The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-12
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Chicago News: Norris Hinquit,
the New York Socialist leader, who,
as candidate for mayor last fall,
made opposition to the war and the
policies of the national government
his principal issue, has publicly Of
fered his services to the war depart
ment as a propaganda Of demo-
cratic and American doctrines. He
pledges himself to do all he can to
encourage strikes and unrest among
the working people of Germany and
Austria. 1t is now clearer than
ever" he told a Socialist audience,
that Prussian and Austrian junker-
dom is the foe of liberty and peace"
and that "autOCraCy and milirGc.sm
in Germany and Austria must be
put down" His dramatic offer OF
his services 10 th1 3 government was
applauded by mis- Socialist auditors.
Last fall Hillquit SYSTEMATICALLY
refused to invest a dollar in Liberty
bonds. He demanded Immediate
peace negotiations with autocracy
and militarism. Last summer at
st. Louis Hillquit and other So
cialists framed and signed a plat
form that branded" the declaration
Of war on Germany by the United
States las a crime against the
people and against the nations of
the world" and pledged the Social
list party TO continuous, active end
public opposition TO the war" Tn
til q few weeks ago-until TTotZky,
the inteTnatiOnalist and MARKHAM So
Cialist, faced the kaiser's Diplomatic
struments-Hillquit and his COL
leagues of the majority faction of
the sO-Called American Socialist
party continued to assert that Wall
Street had forced the war on the
American government and people
and that 1t was the most unjusti-
fable war in all modern history"
These antiwaT Socialists apparent
ly have seen at last a new light.
Trotzky's experience may have
opened their eyes. DO they now
realize the injustice and the folly
Of which they have been guilty in
their violent denunciations Of the
government and the supporters of
the war? II so. they should have
the manliness to apologize to the
people, withdraw their false and
absurd charges and admit that the
war was forced on America by the
manifold crimes and wanton viola
tions Of law and right committed by
the German autOcracy. ..
St. Paul Dispatch: The old say
ing that there is no loss without
some gain is being exemplified anew
in Russia. The failure Of BoIshevik-
ism, while it has given Germany a
temporary war advantage, has dem
onstrated to the world the utter
impossibility OF a government not
founded on law and order and a
decent respect for rights of prop
eTty.
Here was a chance for Socialism
to demonstrate what IL could do.
For years it's followers had been
dreaming OF a state run by the pro-
letariat, for the proletariat: a state
In which capitalism, so-called, should
be no more, and wealth should be
redistributed, a state, in short, in
which there should be an entirely
new social order. Finally the OPP
portunity comes in Russia and the
Wanted new order proves to be only
anarchy under another name.
This breakdown Of Socialism IN
der the test Of actual practice must
have a SOLDERING effect wherever
these dangerous doctrines have
gained a foothold. II Is not the
first OF it's kind, but the most con-
spicuous and the most convincing.
As an argument 1t leaves the street
corner orator without a soap box to
stand on. The proof Of the pudding
is In the eating