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purpose. Besides standing armies
are dangerous. They are a men
ace to the peace and liberty of the
nation they are ostensibly intended
to protect. Regular military of.
ficers are not ambitious, but are
generally unscrupulous when op-
portunity for imposition presents
itself; besides such officers seldom
have any more respect for civil
government than they are forced
to recognize. Now and then a
man becomes renowned for some
heroic act in the army or navy.
Such men are ge orally offered
presidential nominations simply
for their heroism and without any
regard for the principles they en-
tertain. This is hero worship.
There are other ways of reward
ing heroism than by placing men
in high civil positions that they
are not competent to fill. Hero
worship, supported by wealthy
aristoracy, converted the Roman
republic into an empire. The peo-
pie lost sight of the fundamental
principles of republican govern
ment and became the worshipers
of man, or the hero, regardless of
the principles he entertained.
Thoughtless and idle aristocrats
who want large standing armies
have no regard for principle. 1t
is the man they want, probably an
ambitious hero, man who has
never truly expressed his political
sentiments.
| The arts Of imperialism have
been played with many times be.
fore and many people have been
grossly deceived thereby. Napol
con Bonaparte made himself EN-.
peror of France while glorifying
the republic. AT his Coronation
in the Church of the "Invalides,
he made the following speech:
Commanders, officers, legeion
aries, citizens, soldiers! Swear
upon your honor to devote your
selves to the service of the Empire
to the preservation of the integri
ty of the French territory, to The
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OF THE EMPEROR, OF THE LAWS OIL
THE RErUBLlC,
and Of tho property whleh they
ihave made aaered-in short, sweal
to conquer with al your nigh
in maintaining hbaay and e}uaIi
ty, which are the basis 0! I'll Oul
institutions"
Here we find a singular mixture
of republicanism and imperialism
very similar to the acts and decla
rations Of McKinley's adminlstra
ton. For several years prior to hi'
coronation, Bonaparte had made
the people of France believe tina
he was trying to establish re
public; and at his coro alton SPOKE
, of maintaining "the laws of thu
, republic" and ''liberty and equali
, ty," while at the same time, hi
, efforts, from the first, were to es
tablish an empire with himself a
the head. IL other words, tn,
) people we're so blind by the art
3 of imperialism and sentimental
hero worship that, on the coming
of the evening after the corona
, ton of Bonsparte, they illuminat
: ed the heavens in constant blaz
r with rockets in honor of the en-
+ thronement of an anomaly know
as a republican king. For tim
$ after that the Emperor was t.
: France what Hamiltonian Presi
| dent desires to be to the Unite,
D States.
$ Augustus Caesar pretended t.
r have great respect for the constitu
q ton Of the Roman republic Will
e he was destroying it. He assum
ed the mask of hypocracy, as mel
t have before and since his day
In destroying the Roman constitu
}. ton he was its worst enemy il
e disguise. But he afterward claim
: ed to be the father of the Romal
n empire. He artfnlly framed
: system of imperial authority Will
d exhibiting to the people an imag
= of civil liberty, and to the arm,
+ an image of civil government
S He assumed that the people wer
G governed by a name, or the hero
i regardless of principle, and tina
y people would submit to SLAYER
g provided they were respectfull
o assured by the powers that rule
: that they still enjoyed their FREE
l. dom.
n Imperialism coupled with
i Bretorian army is so stro 6 !
y France that the republic at time
|. totters and is about to fall. He
d army stands, as all great standi
y armies do, for brute force and a.