The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22

are crippled on the field through | open attacks behind the front by the | Germans themselves, the German people are doomed to slavery for ever. Palliative Huns | As I have already mentioned in the early part of this chapter, the main purpose of this secret conference was
 to give correct information to the va
 rious Socialist groups in Germany re-
 garding the course of the war outside | of Germany, and also to obtain the
 views of the various German socialist
 groups regarding the progress of
 peace thoughts in the fatherland. | However, soon the conference turned
 into a fiery discussion of war and
 peace, between the three groups rep
 resenting the three factions of Ger
 man socialism.
 I have attended many ether such
 gatherings in other German centres,
 and found the same feeling prevalent
 everywhere. Therefore, the Munchen gathering of which I am writing, is typical of the universal German feeling today.
 As Socialist of twenty years
 standing I am in a position to gauge the feeling of my fellow-socialists
 After endless conferences and inter-
 views with the leading German So- cialists during my journeys in Ger
 many, I am of the firm mind that the real serious danger to the mill
 tarists rule in Germany will come
 from the numerically smallest but
 most courageous and fearless third
 element, which is an element that has
 heen created in the fatherland since
 the war. Although there are many
 men of pure German blood in the ranks of this third party of political
 desperadoes the majority of them are Poles and Polish Jews. Another inn
 portant fact is that nearly half their numbers are women, young women between the ages of 22 and 35. Germany's Hope
 Some two months later, while in terviewing a prominent Conservative
 magnate. I had the pleasureable sat isfaction of learning that the govern ment feared the third element and t their poisonous influences more
 than they feared the first two recog- 5 nized Socialist parties. Although l many adherents of the third party are = nonGermanic men and women, I mo- l ticed that the authorities did not con- S slider ' prudent to make an issue of = the same.
 g '"These people are like invisible dis
 ease microbes complained vehem- r ently my conservative friend, "they I are to be found in dense industrial q centres. They destroy, but yet the h government is not able to discover f them!"
 |. It is very true, the most useful s members of this element are men an6 g women who would be termed out t and out criminal if judged only by l. their immediate acts. But holding ir l. mind the political aspect of their pro. - gram, any critical observer mus d admit that they are 'revolutionaries
 after the type of those of the French is revolution.
 O Fearless Women Marxians I observed that they were fearles.
 of personal danger, and reckles.
 when they were certain that they = could serve a certain cause by daring = found them men and women whC e hade made up their minds to sacrifice = their persons for the realization O. l. their cherished programme, but the, l. put a great value on their lives anC l. in every case they sell their lives a. i- as dearly as possible.
 r. During the height of the discussion l. in our Munchen conference one O n these young women taunted bitterl, l. a comrade of the Majority Party af l. filation, by telling him that even tn te Roman Catholic Party of German, le had shown more courage and anti T. government spirit than the SoclaIis le Party.
 V must be very carefully in refer
 ring to the activities of the third So e. cialist element in Germany. I can re D. late hundreds of instances when thes IS, fearless men and women shown req ,h revolutionary spirit and set an eX e. ample to the 'moderates'-in cour W age if not in policy-who are latel r. thinking more aggressively than the @ did last year.
 Many Political Prisoners
 I learned that the political prison
 CTS in the Empire were beyond mum N Der.
 At the end of our long conference
 utterly depressed I left my Socialis
 lCOHlIdueS. AltnOuSn the FathSrlan a has gone through the greatest deter |, iorating changes, the method an v mode of reasoning of our two prin n ciple Socialist Parties in Germany ha .- remained almost the same. I wa |. there with them to listen to wha "a they know about the present da is German political temper, and I lis 5, tened attentively, without even ono lt interrupting them, but when it be l. came my turn to explain to ther n what the outside world is thinkin IS and expecting of them round i of them a bad audience. a11i aot onl ly referring to my Munchen comrades sf In a majority of instances I found ou ot Socialists an accusing mob. They ac lc l cuse their government, they accus tt each other, and they accuse above a D 1 their foreign comrades. I found D. very difficult to reason with the1 to about the origin of the war The It seem to wish to shut their eyes er the present day realities, and sto 'n contented in dabbling in their ore as war-estimates of other countries. i'll Real Motive Behind Apparent Ger Id man Discontent
 ss In the Berlin district I met man 10 leading Socialists, and interviewe 'e nearly 35 members of the Reichstaj
 kand with the exception of few