Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 2 | Landsberg Attacks New German Party

LIOSBEBG ATTACKS HGHIP1W Socialist Leader Says Its Promoters Hope for Sup- port From War Profits. AMSTERDAM, Oct. (i The reich-stag, reich-stag, according to Berlin dispatches, today to-day discussed- the socinJist interpellation interpella-tion concerning Admiral yon Tirpitz. and the new German fatherland party. ; The Socialist, Herr Landsbevg, declared that the new party was a pan-German institution, insti-tution, its particular object being to obtain ob-tain support for its leaders by means of war profits and the purchase of newspapers news-papers to influence public opinion and set forth Germany's war aims which would . give them increased dividends. The .Socialists, on the contrary, declared Herr Landsberg, demanded that the freedom of the nation should be promoted pro-moted because democracy was its greatest great-est strength. Referring to the agitation in behalf of the new party's propaganda against the reichstag peace resolution, Herr Landsberg said: "We must get out of the suffocating atmosphere or a state of siege. The war minister must, admit that he protects pro-tects the agitation, as he himself wrote a polemic against tho reichstag resolution." reso-lution." Herr Landsberg told how clergymen and the state authorities agitated among the population in behalf of the fatherland father-land -'arty and how officers, by speeches and the distribution of pamphlets, carrier car-rier on a propaganda among the soldiers sol-diers against the reichstag resolution. Minister of War von Stein, in replying reply-ing to Herr Landsberg, declared that the army command did not permit political po-litical agitation within the army. This caused a stir and cries of "Oh! Oh!" from the left. Thereupon the president presi-dent pointed out the impossibility of further debate under such conditions and begged the deputies to resume their seats. ! Minister von Stein, in continuing, said: "Tho explanations given in the army are of quite different tendencies and purport. In vipw of the enemy's lies, which are circulated all around the world, it is clear that our soldiers must be enlightened concerning the real causes of the war and the enemy's intentions in-tentions and the consequences if we lost. "The army hungers for intellectual nutriment and therefore the armv com- 1 mand lias issued general instructions regarding re-garding lectures, plays, cinemas, pamphlets pam-phlets and armv new&pn pcrR. There is no word of politic in this." The war minister then charged that enemy agents were endeavoring to induce in-duce dissension mid vacillation among the German people, therefore principles had been laid down for the army in tho field and the army at home. Tie declared de-clared that the enemy, too, lias his army rvropnganda to uphold to instill the spirit of victory in their ranks. We aim also at maintaining tho spirit of our army at the level with which it entered on the campaign," he asserted.