Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-12
Redping the WhirllDind
[From the New York World

lrIoH tne new orK world
Persons who hold that retrlbutive
justice demanded the invasion and
dcsolation of Germany will find that
the law of compensation is working
in that country in other ways.
1t was Germany that cleared tho
path for Bolshevikism in Russia.
Germany opened its gates to Lenine
and stood sponsor for him and Trot-
zky. German money and official in
huence sustained these extremists as
against all comers, and finally 1t was
Germany that used them and the
choice band of brigands at their ell
bows to betray at Brest-Litovsk their
country and their cause.
For a great deal of the crime and
violence chargeable to the Bolshe-
Wiki Germany must assume respon-
sibility. Without it's troops and
money and the official countenance
everywhere given by it to the worst
combination of desperadoes that
ever assumed the functions of gov
ernment, the murders, thefts and de-
vastations which have attended the
rule of the Reds could not have been.
Having gone into partnership with
Germany to receive in a diplomatic
capacity various representatives of
the masters of the Soviets. That its
hospitality would be abused was q
foregone conclusion. The Bolshevik
ambassador in Berlin and various
consular agents of the same fratern-
ity of assassination and pillage have
been found carrying on the work of
propagandists in all parts of Ger
many, and by imperial order the
whole embassy has been sent home
by the shortest routes.
Meantime the bloody instructions
that brought about the Brest-Iitovslx
betrayal and for a time bolstered the
power of Lenine and Trotzky have
returned to plague the inventor.
Germany itself is showing signs of
upheaval everywhere and in places
it is taking the hideous form of
Bolshevikism. We hear Of mutinies
on warships, of officers slain, of naval
bases seized and of mobs from the
barracks and the shops paradlng the
streets of the principal cities. Furth-
more, there are proc;amations in the
name of soldiers and workingmen
led by newly developed Jack Cades,
all grim reminders of the beginnings
VI dHdlCHy III INuSSld.
1t has been said that the Teutonic
race is too stolid and orderly to en-
gage extensively in lawlessness,
which perhaps may be true. We are
to remember, however, that almost
up to the hour when pandemonium
broke loose in Russia the writers of
books and essays on the people of
that country were assuring us that
anything like far-reaching revolu-
tion, was impossible. What hap
pened in Russia may happen in any
country where the people, wronged
and deceived. have been made des-
perate by suffering.
In war-making the Germans have
been taught that regard for the rights
of others is an unworthy manifesto
tion of weakness 1t will be a sorry
day for the overlords and supermen
of the empire If, recognizing enemies
at home, the people in their wrath
apply to them the practices in which
they have become so expert when
operating on foreign soil. Deplorable
as such violence always Is, who Is to
say that the rulers of Germany have
not invited 1t and who is to deny that
they fear it?
In Russia british ignorance long
oppressed produced its perfect fruit.
In Germany frightfulness as a ma
tional trait may yet find tragic illus
tration at home. By these fiery paths
democracies sometimes grope their
way to freedom and stability