the Pots
lam autocrat.
The big fight we have to tight is the one against
these, not against the puny pronteers and sutocra in
our midst. The nation must direct the whole power
OF Its forces against the bayonets bombs Of the
Any persons who interferes with the deliver
Ing Of that blow aids the enemy by the same token
Is disoyal American and a traitor. There are two
places, in either Of which these war-obstructlonists
rightly belong One is Germany the other IS a peni-
!entiary.
in either place Eugene V. Debs would be Of less as
sstance the Kaiser than while enjoying the rights
and privileges OF American citizenship.