South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 292, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 19 October 1919 — Page 32

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The French And Russian Revolutions And The Spread of Napoleonic Poisoned Gas

I ENI NE anrl Trot7ky have quarreled. Trie i twin-devils of Moscow are on the outs. Lcnine has ordered the arrest of Trotzky, and was arrested himself instead. This all runs true to revolutionary form. There has been considerable analogy between the French and Russian resolutions from ihe start. Revolutionists bursting from bondage are the hardest people in the world to hold in check. In their quest of their own freedom they brook no interference from the freedom of others; countenance nothing that runs counter to their own plans. Shakespeare thus understood human nature when he made Brutus to say of Caesar, that "Tis a common proof th;tt lovtliruss is young Ambition's ladder, "Where an to the climber upward turns Iiis face, OAorndfl to the top. And when lie owe attains tin utmost round II then unto the ladder turns hU hack And worns the Lax degrees by which he did aeend, or words to that efTect (someone has borrowed our Shakespeare on Caesar). After which he added something about regarding him as a serpent's egg. which being hatched might grow mfctcrious, and killing "him in the shell." II BOTH the French and Russian revolutions began with the intellectuals taking possession of the governments and planning a republic of law and order. In both cases, too, mobs have overthrown the republics of law and order and demagogues assuming the reins of power, have, to curry favor with the mobs, and retain their hold, instituted reigns of terror in which all the decent men and women possible have been murdered. Both revolutions have witnessed the execution of the royal family; both have temporarily, at least, nationalized womanhood a th ing that clings to Russian women still. Russia has been the more brutal about these things. The executions of Petrograd and Moscow have far exceeded those of Paris both in numbers and for their inhumanity. Russian royalty was not accorded even the semblance of a trial. The French revolutionists still clung to that form even though but slight reverence remained as to the spirit. Some writers have claimed that the immorality of French womanhood is but a remnant of the old nationalization of the sex and that Russian womanhood will as a like consequence fall to similar depths to be finally worn out only through a succession of generations. Ill RUSSIA now appears to be entering upon the last phase; that of the self-extermination of the demagogues, unable longer to agree upon a common coutsc. What Lenine and Trotzky have quarreled about scarcely matters. Neither would consent to give way to the other when it came to a showdown and the evident design was to be another execution. Revolutionary tyrants are invariably the worst in the world. In the name of democracy, and the rights of the people, they insist upon everything else, and grant none of that for which they plead. The story of the personal firjhts for power in Paris is known to all. Just as Kerensky would have paid the penalty for his ascendency, had he not made good his escape, so Vergniaud and those associated with him paid theirs and then came Danton and Robespierre. Vergniaud was the Kerensky of the French revolution, and Lenine and Trotzky the Danton and Robespierre of the Russian revolution. Kerensky and Vergniaud failed because they were too sane and humane to satisfy the bloody thirst of the unloosed rabble, and their successors; well, in both instances they have quarreled, and in Russia, as in Prance, if reports be true, maybe more than quarreled. Danton and Robespierre quarreled. Danton out of love for his new wife sickened at the slaughter he had encouraged, then countenanced, and Robespierre, ambitious for supreme power, saw his opportunity in Danton's repentance. Danton and Murat were thrown to the dogs, and Desmouline sent to the scaffold followed later by Robespierre himself; only Robespierre went to the guillotine. IV ENTER now Napoleon. If the story of the quarrel in Moscow be true the execution of Lenine and Trotky and the arrival of a Russian Bonaparte is all that remains to complete the similarity in this last phase of the two resolutions. There will be no international protest should it come to pas; that i. unless from the majority side of the United .States senate foreign relations committee. Napoleon was the only man in h ranee who knew how to handle a mob by turning his guns on the mob. and then he gave it something else to think about, in the way of foreign invasions. From Robfspierre to t. Helena Napoleon managed to keep Prance fairly peaceable internally by keeping enough trouble on hand from the outside to occupy the major portion of all Frenchmen's time. If he couldn't pick a quarrel with one country he would with another inaugurated a policy of colonial expansion, even lor a moment being attracted by the New V or Id. France just sort of rmered from lis revolution.

