The Washington times., 1922-05-04
MAY 4, 1922
Curing By Killing

HE recent assassination of one of the Russian liberals
IN Berlin; the attempted assassination of Professor
Mlllukotf, another Russian liberal, by the Russian
Czars reactonares and the discovery the Russian
border OF nest of would be assassins of the same
stripe call to mind the fact that in all these revolu
onary eruptons during and since the great war; murder
has been done practically by the reaconaes and by
the radicals.
The great began by the assassination of Jaures
the French Socialist leader and probably the greatest
living orator in any language His assassin
executed and punished by anything that be
called punishment.
In Austria, in Hungary, in Bavaria, in Prussia the
victims of assassination radicals The murderers
reactionaries In Russia and Finland ten men were
slaughtered by the White Guards to every whose
life was taken in retaliation by Reds.
This appears to be great rule of history, for it is
fact that throughout history both of ancient and modern
times, in all countries, the assassins generally those
who seeking to acquire seeking to hold special
privilege and the victims generally the leaders of
the great majority seeking to get back what they have
lost by chicane abuse of power.
For every drop of blood shed by French Revoutonss
buckets of blood have been shed by the astocracy and
the adherens Of the French monarchs in the of
history.
In the ancient world the leaders of the people were
nearly always the victims.
Iiberus Gracious died the hands of the nobiltys
assassins simply because he fighting make the
nobility give back the public the lands which they had
stolen from the public domain and from which they were
driving the sturdy farmers who the backbone of
the Roman power who exchanged their plows for their
short swords and made up the famous legions which
conquered the world.
These farmers being displaced by imported slaves
and driven into the city become pauperzed and cor
rupted.
Then years later Tberus Gracious younger brother,
Gau took up the where his brother murder had
left it and proposed to settle upon the public land the
soldiers of the legions who had home full of
and honors bringing wealth to the nobility but poverty
and no occupation for themselves.
Young Gracious also assassnated when his leader
ship became dangerous the stolen property of the
nobility, and have Cicero, the new man. the social
climber, the mouhpiece of the patrican nobility, ap-
proving the killing of Gracious and of Claudius and
perverting history that future generations might not
read the Alright Sula's assassination tells the
story.
In Athens in Corinth, in Thebes there is ample proof
that the rule through all peoples. In Italy during
the renaissance when the light from the democratic cities
of Northern Italy broke through the dark murky clouds
of the Middle Ages, assassination the method of
the reactonay and privileged seeker against those whom
they called radicals.
This rule has basis in You can often destroy
great popular movement by destroying its leader You
rarely destroy reactonary system by DESTROY
ing its chief its gurehead because the reactionary
minority not dependent upon leaders, and because
also, reaconaries much the product of conditions
which they have not created in their generation as
of conditions. which they themselves have made They
quite often the product Of faults in the dispos-
sessed well as faults in the possessors.
Indifference, stupidity and ignorance the part of
the often responsible for the rise of an ex
plotting class in the community is the deliberate
schemng of the expoiters So it does not avail to kill
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