The Socialist paper, the "Clarion," has ceased publiction. This will not surprise those who have observed its declining influence during recent years, The "Clarion" never covered from the effect among Socialists of!Mr. Robert Blachford's pre-war articles. on the German menace.
During the war the "Clavien'' was one of the very few Socialist organs that supported the Allies. Afr, Blatchford's patriotic articles enraged the pro-Germans in the Socialist movement, and the "Clarion" was boycotted and denounced by all Pacifists, pre germans, and International Socialists. -The Socialist paper Forward" published recently an article attacking the editor of the "Clarion" because he had expressed some unpleasant truths about the dictatorship of the proletariat and the follies of our revolutionaries. In the ''Forward" article Mr. Blatchford was described as the "Arch-Traitor of humanity and the Traitor Most Accursed."' In the issue of the "Forward" of the 1th instant, in a_reference to the deimise_of the "Clarion," the writer says:—"The "Clarion," once the leading Socialist propaganda organ in the world, is dead—and there are no mourners. Robert Blatchiord was a great Editor; A. M.
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