at times in self-defense to resist invasions, and at others to satisfy French greed and ambition looking to the return of lost provinces and the quest of new ones. The little Corsican. the corporal of the Tuileries, the Great Napoleon, was the most expert of all the Moseses in history, when it came to leading his people out of revolutions, and by setting up a different mark for them to shoot at, reuniting them in a common cause. WHILE all Christendom might rejoice to see Lenine and Trotzky go, anyway to suit their choice, it might still be that a Russian Bonaparte, taking their place, and particularly if pursuing the other Napoleon. methods, would not be especially gratifying to trie world of today. Bolsh eviki expansion is among the things that is worrying mankind everywhere, and as Napoleon never exactly junked the ideals and purposes of Danton and Robespierre except as to their methods, so the Russian Bonaparte might cling to the bolsheviki idea and to soviet. In fact, France never did get settled down to a semblance of republican sanity until the third republic, after the overthrow of Napoleon III, and the Franco-Prussian war, a little sideshow back in the seventies in which French intrigue played pretty near as contemptible a part as did Bismarckian force and astuteness. Indeed, may it not be that the Russo-Napol-eonic invasions are already a vogue? We read of the bolsheviki knocking at the doors of newly formed republics of the Balkans Jugo-Slavia, Czecho-Slovakia, the new Rumania, new Hungary, new Bulgaria, Greece; even tendering his assistance to d'Annunzio at Fiume. Poland has it to deal with as the most perplexing of its problems. Threats trinkle across the brine, every now and then, even from Paris treaty and League of Nations opponents there, that the danger of the bolsheviki is becoming ominous; that there again appears to be a connecting link somewhere between it and Germany, and that unless the allies get their peace enforcing machinery in operation pretty goon; well, we may have to fight another world war, maybe with nev: alignments more embarrassing than were the recent ones. Further than that, we hear of discouraging rumblings that have followed the cables over from England, and we know a little something of the I. V. V., the American for bolsheviki, uprisings in Winnipeg, Seattle, and now we may add from very close range, that of Gary. Perhaps this new Russo-Napoleonic method of warfare is just that much of an improvement over the old Franco-Napoleonic methods; even as the implements of the late war seemed quite an improvement over those of previous wars. Germany began early her use of "poisoned gas;" and, that is quite what the bolshevik propaganda and intrigue, overspreading the world and America in particular, -just now amounts to; "poisoned gas" of the most poisonous sortundermining, insidious, deadly. VI ARE you aware of the fact that of sixty-two important strikes now on in the United States, only eight are sanctioned by the official organizations of unionism in America? They are as much "outlaw strikes" as a revolt against authority aboard a warship is mutiny. And you need to get the significance of it. It takes us back to the outbreak of the revolution in Russia, then as it was conducted under Kerensky, while the bolsheviki, by these same sinister methods, wert worm-eating their way and undermining the first efforts. The soviets in Russia are a misappropriation; not even an evolution. Whsn the Czar was cast out and Kerensky came to the fore, the Russian parliament consisted of the duma and the council, the latter by appointment from the monarch. The duma was elective but by votes so limited and circumscribed as to give the masses of the people but slight representation. Similarly back in the provinces, and in the cities, for purposes of local government, there were the municipal councils and the zemstvos, and the first move of Kerensky, practically, was to plan a larger representation in what he was wont to term a forthcoming constituent assembly and the local Soviets. It was thus that the councils of workmen, the councils of soldiers, and councils of peasants were organized, seeking to take in everybody calculating to make the new government democratic as possible, even at the tims of the formation of what the young premier chose to call, "the rejuvenation." The bourgesies also had their councils but no more. These councils were to handle local affairs cooperatively and send delegates to the constituent assembly which was to make laws for All-Russia, including the framing of a constitution. How like Vergniaud and the Girondes in France were this man Kerensky and his socialist group; yes. his socialist group not bolsheviki, but socialist? And how like Danton and Robespierre are Lenine and Trotzky? Kerensky had talked patience to Russia; assurance that the constituent assembly would do all things right. Lenine and Trotzky the councils of workmen, soldiers and peasants once organized, these new leaders sent up the cry: "Why wait I Down with the bourgesies I Death to the royalty I Down with the constituent assembly I We want all I Long live the sovietsl" It was "poisoned gas," and it worked. The rnob succumbed to it and the "reign of terror" was on; the same brand of "poiioned ga" a ha

