The Washington times., 1920-08-14

france or England.
Foolish Assassins.
They Sleep in Glory.
First Class Brigand.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE

siasS hCipo oShSioi Viohkci
and practically declares war
against Russia, because what
Frenchmen want is the thirty bill
lions of francs that the Gar owed
TO the French nation.
Lloyd George declines to have
any part in Frances movement
against the Bolsheviki, because
England's workmen. who haven't
invested their money in Russian
bonds. say that if the British
government tries TO make them
fight Russia they will fight the
British government.
London Punch, which expresses
the Intelligence" of middle class
England, prints a picture of
little rabbit, marked the Allies"
gazing into the eyes of a gigantic
snake, which is labeled Third In
ternational," meaning Bolshevism.
The foolish little rabbit is saying:
"Since ! have no weapon, l must
fascinate with my eyes," Eng
land knows that the league is a
joke.
Does this nation want to 60
into the League of Nations on the
side OF France or on the side of
England in this Russian matter
1t cannot 20 with both, for they
are not working together. Isn't
it wiser to stay out, letting France
do whatever her holders of Rus
sian bonds demand and letting
England do whatever her work.
men demand, while we attend to
our business?
Political assassins are worse
than criminals-they are danger
ously stupid. They prove it by at
tacking men that are needed. This
applies to Greek officers who tried
to kill Venizelos two days ago and,
fortunately, failed. 1t applies to
the sentimental Brutus and his
friends that killed Caesar. If he
had lived Roman power might
have lasted longer and the tri-
umph of northern barbarism might
have been less complete.
1t applies to Charlotte Corday,
who murdered Marat. If he had
lived he might have made a sue
cess of the French revolution at
once without the preliminary i'm
perialism and massacres of Ma
poleon.
The same rule would probably
apply (although thousands will
shrek mo, no!") to the person
that probably will arise to assassi-
nate Lenin-two have attempted
already-and thus throw Russia
into absolute anarchy.
Lenin MIGHT, although it is
doubtful, establish permanent
government. He could do it, if
other nations would allow the Rus
slams to make money and thus
forget, as iSusual with money
makers, their first ardor for .re-
SSform and perfection. n
General Organ, back from
France, says: "Lst United States
heroes sleep in French soil. Their
graves are we'll cared for"
They are very well cared for,
and that gives comfort to the liv-
ing. But in a few years, how lit
tie it all matters. Where are the
graves of the men that died in the
"Seven Years War" or the Thirty
Years War" or the Hundred
Years War;" Where are the
graves of the men killed at Crecy,
or the Battle of Hastings, or the
Battle of Waterloo?
Billions and billions of human
beings, some heroes, some towards,
have gone into the ground, their
graves are unknown. Every grave
that exists today will be lost and
forgotten ten thousand years from
now, and ten thousand years is a
day in the worlds history.
The only important question is
what can be done in life to make
our life worth while in future ages.
What happens to the grave now is
nothing. y
They opened the grave of
Charlemagne and found it empty,
that doesn't diminish his glory.
They took out the coffin Of Vol
taire and scattered his ashes on
waste ground when the revolution
apparently died. But he lives and
works in the French Republic to-
day, and all over the world where
men are free, just as he lived in
the revolution that apparently
failed temporarily.
American soldiers that rest in
the soil of France did good work
that will live. They helped to end
autocracy as an established insti-
tuition on earth. That is their
glory, nothing else counts.
John Henderson, of No. 1856
Sutter street, San Francisco, says
that he is very old, and adds II
depend on what little capital l
have saved for maintenance of
self and wife" 1t disturbs him to
hear Continual criticism of capi-
tai as il it were something crimi-