Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-01-18

up plucked great, ripe apple fro
boueh. Surely it wa> most beal
tiful frut Perfectly rounded. II
GLOSSY red wa, heightened by tn
sun, ray, falling on it. and abou
the stem there was no sign of dis
ease But when my knife had cut 1t
shining peel and its bruised ant
worm eaten interior lay before me
| asked myself the question. Wher,
Is the substance
How many people, If their innei
lives were known are but q show
How many natures. like the apple,
present to the world fair exterior,
but whose inner government i, cor
rupt and ON the verge of ruin. Ma
ton, like Rome, Greece. Babylon
and others rose, reached their highest
power and fell because they lacked
unity. the virtue and patriotism that
go to make up good government;
Grecian history j, interesting but
disappointing and sad From the
very first Hella, va, divided into two
part, Athens and Sparta. the one
Ionic. civil and democratic the other
Doric, military and aristocratic The
stOlid and naughty Spartan, always
believed in q government @: the few.
but Athenian love of individual free
dom led them to overthrow the mon
archy and A. carly a. so b. &. We
find them banishing the tyraut Pi>a,-
tratus. Then Athen, entered upon
her career a. a republic. under which
she reached the greatest power. At
the head of a great confederacy her
territory embraced Thrace and the
Ionic elite, Of culture in Asia Minor
and her intelligence extending to the
Hellespont, she controlled the extern
sive trade of Poutu,.
Sparta Wa, regarded a, the leader
of the aristocratic elite, of the Pelo-
ponnesures and Spartan> had no
equal in battle; but it was Athens a,
a republic that inspired Greece to
withstand and oeteat the Persians.
Her sturdy soldiers, though fewer in
number than the Pertains. had all the
superior intellect of a patriotic peo-
pie undOr pure government, aud not
corrupted by vice and excessive
wealth With such force she fought
the barbarians aud conquered them.
But her very success proved her
ruin. Sparta, ever Jealous, was new
er more so, since she had lost her
right as military leader. Pericles.
looking ahead, saw that wal must en-
sue and admOnished his countrymen
to prepare for it. The Peloppones-
sian contest left Athens destitute the
confidence of her great men destroy
ed, and her leadership as a republic
broken forever. Spartan institutions
were established in its stead.
Thus Greece was never a nation
nor were her people ever united.
With them the strength of a nation
lay in community of not more than
ten thousand inhabitants. The only
time they ever did approach a unit,
was when they joined forces to fight
the freedom-giving battles of Mara
thOn and Salamis. When foreign
dangers were removed they straight
way fell to quarreling among them
selves again and prepared the way for
Phillip Of Macedon to obtain control
IF all Greece.
Looking to the north. We see ma
ion the story of whose existence is
ciled in obscurity for centuries and
then bursts suddenly forth in grand
eur. After reign of comparatively
few years, during which her territory
embraced all the wealth of the orient
she sank again into oblivion under
Phillip. Macedonia extended her
power over Greece as result of the
battle Of Chaeronea. and her Iegions
marching under the standard of AL
cxander conquered the region from
Africa to the Indus.
Little wonder the seryile Asiatics
believed the conqueror was descended
tom the gods. History makes him