been employed at Seattle, Winnipeg and Gary, but used in the main, on a different people, VII RUSSIAN "reds;" that is the name for them, and the only name and their efforts to misappropriate the labor unions in America, apropos the outlawed strikes, the sabotage, and political, industrial and social discontent, are merely birthsigns of their hope to gain control through them, here in America, quite as they did in Petrograd, Moscow and other Russian towns. As they transformed the workmen's, soldiers' and peasants' councils into supreme Soviets, so they would do to the American labor unions and will, if the loyal Americanism in them isn't in some manner kept predominant; possible only by dealing out to them such a measure of recognition and industrial justice, as will make them a truly competitive force, capable of delivering. When Gompers, Morrison and Sec'y Wilson have said to would-be strikers in 54 of the 62 strikes now on: "Be patient; wait until after the industrial conference; things will come out all right," the "reds" have talked back, "nothing doing; we have heard that before; strike now," and they struck. In eight cases the true labor leaders were heard and heeded. And there are evidences at the industrial conference, of capitalism cooperating unconsciously, of course, but cooperating with the "reds" by confirming their doubts, and in the minds of many workingmen, justifying them in their course; insisting qui'e as the bolsheviks do, that "we want all." Get this from "I. W. W." Foster, syndicatalist, communist, anarchist, or call him what you will: 'The tactics that hae been followed by the I. W. Y. are had. Our endeaxors should Ik made inside the A. 1. of I It is within the existing

anions that the- syndicatalist mnst trncle without creastn. As they fall then in their easy conflict with capitalism e will be there to encourage them to direct actionem and they will see the futility of not embracing it." The syndicatalist is the I. W. W., the bolshevist, and that whole range of "red" activity, while American organized labor, which they are seeking to control, is conservative and American; regarded by the "reds" as "easy." VIII AND finally take this from the internationalistbolshevist angle; Alexander Berkman, spokesman Berkman, common law husband of Emma Goldman, just released from the federal prison at Atlanta, uttered while awaiting deportation from New York: "The Leajrue of Nations is merely a bold attempt to apply the capitalist system of control, and suppression of the rights of the workers, to the whole world. Ijibor mint everywhere oppose this movement; precipitate strikes, encourajre revolt, bring the force of unionism and cverj thing to bear, that will keep the attention of the different nations at home, taking care of their own troubles. Instead of coopo ratine intcrnationnHj to extend their power. There will be great rejoicing in Ilusnia a well as Germany, and amorur workers throughout the world, when the United States refuvs to Join the- Icague of Nation." No wonder the "reds" packed the halls of Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Seattle, and other western points, and cheered to the echo, every word that Hi Johnson and Bill Borah could muster, in opposition to the league covenant! No wonder Sen. Johnson called out about that time that there was "no such thing as bolshevist in America;" that is, none, unless as James Putnam Goodrich and James Eli Watson have discovered Woodrow Wilson is one; Wilson, if

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"bold attempt" to enslave the workers of tl.r world which the Russo-NapoIeon;c Alex u-.d

Berkman. on his return from Elba, please "Russia as well as Germany '

the United States refuses to join!" To "Corporal" Berkman. permit us to introduce as his senatorial lieutenants, such honor. th1 members of our league ratifying body as B.:.'. Borah, Brandegee. Calder (who with Sen. Freu!inghuysen has been "ably representing Germany" in attacks on the alien property custodian). Capper, Curtis, Dillingham. Fall (the four-flusher ) . France, Fruelinghuysen (see Calder). Gronr.a (anti-war as to Germany), Johnson (Calif.. antiBritish, anti-Jap, and denier of a boKhevik existence), Jones (Wash.. not Hansen b;:L Jones), KCnox ("hard and cruel"). Lafollrtt (his pro-German utterances still in committee). Lodge (whom Roosevelt called a "malicious and unmitigated liar"), McCormick (close friend of von Bernstorff), McLean. Mose3 (who tried recently to "bughouse" the president s illness). New (swollen up like a poisoned pup over an assumed discovery of the "weakness and incapacity" of our peace delegates), Newberry (who bought his election in Michigan with money madefrom profiteering on arms and ammunition). Norris (who always voted for Germany ar ! against the United States before the declarator t of war, at it, and since), Page, Penrose (by th way, who is Penrose?), Phipps, Poindexter (an

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(Illinois' linguistic glutton), Sutherland. arr. Watson (who told German-Americans in srct conference at Ft. Wayne that France couldn't have Alsace-Lorraine back) and finally. Gore. Reed and Walsh (Walsh of Massachusetts, not Montana. ) "Birds of a feather."

