The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18

stances like a giant. Monopoly came down to this town at the hour of mid night and got an interview with Roose- welt at the White House and repre- sented to him that unless he would sus- pend the law and grant indulgence to the steel trust to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron company the panic would not be checked, but would run riot. What did he do? He tore the law into shreds and scattered 1t to the winds And this
 Is the man who says he is going to play hell with the "interestsl' Of course he will, and he did. but he won't have a
 chance.
 All our statesmen combined have not put so many men in the pillory of men dacity as Roosevelt. He has thrown the lie in the teeth of nearly every man who refused to kiss his toe, and this is the immaculate son of thunder who wrote the letter to Mrs. Storer. as noble a
 woman as ever trod American soil.
 We all know that Teddy is the dis coverer of original sin and that he is the inventor of original virtue with which to exercise it. but he is not the dscoverer of New Nationallsm." They had that in Rome 20 centuries ago, and it was invented by a man named Julius Caesar. His preachment was that the bucolic commonwealth of Cincinnatus and Camillus was out of date and fit only for the Rome preserved to us by Livy and Sallust.
 Rome had done splendidly under the old nationalism-they called 1t the commons wealth. It had ragged three triumphant wars against Carthage, which it uit- mately destroyed. Regulus was a noble Roman, victorious and finally unfortu- nate. Marcellus was splendid and Paulus
 Emillius was grand. Fabius Maximus preserved the country from the clutches of Hannibal and thus changed the civ ilization of the world. And Scipio Afri- canus. the greatest of the virtuous Ro- mans. overthrow Hannibal himself. It is true that Marius came along and got not only a third term, but seventh term, and then that greater scoundrel Sylla appeared and made the words
 Rome and turbulence synonymous, but these recognized tno coSmonwealth- The Senate yet existed and SS.' was still alive.
 But here came Caesar. the greatest
 man of profane history, gteater than lAlexander or Hannibal. or Napoleon,
 even when we look at material achieve
 ment, the fruit of victorious arms and the harvest of consummate policy. | Caesar brought in ''new nationalism. | It was grand. it was splendid; 1t was
 magnificent; but it was the incubation I of Caligua as well as of Trajan, of Dom-
 titan as well as of Marcus Aurelius, Of Commodus as well as of Julian, and what resulted? The civilization of Rome
 was e.tinguished Under the virtuous 1 commonwealth that first engaged
 against Carthage, Rome. had it so con tnued might have survived for ages longer the center of civilization, the light of the world So our republic if We
 continue the republic of Jefferson and | Of Cleveland
 | As for that, we are already more than | the glory that was Greece and the gran deur that was Rome. Physically we will not be enslaved, morally we shall re-
 main free; but economically we are, and
 for 40 years have been. slaves. When 1 Congress legslates that one interest shall have a reasonable profit, another and an unprotected interest, must be taxed to supply that profit. That is Caesarism, and if we are to take exam
 pie from the 90 months of Roosevelt In the White House that Is new national l ism. 4aE f.4
 What the devil is Roosevelt talking about The one octopus, the mother of them all, is the tariff If she Is not . | fakir of fakrs, let him come out and
 help us smash that-the rest is easy. 1 And now, my own loved south, to thee
 I turn. Surrender your raw materials to
 the slaughter to the end that he who owns as well as he who tils, our gen.
 erous soil may be happy under our gen
 ial sun.
 | As long as there is southern state for | the tariff we will remain slaves to mo- lnopoly-unless there shall come deliver 1 ance from the insurgents.