The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-07
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923
REVOLUTIONS IN U. S. AND EUROPE

An editorial writer crltlclzlng reference by Herbert Hoover to ''the clap-trap of the French revoIuton,' says in the Washington Times Hearst paper: "Don't desipse 'revo lutionary clap-trap.' The French brand gave us our Revolution.'
 The author of that editorial knows very little about either the French revolution ol the American revolution. The American revo lution preceded the French revolution by sev eral wears and bore no resemblance to It II causes, conduct or consequences The mon archv which was OverthrOWn by the Frencl revolution came to the aid of the American colonists in their uprising against the British crown.
 It is doubtless true that the success of the American colonists in substantiating then Declaration of Independence was a source o1 inspiration to the Republican spirit in France In their character and in their declared princi ples the French revolutionarles were as fal removed from Washington and his associates as one set of men could be from another Ihe leaders of the American Revolution were sane patriots not bloody handed wild men. They were sages and warriors, not demogogues ano assassins. They had Tories to contend with but they did not make the streets of Boston Philadelnha or New York run red with then blood When independence was established thov did not dissinatp the results of reVolu ton in tyranny established in the name ot fine spun theories of government bearing nc relation to human nature.
 Because the Revolutionary patriots were sane, practical men rather than mere dema gooical phrase mOngers, they have been round lv abused by some of our modern writers or politics and sociology, who imagine 1t IS as easy to create or maintain a government as Ii is to string out words on the subject.
 The French revolution brought little nm mediate gain to the world because with al their fine talk and attitudinizing, the leaders were demagogues and dOctrinaires, and witt if all. filled with envy and hatred and lust fo power rather tthan with love of country an' of mankind. In this they were like the Dresen military masters of Russia, who wiod the bay onet and the bludgeon on those who dare t( disagree with them politically and while pro fession to be filled with love for humanity hold ooonlo in the most miserable thralldom
 Washington Franklin, Hamilton. Jefferson Adams Hancock and their contemDorarles O the American Revolution rise above the tv rants and assassins of the French and Rus siain revolutions as Mount Everest tower above a mole hill They were mentally an( morally so far beyond Robesnierre. Danton Lenine and Trotskv that words could fail t' measure the intervening distance
 There is no benefit to humanity in mer revolution for revolutions sake, even a@ains tyranny, unless those who effect the revoln ton have virne and wisdom enough to sub stitute something better. That our Revoln tionarv forefathers were ah1e to do this is thel greatest glory The the French and Russian revo1utionists overthrow one tyranny onlv t' establish others representing their own"selfish ness and brutality is to their everlastin! shame The American who cannot grasp th differences between the practical political phil osophy of our founding fathers and the clap trap of European movements engineered b, cheap demagogues lusting for power and us ing noble phrases to further ignoble ends, l lacking in comprehension of what American ism means. y- y-.es*T..E q D., fa-. svs& As>