New-York tribune., 1918-07-17
The Hearst Revolution

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To the right, on this page, we repro
duce from yesterdays Ne1U York Amseri-
can the prospectus of the revolution, by
Arthur Brisbane.
The first item, as it was also in the
programme of Lenine and Trotzky, is
peace with Germany. Germany really
wants peace at last" says Brisbane.
Who is Arthur Brisbane and what are
his sources of information that he should
know what Germany really wants? He
doesn't Germany wants to end the war
by terms in order not to lose it. Hearst
and Brisbane want the war to stop be-
cause they still believe darkly that a
great many people, perhaps enough to
make a revolution, are paciist, as tho
Bolsheviki were-which is to say less
anti-German than ant-capital--and that
the time is ripe to enthrone envy and un-
restraint and have that orgy of destruc-
ton the thought of which so strangely
moves their minds
Second is the apology. The apology
is that there is in this country, too, an
autocracy that must be destroyed. So
said Lenine and Trotzky.
Third is the hideous suggestion that
the mob shall kill whom it hates. "Get a
short history of the French Revolution"
says Brisbane, speaking not to those
whom he pretends to be addressing, but
to the ircipient mob--the mob of his i'm
aginaton. Find out what happened to
the king and court that would not listen
to Necker, preferring Foulon and Ber-
thier-soon to have their bodies kicked
around in a gutter by mob Of Paris.''
Fourth is the invitation to the SOL
der to hold his weapon at his country's
head and demand whatever he wants.
Lenine and Trotzky said to the soldiers:
Come and take the land and the fac
tories and call them your own!" Bris-
bane, again speaking to the mob, under
pretence of addressing the rich, writes
"You and your property-not they-wil
bear the brunt if the storm comes. Soon
millions of men will come back from
France impressed with the value Of
force, and knowing how to use it,"
But read, and then consider what a
typical reader of the Neau York Ame1t-
can will make of it, He will make this
of it: That the country in time of war is
IN the hands of men who wantonly and
without limit rob and despoil the people:
that the government allows this condi-
ton to exist; that unless something is
done about it the people will have to rise
and XIII the persons to blame, and may
be pardoned if in the heat of their anger
they kick the bodies around the gutter.
That is the logic of the article. The
average Neao York American reader is
logical In the terrible, primitive way of
all Bolsheviki since the struggle for civ
lllzation began. 1t is the logic that saws:
What is bad must be destroyed To de-
stroy means to kill; therefore, kill the
bad government"
That was the logic of Czolgosz, a read
er of the Ne1c York Journal (after-
ward renamed Amcrican). He be-
ileved the government was bad and de-
served to be destroyed. He assassinated
President Mckinley, who was the head
of it,
The programme is now complete. The
leaders are already elected. On April 20
last, in an editorial explaining whv
Hearst was being attacked, his papers
nominated him to be to the American
revolution what Mirabeau was to the
French Revolution. Evidently Brisbane
now reserves for himself the role of
Necker.
The other parts will be assigned as
circumstances dictate. We know of one
body that ought never to be kicked
around in the gutter by any Hearst -Bris-
bane mob That is the body Of Joseph p.
Tumulty Secretary to the President. He
has taken precious care of himself. He
makes public acknowledgment of his
friendship with Brisbane. He lunches
with him affectionately. When he is
asked he writes extolling little notes on
White House stationery. One of them is
now being distributed widely over the