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The instincts of men incline them to unite in war- BOTH upon the side of the opposition and upon our fare, and only a clearly out-standing conception of ‘own side, we are suspected of a certain amount of duty or of interest to the contrary can withhold them. camouflage in what we say editorially in THE The growing menace of a Prussian victory, the in- Lipskator, A humorist in the Evening Post was very creasing power of labor and internationalist elements genially amused at what seemed to him a sudden ap- among the Allies, the President's peace terms, the preciation in ou May number of the strong points of German invasion of Socialist Russia, the refraining President Wilson's character. No doubt he never of the Allies from such invasion, and the Lichnowsky read any of our writings in The Masses but merely revelation of Germany’s original war-purpose, have accepted a newspaper impression of what they were, served to confuse or to remove altogether any such and I was genially amused at him when I reflected outstanding motive among the majority of Socialists. that those’ paragraphs in my article which dealt with And thus by a combination of natural instinct with the the President's character were written in the spring logic of events, a certi in degree of “sacred union” , of 1917. has come into existence in America, as it did in Europe, We do not expect to convince the newspapers or the even though the adminstration upon its side stoutly Post Office of anything, but we do expect our readers declines to accede to it. to understand that we are not saying things in this Even our educational arm is in half suspense. It has magazine that we do not think are true. We have become a high crime to swear at the government, and kept afloat so far in spite of the difficulties that lie in a soap-boxer who can’t swear at the government, is the way of a Socialist press, but when it becomes for all practical purposes paralyzed. There is a lan- necessary to paint pictures on the outside of our guage of crimson belligerence in which the Socialist opinions, we are going to sink. propaganda has always been conducted, and as this ‘opaganda was never before heard of by certain Socialist Leadership members of the President’s cabinet, they naturally ‘LEADERSHIP of the social revolutionary move- assume that it is concocted for the express purpose of ment in this country is in the hands of the Socialist blocking the war program. The only safe place to Party as never before. It is for the time being a pray or make a stump speech is in your own chamber Purely political movement. Socialist. action in after having shut the door. the industrial field has become practically impossible. In these circumstances there is only one thing left The opinion that German victory would be a disaster is to do—elect individuals that are socialists to Congress. (as it always has been) almost universal among Amer- Elect them on a platform of socialism.