The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-20
I]EA[|STS' BLIND To TREASON
TRAPSSET BYCERNANACENT s
Albert Thomas, French Socialist Who Favors Stockholm
Conference, Type Of Class Which Puts Its Own
PROPAGANDA Before National Welfare

But l am certain that tho HdVahta6 cS
would have uutwciEhed tho disauFan-
tagcs. All tho French socialists except
4 group on the right. agree with my
point Of view.
After the war the working classes
in all the countries will have 70 stand
together. will have to have common
program. that they may force lht'F
point Of view on the governments. inc
Stockholm conference would have iur-
thrreu that solidarity. l regret mat
the American working class cannot see
that"
l turned the conversation to the Rus
sian collapse.
"Ah, Russia. n great mystery. Is IL
noto When you think she Is about 10
commit treachery ynu see Brousllort
| offensive When you think she Is about
TO be sublime you behold the Bres'-
Litovsk surrender. Anarchy! But
Russia Is too great 10 fall permanently
Why are not France and America
there now. helping poor. wounded RUS
sia" All We do Is 10 send MESSAGE
to the Moscow Soviet: Russia WI
emerge Mon dicu!"
ITO whom would YOU offer your heip'
I.eninr and Trotzky:" asked. 10
you think TINT we can help the RUSSIAN
people through men who are daily oe-
livcrIng them picccmcal TO the Ger
mans"
oh. do not think l.enine and
Trotzky arc exactly German agents. al
though it is evident that they took Ger
man money" was the extraordinary re-
ply They are not traitors. they are
fanatics. They see nothing except their
propaganda. German money-true. but
what Of 1t? They would take any
money"
N. Albert Thomas evidently could not
see that men who would take German
money were incapable Of being honest
leaders. sincere prophets, or anything
In the world hut liars. thieves and trail
tors No man can exist half crook
half honest.
! They see nothing hut their propa-
Ga-lda" That is perfect description
of VI. Alhcr, Thomas and all the other
misguided idcuists who walk with
FLINDERS obscurng their eyes. They
think and talk as though unaware that
the world around them WAS in flames.
-. . . Fanatics Here. Too. E. :. 49,.
On q battlefront Of seventy-fivc miles
our men are enduring such hardships.
nre performing such miracles Of labor.
are suffering such wounds. such horri-
! bic mutilatinn that no imagination can
compass the facts. Every day some OF
these heroic men give their blood. their
beautiful young lives for the freedom
Of the world
They die for our liberty without q
murlnur And while they arc suffering
and dying. n whole section of tho conf
munity in every allied country contIn-
ucs tn ignore them for one or another
fatuous drems.
In France when these drcamcrs beat
Lat the Chamber OF Deputies "a be al
| lowed to 20 to Stockholm Clemcnccau
answered them: II understand your
idralsm. and l share It. But where we
differ is that l am under no illusion
regarding the reality facts
Tho only important fact in the world
is that we are fighting the greatest
war in history. "in order that govern
mcnt Of the people. for the people, and
by the people shall not perish from the
earth" Nothing else matters. Nothing.
| Every othor question is 4 side issue.
something to he considered and acted
| upon after we have won the war.
| In this country We have our Bolshc-
wiki who would take advantage or inc
| fact that our best beloved, our sons,
are fighting. giving their lives in far
| land, 10 seize power for their class "
| We have fanatics whose parania finds
expression in radical magazines.
Theorists Fooled
We have propagandlsts who find SUI
preme satisfaction in going around the
country making defeatist speeches. and
we have a public which cXclaims in hnr-
ror when one Of these takers is arrest
cd and given Il well-mcritcd prison SEN
| tencc
| We have lawmakers. men IN Congress,
whose devotion 10 their propaganda is
| so limitlcss that they arc willing to risk
losing army appropriations. delaying
| the progress Of the war. in order tn
hasten little the prohibition cam
paign. ~
We have theorists who cannot think
very much about tho war because they
are SO occupied with getting on good
terms again with II people who never
were honestly on good terms with any
body except themselves. After all these
years Of slaughter these theorists would
smilingly get together with the men
who wiped the slaughter and talk about
n league Of nations. a society to abolish
! war
~ league nr nations" exclaimed
Clemcnccau To the Unified Socialists Of
France, led by Albert Thomas. What
will a league of nations mean without
| Germany for ono will not let Ger
many. ill., You would do So. and on what
guarantees? Ask Belgium
Severity Necessary.
What are We Americans, those of us
who walk without binders, who see and
know the awful realities Of the hour,
going TO do about the class fanatics, pro-
| pagandists. egotiSt individualists, the
sentimental theorists big and little'
They arc lroitors Ia tho world that is
| struggling 10 be free. Whether they
know j, or not they are troitors. They
| fight side by side with Attila-
| Rather. they are the camp followers
of tn" Hun. for they rarely do any
| sighting. When justice overtakes them