Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-08
Saturday Morning, August 8, 1914
THRONEs oR PEoPLE

doddering old emperor in Austria a week and medt ocre in Russia and virle German "war lord" may plunge Europe into universal conflict the issue not in their hands The forces let loose in such ti tanic struggle may work out in ways vastly different from the aims of rulers and diplomats.
 It will be remembered that Napoleon III went blthe- ly to against Germany in 1870 and when that quick sharp conflict closed there was no Napoleon France al most over night had become a republic
 Win it be so with Germany, with Russia, with Aus ria and other nations may be sucked into the whirlpool?
 Says Dr. Paul Kaplan, Russian revolutionary leader in New York The danger to the ruling class of Russia lies within quite much as withou, tae em. pire The Russian reyoluuonists including practically all the peasant and industrial classes will take adyan- of the war put effect their plans of reyoIu- ton, long since maured The movement will extend through the army and navy, as well as the civil popua- uon'
 In France the great Socialist leader Jean Leon Jaures has just been assassnaed It was the deed of cracbrained enthusiast as was the assassination of the Austrian crown prince by seryian at sarajeyo and like fatal act it was merely symptom of the inevitable conflict of forces it Mnitarism against Socialism Jaures was killed because he denounced war
 
 In spite of the silence of censored cables, there comes from almost every nation in Europe the rumbIng Of Socialist dscontent With war imminent. they have protested in Berlin st. Petersburg Rome and London and even Vienna. Germany has its 50OOoOO soldiers. but Germany has nearly 4OOO0OO Socialists constitutns the strongest political party in the empire restiye under partial disanchisemeut and with steadfast policy Of antmitarism. There are nearly 100000 Socialists in rr.
 perhaps 100000 in Italy. In Russia the numbe- is un. known, but very great
 Now. out of the chaos may possibly come stroua Man-anothor Napoleon the head of great European empire Judged from preparedness and fighting power by land Germany the most likely of the Power- to out at the top of the heap and Kaiser Wilhelm might oonceisably crown his with the mastery the continent
 But if no such Napoleon arises, the other alterna tive seems certain Instead of a set of mediocre gen uemen wornout ancestral strain wearing crowns and assuming to govern millions Of subjects" Che crown. may be rolled in the dust along with all the insignia o nobility. in a new France Revolution and tbe plain peo ole may emerge the masters.
 In such revolution the Socialists would doubtless have the ascendancy. They have program and an or raulzaton They know, or think they know what to do In reorganization of shattered European society hei very selrconddeuce would give them control And wiu political exhaustion and the destruction or boundaries institutions and industries we should sec them at won in an epochal effort to create a new order.
 Out of the medieval crusades came limited monat chios instead of royal absolutism. Likewise out of general European war in this ultramodem age even State socialism does not triumph may expect to SO ue emereencc Of real democracy.