The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-06


cipal, state, or national that has suffer
ed great fall has known at least one
Judas Iscariot. Behold little Athens
In her supremacy, the greatest naval
power of the then known world, topple
under the selfish treachery of the hero
of Marathon, behold her fall under the
treason of the much loved and much
trusted Alcibiades. Not only is this
true of Athens, but reviewing ancient
Greek and Roman history what pic
ture do we see of trembling govern
ments battling with the traitor.
These melefactors however were not
biest by the sure repose that bound the
later day Judas to happiness. Their
treason was in fashion open, and was
usually avenged, but watch the move,
ments of financial Judas. Here we
behold the work of governmental des-
truction begun on new basis. The
same spirit is utilized though covered
up and draped over with custom and
speculation on one side, and ignorant
| invertebrates on the other.
The fall of at least four nations of
antiquity was precipitated by this type
of Judas. When the work of one man
or of body of men has wrought a
nations ruin, what shall it be called F.?
The type of men who ruin the peace
and prosperity Of a country by skill
fully organized and treacherously legal
lied fraud are not fond of the name of
traitor.
What does history tell US of Egypt,
Persia, Babylon and Rome? At the
time of the fall of Egypt, five per cent
of the people owned all the wealth, the
rest of them were starved to death.
When Persia went down one per cent
of the population owned the whole
land. The fall of Babylon came amid
just such state of affairs, and Rome
fell with eighteen hundred men owning
the then known world.
But did these people pose as enemies
to the government? On the contrary |
they held themselves up presuming to
be the foundation on which it stood, |
and they watched the government
groan and die with the self righteous
ness of the old time Pharisee. An
other case of sacrificed principle for
self gain.
Comprehending the fate of these
governments can we fail to see that we
as a nation are moving along the same
line of action as did those powers of
old? What was true of them was true
of France at the time of the great
revolution of 1889, and what was true
of France will be true of the United
States unless Judas Iscariot is obliter-
ated from the land.
We stand today the peer of any PEG.
pie and in many respects the foremost
nation of the world. In wealth and
material, progress we have neither an
equal nor near neighbor In produce.
manufacture and invention we are
able to cope with any power. The
standard of our national government is
the most eleVating in the world and
shall it be polluted aud drawn down
from its place of honor by generation
after generation of INSCRIPTIONS sub
lects? The very fact that we are the
nation in the world. and
that any conner to our shores is eligible
in the race for wealth, is terrible
and withstood by few. and
this temptation brings Judas Iscariot
out in his true light.
BY Judas Iscariot one does not mean
either the type of Herr Most or of
Benedict Arnold. The one is and the
other was a menace to the government, ,
but the one is a bold open faced anar
chist and the, other was traitor stunr
BY a just reprimand and seeking by ,
treason, sweet revenge for what he )
supposed to be insulted dignity. Both
,ypes are to be feared but not to the ,
'xtent of the Iscariot type who betray :
government for gold and then, Judas .
Ike, dream that somehow, by some .
act it may save itself. !
Ever since the time of Christ, the a
dges of humanity's conscience have il
'een steadily dulled until now under f
he cloak of the financier or politician Q
Judas Iscariot is respected mar. i
someone has said that ever since the n
reed for gold sold the Christ and f
Allied for his garments, it has cruel n
ed every form of virtue between i
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