The Washington times., 1919-01-09
Today
A Big FIe In Europe.
Keep h Away From Here. :
Autocraey's Eggs Scrambled.
German Civil War.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

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By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
The latest is that Lenine is ar
rested by order Of Trotzky, and
the latter is sole dictator in Rus
sia
II Is the usual story Of a revo-
luton which runs like a fever. 1t
starts, has its high point, dies
down. II is the high point Of the
fever In Russia now. and the usual
thing is happening. You read it in
Cariyle's history Of the revolution
in France.
Dsnton and Robespierre worked
together. On q day fatal for him,
Danton protested to Rcbespierre
against executions that con-
founded the innocent and the
guilty.
"And who told you," Robe
spierre replied, with a poisonous
look, "that one innocent person
had perished?"
That settled Danton's fate.
Robespierre soon had him arrested
and soon after beheaded. And not
much later Robespierre was gull
lotined In his turn. Danton knew
his danger. He said: GAS long
as they talk Of Robespierre and
Danton. very well; beware when
they talk about Danton and Robe
SPHERE"
Later We shall know what kind
OF talk it was that made Trotzky
lock up Lenine. Lenine as he re-
tires from the scene may say of
Trotzky what Danton said of
Robespierre, quoting Carlyle again:
II leave the whole business in a
frightful welter: not one of them
understands anything of govern
ment Robespierre will follow me:
/ drag down Robespierre. Oh, it
were better to be a poor fisherman
than to NEEDLE with the govern
ment of men,"
II is difficult for those in Amer
lea not fully understanding Rus
sian conditions to form any ac-
curate Judgment concerning the
revolutionary movement there.
Lenine Is not, as has been
falsely asserted, Jew who
changed his name from Braun
stein. He is q Slav, a fanatic,
representing the extreme of rad
icalim. And Lenine is his name.
He would call himself a MARKHAM
Socialist. He wrote two fat vol
umes ON Karl Marxism. But il is
Russian Marxism, attempting to
adapt the theories Of Karl Marx.
written in the highly developed
German industrial nation, to Rus
sia, which Is still in a state of
feudahm, about where France
was in the time Of Louis XIV.
There is no capitalism, except
IN Petrograd and some Polish
cities. r-Es-a
As to what has really happened
there, we know little. II
The present condition is not
known, and the future cannot be
guessed. The only certainty is
that the eggs Of autocracy have
been thoroughly scrambled and
will never be unscrambled-not
those same eggs.
A new egg Of autocracy may be
laid, a new Gar Matched out, r;s-
ing to power as Napoleon rose
from the ashes Of the French
Revolution. But the Romanoffs
and the "httle father" business
are dead.
Germany also has her civil war,
with fighting and killing in the
streets of Berlin. The Kaiser did
not realize how much infiamnabIe
stun there was around when he
struck that match in 1914.
The hope for peace and some
form OF stable government in Ger
many seems 10 rest with Ebert
and Haase, the former a workman
that used to make harness before
he started making a republic, the
latter a small Prussian land
owner.
Their opponent Liebknecht. rep
resenting those that demand the
impossible, Is the exact anthithesis
OF his father. II he wins and his
"Spartacus Party" gets power, you
may pity Germany, what there is
left of her.
Even from England come mur-
murs Of discomfort The crews of
mine sweepers decline to risk thei..
lives. now that war is over. Eng