Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-24
From Other Viewpoints
Power OF Feeble Minority.
BY DIR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS.

An official in Washington HIS Just given out
to the s1a aow 6ens S Spen for o.
Of our government. with Tho note OF su,aor
ins 10 the Russian government that was seized
~ The yis,s is being used 70 finance t nc
@9uniIy and par;suiar!y IN rally and !he
tions are so armly founded. our prosperity So
great as 20 MAKE hess snem s seem CONTEMPT
SHERATON: however that gives pause TO thought
i, IS ssr1ikng fae, ,ha; feeble and con
q nearly ,wenty millions Of people in France
not Right ous Tho Erenea af!vs
o'ution. the farmers we're opening The ;urrows,
me Ss @sr end a sangE sr Ths
5r';,.Et; ,hsr vines and spenins the vines.
secS We're repaiTins ana building houses the
ne .inr Inc co - thn snnners' wnc c IN TIC
snli and WOODEN mills and the merchants we're
lew thousand revoiu,ionists rsanizins the Red
%ar II ousand aes revo dna
iion'sts. headed by men unGer tho influence OF
These asl,ators nlled the PUBLIC eye. Hu, there
o 6 SH XIX INC TheT Mera In o o
the % d s9 louis Inc ys MAJ
jndEe pronounced sentence upon :hc Widow
Gare s and Marie Anioinete was driven toward
ia for four boeks and pressed around
i tic next morning did the people o. Paris
''n 1os, y,h, IL had Ia, aiken place,
cyclone in the Southwest. That tornado de-
stroycd twenty or thirty houses. II cut a path
twenty rods wide. Meanwhile, ali OF tho rest
OF the three thousand miles OF farms and fac
tories, and towns ana cities. between the At
tant,c and Pacific. were untouched, and the
people went forward. quietly fulfilling lhe:r
o1nado fliedi 10; otherwisc vas i, Witb i lie
most dramatic events in tho history OF inc
French Revolution. Ninety nine per cent OF
M French people did not even know what had
aiken place IN Paris untu weeks after ths
event. There was one lit:le cycio:l:c ccnte. ono
tornado-like point. around which the forces %
obstruction moved. \; time was Their. more
man a score of guiding revolutionary shirts
!hese few iDtiamcd and organized twenty or
,nlriy tboushnd savage followers who sharp
cAed spcars. ground charcoal for powder. liEhted
-prches and brought about the cat: OF some
: ich thousand people.
T.,te that little handrul o. malignant ana
po"eIlui leaders, out Of tho year 1883 and there
,:ouid nav" beer polit.cal reformation in
! fiapcn accoinpitshcd by ordcr!y proGosscx II
haa iiot escaped the attention Of historians that
/ the mob that has lost ita leader soon disin.
/ hGSTAtca and becomes iinpotcnt null ,itude
! !he member OF Parliament who bit ycstorLay
| r'couhltd in the House oe Commons his on
| h..ifnces IL Prussia dnr!as the era OF Dolshev-
! ,sn observed tAat the revolution had lis power
! .htppsH one .: the mont st!!fni dcina gos,Ics
@nd leaders IL tue ar, OF nam!ng passion
I Snown 20 history -Trotzliy. and that wiihou;
| IFotEnS and onc or two OF his associate o. thc
,tnfsian tcpuhi". under <crensky. would have
S!oWiy rEhtcd tho wrong of tho old regime.
hli the should fix the thought Of Americans
| npon INC influence Of thcsc radicals who arc
Negligent IN numbcr. but fully competent 10
/ light spark that will bacome q oon1agration.
] The Bolshevista In tho United Stntee arc like
the reyolpttonlEt OF France in number, hut fully
equal TO the exploding OF hidden dynamite.