The New York herald., 1920-01-25

the entrails out of one another for four years
TO accomplish this result-to accomplish the
overthrow of one man. And it is accomplished.
And it is we'll Autocracy has gone the mailed
fist has gone the strong arm-gone in Ger
many. What will follow? VIII the rcd fsg
follow it did in Russia? and riots? and mobs?
and disorder and murder? and plunder? and
Nreckage? and trampled fields? and demolished
factories? and violated women? and the scsf-
fold? and the guillotne? and carnage? and
chaos? Who can tell? II they follow What is
be done? What can be done with = ma ton Of
madmen?'
Safe for Democracy
Again the plutocrat felt his nerves giving
way The premontion of evil began to creep
back again in his mind picture of the over
throw Of plutocracy in Russia flashed uTsr
.hm-phe unreasoning peasants the boisterous
Amazons, the brutal Cossacks. the wrecked
chateaux. the ravished women. the trampled
gardens. the fugitive mobiles.
But We have won the war" he reflected,
"and the world is safe for democracy. DEM
ocracy, Democracy. What is democracy?
this new brand Of democracy-this Russian
democracy? What is it when ii goes to the
last extreme? [ stagger at the definition. ls
it anarchy? | dare not answer for am q
patriot and live in a republic
The plutocrat felt his nerves breaking under
the strain of agitation and he left the window.
repairing to his bedchamber. lie drank 2 deer.
long draught of whiskey and soon his faculties
became torpid Hs sank slowly into uncon-
sciousness. soliloquizins IN broken sentences to
the last almost inaudibly
The roar and the din-and the, clash-and
the camor sound yet in my ears. The tumuIt
detonates out into the distance. II IL the mor'
1t is hideous 1t is horrible. II is midnight
l sleep
In the morning the plutocrat awoke fresh and
rested. The shining The streets were
empty and quiet The mob was gone the world
was normal again The danger and the license
had disappeared. the menace OF rebellion had
vanished the phantasm of the night before had
faded
The plutocrat smiled II only night
mare and il passed There he stood in tho
midst OF his luxury and wealth. lie went on
more vigorously than ever with his vast projects
Of finance He made more money after the
armistice than he had before. Prices jumped
he helped to jump them The masses we're
helpless in his grip he had seemed to
be in theirs on armistice night He merci-
less. NOW was lHt tiiHe 10 diidS0 NtdllA' sHoNN
sentiment had no place in his calculations. lie
was a spitalist and this the great age OF
capital OF course the income tax vexs-
tious. IT depleted the surplus profits. but all
one had to do was to make more profits. 1t
was in fact. largely matter OF bookkeeping.
for in the long run. as everybod know. thc
taxes fell upon the common people.
The Wearing Game.
But even the sport OF grinding out millions
becomes at last monotenous. The game began
to pail on the putocrat. Moreover. he had e
mind This was his most conspicuous defect.
It led him frequently to mediate After time
the visions OF armistice night began to recur
to him Again he saw the surging masses jam
the streets he saw them override the police. ""
saw them kick in the plate glass window OF
aIoons and sreedy drink down the raw rel
liquor he saw them crowd up on the porchc
OF sristocrats and revel in the license OF their
liberty he heard them howl and groan and
hiss and jeer And again he realized what
menace those masses might become were they
to be lnstgated by rage instead OF mirth. Ito
wondered why the sometimes became
enraged Plutocracy never became enragcd
Plutocracy seemed to him the natural state of
man He had always been plutocrst Ill
grandfather. Uprisings and mobs and riots aud
rebellions never sprang from plutocracy. tho
always burst forth from the masses There
must be some reason for this lie determined TO
Investigate.
The mind of this plutocrat being sufficiently
powerful so that neither wealth environ
ment could sure it's activities, he wandered OH
in mis- researches. almost into forbidden fields
lie read Adam Smiths Wealth OF Nstiona
and he even read ''Platos Republic and Cam
panelia's CITY Of the sun" and More's 'rto-
pia and Bacons Atlantis ana Rousscap's
social Contract" These we're imaginary aud
fantastic states TO be sure. but some Of the
arguments OF these great thinkers nearly CON
vinced the plutocrat lie remembered Flatos
observations that any city however small
in fact divided into two. one tho city u the poor
the other OF the rich. these are constantly at
war with one another" Plato argued that in
= perfect state OF civilization this autagonisni
ought not to be Tho plutocrat nearly agreed
to this.
The Labor Of the Poor.
lie also remembered sir Thomas Morc's sssci
ton u" The rich desire every means hy which
they may IN The first place secure 70 themselve-
what they have amasscd by wrong and thcn
take to their own use and profit. at tho loves
possible price the work and labor Of tho poor.
And so soon the rich decide on adopting these
devices in the name Of the public then they bo-
come law" or course. More although Al one
time Prime Minister Of England. was politca,
Continued Ncit rase.