The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31
Today,
Many Deer, Few Wolves.
II Pays to Help.
Read About kropotkin.
He Mas q Real Man.
ARTHUR BRISBANE

he MAS q Real Man.
by ARTHUR BRiBBANE--l
tcopynsht issi,
Prince KTopotkin, reported dead.
VIII be welcomed IN heaven as one
that fought courageously for his
feilow men. Member OF the ancient
Russian mobility. born in the privi-
legged class, he was q radical from
his youth and a brave worker for
the poor. He produced scientific
works OF high value and. hunted
out Of Russia, living unknown In
England. he earned his bread by
trsnslating his own works into
English.
Like many others, Kropotkin
lived to see the people that he had
led rush past aud beyond him. Ho
knew, before he died, that encour
aging revolution is like loosening
great rock at the top Of noun
tain--you cannot tell how far 1t
will roll or what 1t will do.
Enlisted in his boyhood in the
aristocratic corps of pages and
brought up in the Russian court,
Kropotkin used his right to choose
his own regiment and Joined the
Siberian Cossacks. He was the
ono man In million that rebelled
against injustice that does not
touch him.
Reading French revolutionary
writer's, spreading their doctrines
In Russia, he spent the early part
Of his life in valuable scientific
work, remaking the map Of Asia.
Then he realized that what the
world needs is not few additional
scientific facts but wide distribu-
ton Of knowledge already in mems
possession.
Kropotl1in was a real radical,
and was treated as such. Switz-
srland expelled him; Russia would
have made short work of him, had
she been able to get him. France
sentenced him to five years in
prison.
Best of Kropotkin's revolution
. ary writings are La Conquete dat
Patn-the Conquest of Bread; The
State, It's Part in History, and
Fields, Factories, aud Workshops.
The story of his life, Memoirs
Of a RevoL1tionist, and his Mutual
Aid, q Factor of Evos,ltiom, have
most interest for American read
erD.
fxtxaI Ala, written in 1902,
1 ~ Ahat the mere struggle for
&n>1ee, one animal striving to
~ eat another, does not ex-
ze on this planet. y
[!(S K important, even among
-, than savage competition
= MUTUAL AID, one helping
wolves and bseEszbsve
'yyI6 kI4led. .off. .tlfe deer stilf J7yess
Wolves and bears each thought
only of himself. The gentle deer,
living peaceably in herds, were
interested in each other and warm
ed each other. OF fifty deer in a
herd, every one had for its pro-
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hundred ears on the alert
In America, two hundred years
ago, seeing everywhere herds OF
deer, and packs Of wolves living
on them, you might have said, The
wolves will last as long as there
2 are any deer left for them to eat"
But IL was not so. The wolves
killed and ate their wounded. The
deer helped each other. They still
are here and the wolves are gone.
So with human beings, those
that helped each other. survived
and their descendants live to in
fluence other generations. The
selfish and savage are killed off,,
Therefore human beings are not
quite the blood-thirsty, cannibal-
istic creatures they were a few
thousand years ago.
One incident told by Kropotkin
NAV interest gentlemen who think
it their duty to fight the Jews as
selfish, graspine people.
Kropotkin travelled first class
on the railway; he was noble
man. The police were not apt to
bother him. But when he wanted
to bring dangerous, revolutionary
literature into Russia, the under
taking was so dangerous that he
was glad to hire two Polish Jews
to transport the intellectual printed
dynamite on the railway for him.
BE promised liberal reward and
would have given it.
When they met him at his desti-
nation and delivered the forbidden
literature, Kropotkin got a new
idea of Jewish character. They de-
clined to accept one penny beyond
the cost of return ticket. This
they took because they were poor.
They told Kropotkin that the sat
isfaction of helping to spread
knowledge was sufficient pay for
the work they had done. And they
had risked their lives.
How does that impress gentle
men who say Jews think Of, and
care for, nothing but money?
Because you see Jew success
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