The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-16

But had not the French become the Roman of his time and the elder brother of the race? Nor were the Ital- fans, the Dutch, the Belgians and the Germans in the Empire ashamed to own allegiance to the master of Kings, and no revolution, not even riot, threatened his authority anywhere.
 While the lands incorporated in the Empire remained quiet discontent rose and spread among the people of the allied states, which Napoleon had sub jugated without annexing. Their Na- tional pride had been outraged by him, and he had not consoled or diverted them with the imperial pride of French citizenship, but had left them under the misrule of Princess, whom he had brought Into contempt and who grow e1ed at his feet. His own subjects gave him no trouble, but the misgoverned sub bjects of his vassals aroused against him the spirit of patriotism.
 Tn the days when kings and grand dukes were taking orders like field hands from their overseer at Paris, when the Prussian monarch was limiting his army to the number specified and dismissing patriot ministers, when the Austrian Em- peror was giving his daughter in marriage to the conqueror, booksellers like John Palm, gooseherds like Gneisenau, cow herds like Scharnhorst, tavern keepers ike An0reaS ftOIeT, SlInpic pouiS iihV eiiS maid of Saragossa were lifting from the dust the standards of their countries. And if called to face the firing squad, they died in tho spirit of calm rejoicing ex- pressed by the Tyrolean Hofer when he said: "I set out upon my journey to God"
 The Fatal Change
 Tn the course of the long struggle Ma poleon had changed his base. He was ct fnO fnv o a crown. He was not pulling down thrones but setting them up. Kings had become his allies and the people had fallen away from him. He was fighting for the past not for the future. He was looking backward. not forward. and his moral retreat began before his military retreat.
 He himself once computed that the moral force in war is as three in one in comparison with the physical. thus matn' ematically verifying Shakespeare's line
 Thrice is he armed that hath his guar rel just"
 By that measure Napoleon lost two thirds of his strength when he ceased tt be the champion of freedom and progress and became an invader, seeking conQuests As the moral force passed from his rank into the ranks of the enemy, he substituted batteries for 1t, his infantry having los It's old time dash. His soldiers had takeI Italy with their bare hands. but Wagran was distinctly an artillery success. "Th' poorer the troops" he said, "the more ar tilelry they need" Now he must vii with lead where once he won with hearts and must hurl cannon balls at the lines ol the foe which in other times he hac pierced with bayonets. As long as his men thought they were battling for I'D erty, they laughed at death, and woult rather fight than eat. But now drum head courtmartials had become a necessit, to keep them from shirking or runnint away.
 He had said years before, 'T am callet to renovate the social world; at least think so, and this confidence insures m! success When he parted with that pur pose victory forsook his standards. Whil he fought for the people against mon archs while he fought for his countr, against invaders. his sword was invincible as when, with few ragged republicans he rspeiled army after army of Austrian