Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1907-01-24

living IN nome OF MS own, WITH
food and clothing in plenty, with do.
nestle happiness the master of his
labor, and in the enjoyment of his
political franchise. to the ragged,
half starved Roman slave. robbed of
his political rights, trampled upon by
a tyrannical master, spurned and
spat upon by all and thrown into the
Ampitheatre to feed the ravenous
beasts and his masters desire for
enjoyment. Compare. say, such
conditions existing toward the labor
ing classes. and then can you say
that the United States is following
in the footsteps of ancient Rome?
No, one policy leads to prosperity.
the other to ruin and destruction.
The United States shows another
symptom which points to her future
prosperity. the accumulation of
wealth in her own territories. Her
mercantile wealth cannot threaten
her while it remains so entirely un-
der the beni IN constraint of religion.
Such wealth beauties society and
advances her great philanthropical
enterprises. This wealth has delv-
cred the oppressed and saved the
Republic, aud has filled our counties
and cities with schools of learning,
galleries of art, halls of justice and
temples of piety. Not few of our
millionaires have made and are still
making liberal and beniicent use Of
their wealth. In America the max
ers of fortune are workers, not men
who rely upon the labor of others,
but on their own toll. and they sell
dom spend in luxury what they have
made by toll and thrift. Such was
not the case in Rome. The whole
wealth of the empire was in the
hands of few and was spent. only
in luxury, not for improvements.
The rich were extremely wealthy and
there was no middle class. The poor
were bound a. slaves. Such condi-
tons can never be possible in the
''land Of the free. The President
is now advocating an inheritance tax
upon the wealth of the rich and such
a tax bids iair to become a law. This
gives to the people control over the
the money of its millionaires
As the security of refinement,
wealth i the feeder Of all those arts
that enable and boautity life. The
Roman government spent vast wealth
in erecting great arches and columns
a. memorials Of her Emperors; the
United State, spends her money fol
the good of her people Rome rev
elled in luxury. the United States IN
comfort. The moral conscience Of
the Roman was blunt, and 50 unat-
tected By wrong as to leave evils un-
punished the American moral con-
science is so acute as to expose the
slightest wrong,
Rome maintained such privilege,
Is to create men whose god was
money. By her system of education
md instruction in morals the United |
States creates men whose aim, pur-
'ose and exertions inspire honesty,
ruthfulness and patriotism in the
hearts of all people.
The strength of our Republic rests
N an invisible and ideal base and is
developed out of mental and moral
esources; the strength of the Roman
empire rested on a corrupt and decay
ID foundation and was developed out
# the brute force of her arms.
Little Greece resisted the food of |
Persian arms and at last conquered |
he East because there was no vitality |
more courage, genius, enthusiasm
n her people than in the swarming
nyriads which the bulk of the Persian
empire enclosed. Rome, too, rose
o power by the dcspotlc sway of
haracter, not legions. When Rome
ell she had more troops and fortified
ions than in the height of her sup
,remacy. But she lost her real and