Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-03-21

William Randolph Hearst SAYS in
the New York American:
! do not know how complete tho
Russian revolution is whether il Is
merely a change from one autocrat
to another or whether it ID in reality
a step toward popular government.
imagine, however, that every dis
turbance Of this kind makes more
or less for popular government and
that the Russian revolution is sig-
| nificant in that way.
The revolutions are not going to
be confined to Russia Hollweg sees
and says that there is d new free
dom coming for Germany as well as
for Russia.
France has long had her freedom,
but will undoubtedly progress
further in the direction of Social
ism.
The revolution in England will be
as complete as elsewhere, but prob
ably not spectacular or violent. The
English people accomplish their
else they undertake, in stolid, un-
demonstrativo kind Of way, but
they accomplish them just the same.
l ~ AbQSoid WIS al AulONlGtgy AiS"
land was an aristocracy Every
thing in England has been for the
benefit of the ruling or aristocratic
classes. These aristocratic classes
had a trusta control in politics,
in land-ownership, in tax-eXemption,
in social recognition, IN all kinds Of
benefits and privileges.
The mass of the people were re-
duced TO the point of penury, and
were leaving the British Isles in
droves in order to lind elsewhere
the opportunity when they could
not secure at home
This Aristocratic Trust operaled
according, TO the accepted methods
OF the trust and absorbed into the
trust any man who showed excep-
tional ability or accumulated fOrmid-
able wealth, ennobling him, making
him q knight or baron, and 50
aligning him and his influence and
power with the aristocracy instead
Of with the people from whom he
came and with whom he should have
naturally been in sympathy.
Thus the Aristocratic Trust perpe-
tuated its privileges and fortified It's
position. 1t rode the masses al
most as cruelty as did the French
aristocrats before the French Rev
olution.
/ think that situation will be des-
troyed, and probably has been des-
troyed The people Of England will
never be content to go back to the
conditions that prevailed before the
war
, How much further the revolution
will go is question. III the war
continues long enough, and the peo-
pie of the various countries become
sufficiently resentful at their rulers,
befieye we win have revolutions Of
riot and revolutions OF repudiation--
revolutions which viii set up new
governments and refuse to be
bound by the obligations which the
old governments incurred.
That Is a thing which Americans
have to contemplate with some anx-
iety, and our papers have warned
Americans not to place too much
trust or invest too much money in
the present governments Of the llu-
ropean countries.
think the Administration at
Washington did right when It warn
cd American banks against invest
ments Of this kind, and think the
Administration did wrong when,
merely through resentment because
Of Germany's unwillingness to com
ply with Washington interpreta-
tion Of international law, the banks
We're allowed to extend their invest
ments in these perilous and pre-
carious foreign securities.