rty of Eugene V. Debs has no use whatever for the
Ebert-Scheidemann group, who are looked upon as reactionaries,
hypocrites, murderers and traitors to Socialism.

In the latter part of 1918, the Berlin correspondent of the "Koelnische
Zeitung" drew a graphic picture of the terrorism exercised in Berlin by
the Spartacan gangs:

"Dr. Liebknecht himself, whose imprisonment has obviously clouded
his formerly keen intelligence and probably turned his brain,
spends his time in visiting barracks in Berlin, Spandau and
elsewhere, and inciting the men to refuse to allow any distinctions
even of non-commissioned rank or to accept anything resembling
orders from officers or to admit them to the local councils. His
chief of staff, Dr. Levy, who before the war was his business
partner in his law office, is preaching fanaticism in Berlin to all
and sundry.

"The word Spartacus goes through the city like a bogy. Civilians,
soldiers, employees, capitalists, all feel themselves equally
threatened. A sitting of the Prussian Lower House had to be
adjourned because it was feared that the Spartacus gang was going
to seize the building.

"'The Lokal Anzeiger' has several times failed to appear, as the
result of repeated efforts of the Spartacus gang to seize it.
Careful burghers chain up the house doors, and it would be well if
the steadier elements of our workmen and soldiers would chain up
the door of their hearts against the murderous and suicidal ideas
of the Spartacus gang."

The Spartacides made a practice of terrorizing German newspapers into
supporting them. In the early part of 1919, they tried to prevent the
Constituent Assembly from coming together, and later on engineered many
a revolt in the various cities of Germany. Since their leaders, the
fiery Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, were assassinated, the orderly
elements of the German people have succeeded more and more in weakening
the power and influence of the Spartacans.

Kurt Eisner, of Bavaria, after the overthrow of the German Imperial
Government, sought to establish a federation of German republics under
the head of Bavaria. It was not very long before the first step was
taken, Bavaria declaring itself a republic independent of the Berlin
Government. After the assassination of Eisner, Bavaria, and especially
its capital, Munich, came more and more under the contro