Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 9 | Some Socialists will Stand with the President

SOME SOCIALISTS WILL STAND WITH THE PRESIDENT TEW YORK. March 23. Several prominent prom-inent Socialists met here todav and, after protesting against the action of the party's executive committee in issuing a manifesto "purporting to express the party's position about the threatened war between the United States and Germany." passed resolutions indorsing President Wilson's course and pledging their support sup-port to their country. "To refuse to resist international crime is to be unworthy of the name of Socialist," So-cialist," the resolution said. 'It is our present duty to the cause of internationalism internation-alism to support our government in any sacrifice it requires in defense of those principles of international law and order i which are essential alike to Socialism and civilization. j "We want peace, but not at any cost, and believe that the sacrifice of integrity and of general public and private self-respect self-respect is too high a price to pay for it. i We abhor bloodshed, but see clearly that blood bad better be shed than saved by cowardice to dcay in bondage." A mong those who subscribed to the resolutions were Charlotte Perkins Oilman. Oil-man. William English Wallins. William L. Stoddard. Upton Sinclair, Charles Edward Ed-ward Russell, J. G. Phelps Stokes, Ueroy Scott. Robert TV. Bruero, Walter E. and Charlotte Kimball Kruesi and William Ghent.