The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-16
Not by Force.
(New York Times. )

In the preface to his new book President Roose- welt makes light of all the talk about fascism, dictatorship and revolution He declares tnat II II there is to be revolution in this country it must be "peacefuln This is undoubtedly correct. It is a truth which spokesmen for CWA worKers at the City Hall Thursday forgot or detleo. we have the force" asserted one of them; ana some foolish ones among the crowd talked about throw ing the Mayor out of the City Hall and taking charge themselves. Such counsels of violence ana madness if they were to be widely followed-Whcn they will not be-might lead to dictatorship, put never to the sort of revolution which many nowadays are rolling like a sweet morse under ther tongues. When one asks them how they are to bring about their revolution it at becomes plain that most of them have not thought the thing through
 few timidy tacitly advocate force They would seize" the government of cities first then oi the States and finally the nation. But the more sensible and realistic of them know that tnls would never go in the United States So they turn to the thought of ballots not bullets. The discontented, the unemployed the multtudes dissatisfied with existing political parties will be educated ana or ganized into new political party which finally will be strong enough to outvote the others and take charge of the Government. To this plan there IS no sound legal or even moral objection. This coun- try acts on the theory of rule by the majority
 If the reyolutionists or the ayowed Com munists can rally majority of voters behlnd them they will be entitled to decide now ule
 country shall be governed. Let them go ahead Let them hire halls ana nave paraueS anu Hoiu outdoor mass meetings and put up posters and print circulars and newspapers To do so is one oi the inalienable rights guaranteed to them by the infamous capitalist system which they are burning to overthrow But in the process they must abstain from violence or even sedition Without observing
 law and order they will never have chance of making a successful revolution.
 Nor should they forget to calculate how many years must pass before they can display that united front" of which they talk so fondly The
 differences between existing parties or within them
 are nothing like so sharp and bitter those which
 keep apart the various organizations and agitatorS that think and talk of revolution. Who could hope
 to hold together the various shirts which arc being proposed are in use to signify resolve to make over or take the Government? Whai conference, or convention, could be got to agree upon set of principles, or of promises, to which
 all the factions would subscribe? The peaceful revo lution would be preceded for long time by fierce fighting between the factions. They might ever have to invoke the protection of capitalist police or mitamen to prevent such serious quarrels as
 were seen recently between the Socialists and the Communists in Madison Square Garden on the whole there is reason for peaceable citizens
 to call each other up at midnight and ask anxiously When is the revolution going to begin?"