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years var they G".'r,y"l Tic ~ su.ni.
DcmDc9ncy. ana SET OYER ne COUNTRY Oil.
garci!ical vul"rs wLo murdered Lvnarsts
Of the best citizens. The rcrp.c lott heart
and finally submitted 70 philip n Mace
don; 80 there was no mare Democracy in
Greece, and we must lCok mex; 10 Rome.
There the two parties were called Intri-
clans and PlcbeiaHS, but IL WIZ the samc
fight; In fact, IT has generally been the
came fign'. tnO9c VINO want more power
against thOSc who want more freedom.
The DcrnOcrats Of Rome gained rapidly til
the long wars with Carthage and Olhcr
powers, exhausted them; AMI here wc
notice u truth common " oil nations
prolonged vars are nearly always favor
able % tho uristocrncy AZ the whiriing
wlnd heaps up the fallen leaves, so 90 war
and high taxes heap up wealth in great
masses; and whore wealth Il concentrated
IN "a few hhnds, democratic liberty cannot
long endure. Just before the Punic wars
began. IL was shown that middle Italy
was divided into an immense number n
email farms. TwO centuries later It was
in vast chtutcs, the property Df Iatricians
who lived in boundlcss luxury ia the
cities.
TO arrest this destructive tendency the
tribuncs u the people secured hcycral
avs; but all were cyaded At length one
TibcFlus Gracious insisted on radical
measures. especially that the remaining
public land should be divided among the
people Instead u "grantcdn 10 great Patri.
clans Thc nristOcrats raised II convenient
riot in n public meeting and the friends ~
Gracious were driven; he fed toward the
temple Of Jupiter, but fell over n bench,
when one Of tic other party assaiIcd him
% he tried to rise and beat ont his brains
with Il stool. His younger brother Calns,
some years later, nit, mptcd 10 revive the
law by n more cautious prOcccdiuV, Int
the power Of the ~nristocTatg was nos; abb
solute; CaiuB and his servant we're driven
into the "Gravc Of the Fuuics. y where
both were found dead. The finder cut OH
the head Of Chius, and was rewarded by
the Patricinns win seventeen ounces u
gold. After this came many connections,
q horrible civil war and the establishment
Of an empire and wc hear no more u
democrats in Rome.
After Augustus Caesar destroyed tho
last Of the popular opposition, liberty in
Europe VAS In eclipse for 1900 years.
Then they began TO h2ht about their re-
ligioDs, and In the struggle the people re.
gained q few natural rights. England
bad retained more liberty than any other
country, and early In tho Seventeenth cen !
.ury the word ',dernocratn again began