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Germany is seized with Bolshevism. ?Suddenly on the imperial fleet, in many imperial cities, on the principal impe? rial buildings, you see that symbol of ' human catastrophe, of moral irrespon? sibility, of unrestraint, of lust idealized --THE RED FLAG. Th_ people announce the arrival of the "Social Republic" and call what they have done a bloodless, friendly revolu? tion; but people never know what they have done until afterward. They do not know whether they are morally and politically equal to the responsibilities of a revolution until they have tried, and then, if they are not, it is tragically too lute. What now is taking place in Germany is so like the Russian revolution at a corresponding stage of development as to ha absolutely unoriginal. That would be characteristically German, or, if you prefer, characteristic of German effi? ciency, which consists in a certain heavy genius for imitation and development. In Germany, as in Russia, the revo? lution actually began among idle sailors on idle warships. Everything that has happened since, including the circum? stances surrounding the abdication of the Kaiser, has been patterned upon the event in Russia. There is some fighting in the streets, It is admitted, but not much?no more than was neces? sary to make everybody understand that the people were in control because the military had come over to their side. Fatal delusion ! There are, as in Russia, Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils. They ultimately decide everything. They control the new government and give it orders. One of the first things they do is to seize con? trol of news agencies. Thus, it is the Wolff News Agency, formerly inspired by the German autocracy, that now issues to the world the semi-official news of the German revolution. It seems always necessary for the revolutionists to censor news of their own activities. There is, as in Russia, the same stress? ing of the notes of fraternity and equal? ity, the same pride in the bloodlessness of the business of putting proletarians in tho place of kings, and the same strange and menacing emphasis upon the word bourgeoisie, meaning the middle classes who own most of the property. There is the same na?ve representation as to the sentimental manner in which the soldiers, and sailors and people agree and understand each other, and the same conservative demand that order shall be maintained. You would think it a conservative revolution; but all revolutions seem con~ servative in the beginning, because peo? ple are for a Utile while afraid of tho feeling of power and intend to exercise it cautiously. They touch gingerly and with, pangs of superstitious awe the weapons and symbol?; of authority. It was so in Russia. Then very rapidly it was perceived ?hat there was no power equal to that ?if a machine gun mounted on a motor iorry, and the rest is an unfinished story of rule by massacre and murder, the greatest demagogue being he who can by simple rhetoric ease the conscience of an armed soldier out of work already resolved to take anything in sight, but preferring generally to take it on some pretext of political or moral right. It may be even so in Germany. No one can tell what may not happen under the RED FLAG. Beeiden, there ia more in common emotionally and : between