The Independent . rong pacifists asGovernor Capper of Kansas have urgedunhesitating support of the Presidentand exprest the opinion that submissionto Germany would be a worse evil thanwar. It is more surprizing, perhaps, toread a manifesto signed by such So-cialist leaders as Charles Edward Rus-sell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, WilliamJ. Ghent, Upton Sinclair, J. G. PhelpsStokes, and William English Walling,not only supporting a war policy butrecommending universal military train-ing as the only safe and democraticbasis for national defense. The loyalistwing of the Socialist party, representedby
The Independent . rong pacifists asGovernor Capper of Kansas have urgedunhesitating support of the Presidentand exprest the opinion that submissionto Germany would be a worse evil thanwar. It is more surprizing, perhaps, toread a manifesto signed by such So-cialist leaders as Charles Edward Rus-sell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, WilliamJ. Ghent, Upton Sinclair, J. G. PhelpsStokes, and William English Walling,not only supporting a war policy butrecommending universal military train-ing as the only safe and democraticbasis for national defense. The loyalistwing of the Socialist party, representedby the signers of this manifesto, ispacifist rather than militarist in tend-ency, but does not believe that non-resistance is the way to establish in-ternationalism. Advocates and opponents of a warpolicy have been holding many massmeetings and public demonstrations, es-pecially in the great cities. At a rallyin Madison Square Garden, New York. City, resolutions were adopted urgingan immediate declaration of war and. © American Press ENLISTING YOUNG AMERICA—Brass buttons play a very small part in modern preparedness; we need soldiers, but we needmachinists, too. Stevens Institute of Technology is drilling this squad in readiness for war the enactment of universal militaryservice. Elihu Root, the principalspeaker of the meeting, declared thatthe United States was protected froma German invasion by the Allied fleet,and Mayor Mitchell urged that anAmerican army be sent to France. German PlotRumors The Federal authoritiesand their agents havebeen busy for the pastmonth in tracing the plots actual orrumored of German sympathizers in theUnited States. The most useful evi-dence in the possession of the Govern-ment is the collection of documentsseized in the raid on Wolf von Igelsoffice a year ago, implicating the two dismissed attaches of the German em-bassy, Boy-Ed and von Papen, theHindu conspirators Chakraberty andSekunna, and many other more serious than the attempts
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