From Him That Hath Much Is Expected, Etc.

Sm-TH BK.NT) must not fall. The people might as well settle down to it. The $300. COO "welfare chest" must be filled. It Is a considerable "chest" for peace times In comparison with prewar soci.il service "chests" but the city Is considerably blfrser too; everybody is more prosperous, and we are building somewhat for yeara to come. Take the hospitals. They are to have $100, COO 550,000, each for needed extensions. They must have them. We need the facilities; will need them, p.nd mor if ivuth Bend grows as we all expect It to prow. The $6,000 each that is nsked is needed to cover exactly the thing that so many people think they have reason to complain about. Every man with the sense of a louse must realize from his experience in the management of hl9 oven home, particularly if he has ever had sickness there, that a hospital cannot proceed without money, an3 despite the fact that they do charge wherever they can. where they can't charge the expense must be born'1 Just the same. Hosp itals are no more run on

the "manna that falls" than Is the American home. We mention the hospitals in particular, but as to the ether larger items; the Jewish, the Polish and Armenian relief funds. Because those people are not starving here under our noses does not relieve our responsibility for them. This whole big world is the Lord's and giving to the "Welfare fund" is giving to the Lord; snicker about it as you like. The purely local institutions; the Associated Charities, the AnM-Tuberculosis loa sue, the Children's dispensary. Day nursery. Florence Crittenton circle, Humane society. Orphans' home. Salvation Army, Visiting Nurses, Y. W. C. A. (not Y. M. C. A.) and Red Cross; none of them arm unreasonable in their budgets, and everyone of them are doing a good work which the people cannot afford to let die down. That I all there la to It. The antithrFts, and tho only existing hlnderance to their proper financing, is the pure human selfishness. Too many of us cannot see that It pays to be decent to the man who is down today. II may be up tomorrow and we may

he down in his stead. The old world is pretty much of a ffa-Mw, and if w. must 1" s lf!h we o icl.t to bp sel:Lsh cnoiiRh to b lf-cor,j-ideratf . It is not for us, and it is not for th Wo'far .üc;!ms to trll anyone how ra'.ich they should piv. Much individual knows for himself, and ho kr.nws that in his selfishness, no d!lf"ronre now muen v decides upon the first time, ovgt;t fo rlvr k a little bit more. It is a tdinme tht we havm ti vi this, and that thf-rp is a necessity of th dtiv 'rttinuing for another w--ek. We have ffot to do it folk.-. W'o mip-ht a fü trawl out of our shells and dip in. It f ir ;.!! us quite alike. It is a two-edj?ed pword. As :he (' Hook puts it: "Of him that hath abundan-, th more will be expected; fr e'y ye no ceived, freely give," nri- frnni him ünt bath not shall be taken away even that that he hath" if he be slothful an 1 makes a t(. r-'!;:h use of itAnd it was after this manner that the Master of the parible separated the sheep from the .''s.

The Anarchy That Is Ours To Circumvent

LITERATURE signed by the "American Anarchistic Federated Commune Soviet, has been seized by the New York police; literature entirely consistent with the anarchistic principle of "no laws of God or man " s It denounces the action of the police in dispersing a mob that attempted to march up Fifth av. without an official permit. In the opinion of Its authors, all persons should be privileged to get up demonstrations, evon demonstrations against the government of the United States, and parade through the streets at any time regardless of the comfort and convenience of their fellow-citizens. The circulars al?o contain an attack on Judicial officers who are conducting the trial of some persons charged with "criminal anarchy" under a law recently passed by tho New York legislature. These

officers are specif rally mentioned by name and violence against them is urged. Coincidentally comes word from Gary, Ind., of the distribution of a proclamation by the "Communist Party of America" advocating the overthrow of the military forces now in control of that city. No one with normal nerves is going to lie awake nights worrying fcr fear the anarchists will seiz the government of the United States, make Debs or Berkman president, and Emma Goldman, secretary of war. Th anarchists are creating a sensation entirely out of proportion to their numbers and Influence. But the serious mischief foreshadowed by the circulation of such printed threats and warnings must not be minimlzvl. In New York the Judiciary, in Gary the military

