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Show OOt DOUBLE DEALING FOR THE WORLD. W. R. Gaylord, vice president of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, De-mocracy, quotes Eduard David, Socialist-Democrat, as saying in the Gorman Gor-man reichstag: "Germany must squeeze her enemies ene-mies with a pair of pincers, namely, tho military pincer and the pacifist Iplncer. The German armies must continue to fight vigorously while the German socialists encourage and stimulate stim-ulate pacifism among Germany's enemies." ene-mies." Looking back, America can discover discov-er two very-important, facts about Socialism So-cialism in this country. Socialism was Introduced by Germans, and it taught class consciousness and opposition to war preparations. In Germany, Socialism was supposed to be the same thing, but hero is a" Socialist-Democrat who openly confesses con-fesses deceit It can be shown that tho . whole Socialistic program, as applied to Germany and other nations, was to buUd up Germany while spreading discord dis-cord and disarmament elsewhere. When the war opened, not one prominent prom-inent German Socialist, with tho "possible "pos-sible exception of-Liobknecht, raised a finger in opposition to war. They all I marched away singing tho songs o war and upholding their imperial mas-. mas-. ter. f Reviewing tho past, there is much , to prove that Socialistic propaganda came out of Germany for no other purpose pur-pose than to spread class hatred in other countries, so that when tho time arrived for German world-conquest, the seeds of Socialistic dissension would burst Into sedition everywhere except in Germany. i , - |