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

ed race. Germany is defeated but cannot be persudade to acknowledge it.
 A Secret Socialist Conference Towards the end of the third week of my stay at Munchen, through the kind solicitation of fraternal friends, I attended a secret meeting of prom inent Socialists, more. than 40 of whom took part in this special meet ing. They were mostly men of lib eral professions. To be exact, only six of the men who attended this
 meeting were manual wage-earners.
 The Munchen friends who planned
 this meeting had two motives in
 view, one to acquaint me with the
 current Liberal German thought re-
 gardins the war and peace, and the
 other was to inform certain Socialist
 friends of what the world outside
 Germany is thinking and saying re-
 gardinG the German people. From | three o'clock in the afternoon till
 shortly after midnight we talked and
 discussed the war from all, it's angles.
 The friends who made the meeting possible were not Socialists but were
 men and women who were very anXi-
 ous to bring about a correct under standing of what is going on outside of Germany as it was essential that the deliberate transformation, meth odically infused by our rulers, should
 be at once dispelled. Although, being well aware of the present day Ger man temper, I was constantly on my guard to avoid controversial subjects.
 during the course of our conference
 I came to the conclusion that the Socialist mind of Germany had been
 divided into three distinct factions.
 not counting factions within factions.
 Three Socialist Factions
 The first faction is the element that is known as the Majority Party which is the preponderant Socialist party of Germany.
 The second element is known as
 the Minority Socialist Party which still maintains it's principles of in ternationalism.' This faction is in minority, but in spirit and fearless leadership is far ahead of the Ma jority Socialists and is causing the government great worry.
 But both of these parties and theil following are advocates of lawfu procedure in obtaining terms from the rulers. Their position is to snatch . from the hands of the government as much reform as they possibly can Although the Minority Socialist! have a. programme dealing with the . fatherland's foreign policy, I did no
 find evident symptoms of aggressive
 ness in their demands when these de q mands dealt with Germany's inten e tions regarding her neighbors anC e others
 0 The third element in Germany i t made up of those who would like t n bring about changes after the fash :. ion of the Russian Marxians.
 5 The German BoIsheviks r While the two first Socialist Par g ties-the Majority and Minority Par '- ties-are essentially German, tn 1T third element is decidedly and thor " ouhgly men and women of interna e tional mind. They are even anti e German, so far as German national e ism is concerned. I made many seri n ous attempts to find out the numer 70 ical power of this party, but am com > pelled to state that I have not bee o1 able to come to any correct conclu d sion as to their number in the em
 pire. They themselves exaggerat
 their capabilities and power, whil ;h the other two recognized parties un e. justly and untruthfully belittle tn ,n influence of these German Bolshey e. iks.
 le This third German Socialist ele le ment would resort to terrorism coI le jed after all successful revolution le adopting as a textbook the Frenc ve revolution. They are prepared to dt ne clare open warfare against the gov t. ernment and even against the Ger