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The authorities are on jruard and se. kir.-r .Iscover the perpetrators. of these outrages. Hut this is not enough. All good citizens have a ib:ty t. j. i ' i m . T-i denounce manifestations of anarchy and wh're necr-ssary to organize against the en- mie w ithin the gates. The other diy in New Yrk v. h n :h- n.". ;:'. I the polite lo a I ci'Jz-ns join' d ar-tivdy in i:ph.;dn. the law. We may not ail l.e required ? r, !r this physical service, Imt without rxr. ;.!; n v who believe in our country nnd it i!.-'' shou'.l be prepared to r n lei wh-e--r a - - . v may b needed to epri this suly s.-rp. r . f :; .rby from free Am"rici.

Another Of Our Civilizations Gone Before

SCIENTISTS have had added to their collection of proofs as a result of the war, still additional evidence of civilizations that have tried living upon this world and failed sefven of them, -suggesting that perhaps there may be still other3 to follow. One usually thinks of the soldier as a rollicking realist, thinking no farther, either forward or backward, than today, and one's Idea of an archaeologist Is that of a spectacled high-brow who never knows what day In the week it is or whether he had luncheon or breakfast last, but in Macedonia, recently, soldiers digging trenches and making other military excavations came upon trensure trove of ancient times, and the archaeologists became alert. Vases, jewelry and ancient instruments of immense historical value were discovered, and the Greek archaeological service worked wl th the military divisions. Tombs of the fifth and sixth centuries bore Christ wure found, and the civilization of ancient Mace

donia has been proved to o Identical with that of Greece of the- ?ame era. It is a stranpely comforting and reassuring thought that this htir.? to a frenzied modern world. We think our troubles are the only ones since the world began, but civilization marched its steady way for thousands of years before the present s'Jgar shortage and bolshevist outbieaks and steel strike and senatorial indecision. It will be marching iti slow and steady way thousands of years after the profiteers are dust, the bad railroad, postal and telephone services of 1319 have b'en forgotten, and "war chests" and "peace eheste" are no mor-x It isn't troubles tlint really matter. It is hr'W one takes them. If one meets them bravely and cheerily, at least one has the satisfaction that the serenity of one's own soul ir undisturbed. Allowing the mird to become confused by the present gerwal bewilderm ent is only to add to the

ch.'lOS ff the world. rMe- r ; ; : , ; j, ,;i j t l c ! . derfnl and l;ave faiifd and di 1 u .--.. became stab; in their serio sn Sr.!...;; ir --;i .-.; thf m to tho rarth. j.i-rr-s a me and b:r.' ! '!. a 1 1 d tl..n h ft.rr --nt':ri . i .-. -;.:;. r archaeologies eome nloj :.. ' th m in th ru :s-:in) a r'..- of i -. :'. der.e. 'Tie thine is rt.i ;n : prore-, wi ! ' world do move and i'.e i:. in wr.o .!--- because we ,'u thir:-- or.e v .iv rv'...1;.v. . . .'

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Suspension of Magazines as Literature.

If, as threatened, the leading magazines of the country suspend publication fcr a time, pending adjustment cf a dispute between rival unions of the printing trades in New York, the experience of being ceprived of thes periodicals may be not without value, for It will show to what extent we are dependent upon them for mental pabulum. It will be annoying to those who are reading continued ttories to be held in suspense as to the' outcome of the heroes' and heroines' adventurer; persons who receive much cf their stimulation to thought from magazine articles may feel lest; and the folk who derive p'.easure from the art features will miss them. Rut thers i co dancer of a Deriod of intellectuaj

starvation. The newspajers v ill satisfy the pt ineipal wants of the Eenera! reader. The public. r off from the periodical literature to which it has been accustomed, will read the papers more thoroughly and many will be surprised to lenrn how well th dailies cover the same field to which the weekly and monthy publications are devoted. The eprial features and c ntert lininsr articles, the instructive matter appearing on the editorial pape, will assume new importance. Several hour3 of readinsr are provided In the a vera re newspiper of today. If full justice is done no leisure will remain before bedtime for reading anythirg ej?e. It will be a revelation to those who have been accustomed to k!mmir.s through the paper to find out how much it

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