The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-27
THE REVOLT OF
THE INEFFICIENT
BY Harold McGrath

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What is this thing men call Boil
shevism? I'll tell you in single
phrase. 1t is the revolt OF the in
efficient. Not the revolt of skilled
la Dor. OF the brain worker; but the
revolt of the men who can't do thin gs
and want TO pull down the man who
loan, Remember that Keep it always
| in front of you. The revolt of the in
efficient. resentine the prosperity at
the efficient. l don't mean Prussian
efficiency: | mean human efficiency.
There is a certain class of Amer
leans who have near-hrains and moth
| ing to do. They search for something
different" These are the parlor Boil
shevists. They are harmful only in
I that they are allowed to talk freely.
! WHAT .s the proletariat Lenine and
| Trotsky whine about He is actually
| the lowest in the human scale. the
! lliterate, the superstitious. the igno-
| rant. in a country which has no free
, dom of opportunity. great many
people mistake the word for the labor
I ing man. Never in this world Lenine
1 and Trotsky--the two greatest crimi-
! nal demagogues God ever permtted
/ TO walk tho earth--say that this prole
tariat shall rule the world What a
! tragic joke, Imagine it, All one has
! to do Is to glance at RUSSIA part
/ OF it, mind YOU. For two-thirds OF
Russia are fighting Bolshevlsr,
To make all men equal. says
! Trotsky. Men are equal only in law
full privileges Keep that in your
mind. They are not born equal. they
never will be born equal. They are
equal only In the privileges of the Law
of the land,
To give TO the lowest In the human
| scale the seats OF the mighty! A child
! with box of matches, alone in the
! house! The same thing and Trotsky
| has labored to prove 1t.
| Liberty. says Democracy. License
says Bolshevism.
Equality. says Democracy Xii
those who are above you, says Bolshe'
visrn.
Fraternity. says Democracy. xii
your brother. if he refuses To inhabit
your madhouse, says Bolshevism,
Demolition, to the tune of the Mar
seiliaise,
! One Of the greatest things in the
world is the sense OF possession We
! Americans have that sense in tn,
greatest degree We are he great
est individual property owners in the
| world That is why we shall never
run. amuc& But for all that. when
! we see a rattlesnake, we kill it,
| There can be no real patriotism
| where there is no sense OF possession
: The Bolsheviki in Russia never had
! anything, But division of property
is the cry The preletariat will divide
with the middle class. This is to say
| the inefficient will divide among them
selves what efficiency has accumulat
ed. Beautiful idea,
The truth is, after great wars the
! scum always comes to the top. An
archism, red socialism. Bolshevism
| In all Dem ocracies, the rights OF
man are slowly but surely arriving.
You cannot make Utopia tomorrow by
writing it down on sheet of paper.
And that is what the Bolshevist has
done, Little mud-volcanoes.
Murder and loot, in the name OF the
brotherhood OF man! The lion will
share his meat with the ass, who
viii refuss his oats to the lion
How quiet Socialism is these days
now that many of its theories have
been put into practice and been proven
failures. For Bolshevism is socialism
running amuck.
What is the answer to all this
| turmoil of war and reconstruction :?
That Democracy alone has survived.
Where is autocracy? Vanished And
Bolshevism will vanish likewise, as
| the acrid smoke vanishes after the
fire Is beaten down.
Democracy alone will survive, for
| Bolshevism is the revolt of the in
efficient.