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his sympathies were not with his fell or sufferers, hut with such 
ruling class as still exists. He said, in about the tone of a "100$" 
American telling that there was plenty of rope with which to deal 
with strikers , that they had taken out the window panes of museum 
wind&ws overlooking If proposed demonstration and had mounted m ch- 
ine ^uns in then, I said nothing "because I did not have German 
enough at my command. .And yet Keissler seems a kindly scholarly 
man — it was a case of the educated reacting according to their 
training. 1 did not go home early, and thank heaven the machine 
guns were not used. The Wieners are so patient under their suf- 
ferings. I saw the "broken windows of a big restaurant the people 
had smashed during a bread riot in the winter, Dr. Z. pointed it 
out the evening w© went to the botanical garden . It is only the 
foreigners here that have money, they can have everything they 
want. If the starving peeple did attack the big hotels with their 
rich foreign guests the world might wake up and realise that mm 
do not starve peaceably. The trouble is these Wieners do starve 
peaceably. The ruling class is terribly afraid of Bolshvism. If 
Austria, too desperate to care, showed symptoms of going Bol schvik 
they might remove some of the tariffs that make it impossible for 
this crippled country to obtain food. The suffrage struggle taught 
me that people are not compelled to action by sense of justice, as 
I used to believe , but only by being made so uncomfortable tha£ t 
they would act as a choice of evils. The drawback is that almost 
nobody can think how t® make the rulers miserable without blood- 
shed. The oppressed endure until they are desperate and then go 
to killing. It is only a genius lik» Alice Paul that can plan 
and carry on a bloodless warfare. And she never wanted men to 
join our struggle (except by giving money and supporting us in 
the press) because men are so likely to resort to bloodshed. 
