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Show RADICALS LOSING IP ran? Spartacus Group Feels Ground Slipping From Beneath Its Feet. I (Xew York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable. I Copyright.) REltLIN. Nov. 6, via The Hague, Nov. 2S. (Delayed.) The Socialists of the Hpartacus group, such as' lVa-bkneeht and Itosa Luxemburg, are evidently feeling that what little hold they have on certain clauses is rapidly slipping away from i them. They realize that unless they j receive vigorous aid from without they will lose all ground In Germany. For this reason they hasten to address i a pronunelamento "to the proletariat of all nations," winch covers the whole j first page In their organ, the "Red Khig." ! and is signed "Kpariaeus League," "Lie.b- Itnecht," "Luxemburg," "iMahrlnge," j "Aetkin.' i "In Kurope," says the pronunelamento, ! "twelve million bodies cover the scene of i the imperialists crimes. The flower of ; youth and vigorous manhood has been i mowed down. Innumerable productive farms being destroyed. Humanity is in ; despair. Victors and vanquished alike I stand trembling at the brink of chaos, threatened by the most awful famine, pes-I pes-I ttlence and degeneration, j "The capitalists are the criminals responsible re-sponsible for this chaos. They are unable i to mask the devils of their own crea-1 crea-1 tion." The pronunelamento proceeds to assert j that the d'niy salvation is Socialism as ' understood by the "Hpartaeides." If the proletarians of all nations would unite, It ; Is set forth, they would make peace within i a few hours. There would not be such questions as the left bank of the Rhine, Mesopotamia, Hgypt, or the colonies, then; there would be only one law, namely, the equality of all mankind; only one purpose, the welfare and progress for all. The signers of the pronunelamento do not want Lloyd George, I'oirieare, Wilson, Sonnino, Krzberger or Scheldemann to conclude this peace, but insist that it bo "concluded tinder the banner of Die world's revolution." These blood -curdling Incantations will only cause a smile in America, but they are characteristic of the state of mind of the Spartacides, who are feeling tho ground slipping from under their feet in Germany. Tiiey hope to revolutionize France and England and speak even of certain classes in America as their sympathizers. sym-pathizers. Despite the rapidly decreasing number of their followers, the Spartacldcs, are etill the most dangerous enemies of peaceful peace-ful political development. Somehow they Beem to be possessed of enormous funds, with which they are baiting certain lawless law-less elements. When they found the government determined de-termined not to permit the appropriation appropria-tion of the Txkal Anzeiger, Liebkneeht went to Rudolf Mosse and offered him 10.0ii0.00n marks for one of his publications. publica-tions. Die Volks Zeitung, which they intended in-tended to make their own organ. Not until Mosse definitely refused did they find another printing establishment for their organ, the "Red Flag." |