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Show I, ' I IS A REVOLUTION COMING? f I There is loud talk of revolution. Yesterday's Standard-Exam-! iuer had a dispatch from Washington, in which the department of justice was quoted as having discovered an agitation in favor of vio-1 vio-1 lence. No bo'dv of men in the United States should so deceive them-' them-' . Selves as to 'believe violence can be successful in this' country. This fs the most, liberal country on the face of the earth. The government , is so organized that, when a majority has a real grievance, a remedy js provided in t lie ballot box. ' . : I Of course, if citizens simply Complain during 364 days in the ' year and on election day fail to vote their -sentiments, it becomes j Evident they have no deep or nbiding convictions', and no -complaint That stirs their conscience, otherwise they would vote as they taJk. ' I Since the war many men have grown restless and strange thoughts have possessed large numbers of workers. The editor, was 1 jiscussing public questions with a chance acquaintance who boarded, the same" car. The fellow spoke openly or drastic action. Unsaid the workers no longer would go half way; that -when they became hungrv thev would obtain whatever they desired. I The man was well dressed, and above the average in intelligence, but it was plain he had become obsessed with the idea that the time, fiad arrived when America could be made a Russia, where, by anarchy anar-chy and no regard for established rights, the whole order of society ft ad been changed. I But Americans are not Russians and will not yield to the des-L des-L pcrate deeds of the soviet, r.d, furthermore, America is a more eom-I eom-I I plcx industrial and commercial nation which, once disorganized by 5 f revolution, would slump into the bottomless pits of misery, deslitu-lJi deslitu-lJi 1 ion and crime. . 1 In Russia the Bolshcviki shot, down the intellectuals, wrecked m-I m-I I Sustry and appropriated food and clothing. Russia is a country 1 1 fvherc there is no highly developed industrial pursuits. Nearly all m the people live on farms' or in small villages. When anarchy reincd 1 11) supreme, the peasantry found sustenance and shelter on the farms. 1 1'j - "What would happen in America, if a similar reign of terror were 1 1 to prevail? I All the great manufacturing centers would be swept as by lire. I ; Inclustrv would be flattened to the earth. With only a small per-I per-I S centagc of the people devoted to the cultivating of the soil, millions I ! of men, women and children would starve before the big industries I 1 could be re-established and the machinery of commerce restored. I : The war in Europe would be a pleasant memory compared with 1 the horrors of this debauchery of civilization. I Whenever men begin to think of violence as a means to an end, I they must look farther ahead tharf, the mere inflicting of a mastery I jl over those who now arc the ob.icctof -their revenge; they must ask I themselves as to the jMiins anarchy will leave, and then survey the I 1 entire field to discover how tfteTFis to be a rebuilding on the scenes jfn of their wild excesses. ' ffj In one day the hand of destruction could do more damage to a B country so complex in its organizations as is America, than ten years of industry could repair, and one month of the firebrand and dyna-W dyna-W miter would leave wreckage almost beyond recovery. |