e Socialist Party. In this official paper,
issued by the National Office, Socialist Party, we read:

"An Open Letter to 'The Appeal.'

"_March_ 19, 1919.

"Editor Appeal to Reason,

"Girard, Kans.:

"Sir.--In the issue of the 'Appeal to Reason,' March 15, 1919, you
publish an appeal for $30,000 CASH, for an alleged 'Amnesty and
Construction Fight.'

"You give yourself credit for having 'won' the first skirmish in
the amnesty fight and on the basis of this unfounded claim, you
justify your appeal for $30,000 CASH. To make your appeal seem
legitimate, you use such names as Eugene V. Debs, Kate Richards
O'Hare, Rose Pastor Stokes and refer to 'many of our comrades.' I
happen to be one of those who is facing a prison sentence and if
you have included me in 'many of the comrades,' I want you to
strike my name from your list. I loathe to be a 'comrade' of yours.
You and your paper helped to create a hatred against the Socialist
Party and you wilfully and maliciously lied about the National
Executive Committee when it refused to follow a course that would
put more of our members in prison. In other words, you and your
paper must bear a part of the responsibility for the prosecution
and persecution of the Socialists and it is rank hypocrisy for you
to prate about your fight for amnesty.

"Others may speak for themselves, but I scorn any effort that you
make in my behalf. A thousand times would I rather spend the rest
of my life behind prison bars than to have one word from you whom I
hold responsible for the persecutions of which my colleagues and I
are victims.

"I look upon your appeal for $30,000 CASH, in the name of
'Amnesty,' as a sinister method of filling your own coffers.

"You have lied to us and about us and betrayed us in the past and I
resent your hypocritical prattle about amnesty.

"Yours without respect,

"Adolph Germer,

"_National Secretary, Socialist Party_."

Judging from the bitter attacks that Socialists are making upon each
other, it would seem that there might be a little harmony in the party
if their platforms were limited to the principles of Socialism and were
not concerned with "immediate demands" to the almost total exclusion of
Socialism itself.

CHAPTER VII

SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE

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