The age-herald., 1902-05-18
THE T1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.

Washington, May 17.-(special.)-I this day when an immense army of men of soil in the rich North are thrown out of employment because they presumed to ask for little more of the vast wealth their labor created, 1t Is a good time to turn from following after and ador- ing the rude lords of the dollars.
 Yet perhaps 1t is too late to turn. The stream of our national life is hurrying to it's Niagara. When the rude rich are, on account of their riches, exalted above our lawful rulers, and the one person, His Grace the Duke of Dollars is given more space in the public journals than is devoted to all the offices and affairs of the parliamentary government of four score millions of mankind; when even youth in the schools is taught concerning the glory of billionaires whose uncount- able wealth has been gathered by various forms of taxation and robbery from the poor, and who build libraries and col leges for their own glorificatlon, suffering the libraries to be in part filled with free books that prostitute the virtues of the young, and the colleges in part with teachers who teach blasphemy and all manner of ungodiness; when the people doff their caps and bend their knees to all comparative grades of riches, from the villager with his five thousand up the long line to him whose daily income is equal to the wages Of fifty thousand Workingmen; when the question concern ing every man is not whether he is vir- tuous, good, or honest, but Is. how much money is he worth, and when even the babies of the country are given toys shaped as dollar -marks-when a nation reaches these conditions, as our nation has in the fullest measure, then we have to wait only little while for the crack and roar of doom!
 Our people stand now in a position identical with that occupied by temporal Rome just before the beginning of it's fall; and, when Rome fell--the world. When the glory of the Roman Republic faded in the debauchery and wild orgies of the emperors who arose after the mighty Julius fell, then, as seen by the lights we now have, the days between de- bauchery and destruction might have been counted. So long as the Romans were poor Rome was great. The will of Julius Caesar gave them their first taste of luxury, created their first thirst for riches; for under the terms of that i'm perial will every individual man, woman and child received a sum of about twen- ty dollars of our money, which in that primitive age of public virtue amounted to a fortune, for not more than one mid dle-aged Roman in ten thousand outside of the aristocraey had in all his life seen twenty dollars.
 That newborn craving for luxury drove pillage the world to satisfy the Romans The end we all know, and knowing can perceive the doom of our own country though by different means. While the Ro- man emperors enriched themselves by the tyranny of imperialism over conquered peoples, our despots of the dollars are plundering their own people by various schemes of taxation, chief of which arc what we call Dingleyism and trusts. The end of this any student of events may for himself forecast.
 The killing of poor child by a great noblemans chariot precipitated the French revolution. Almost every day a child of the poor is killed by the horse less carriage of some rich man in the chief city of our country
 When the starving peasants of France