The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-19

the revenues of the new world tina
they no longer had need to call on tn
representatives of their subjects TO
funds but had amne means to pro
vide an army which erawed the peo
fple and finally mad The Spanish mon
archy absolute.
"When the French people at the tim
of their revolution summoned Thu
states general, after a period of nearly
1.-TWO centuries of absolute monarchy
and attempted to step at once into {
republic, of course they failed and land
cd in new and worse despotism thar
that which they threw off. In our owl
day we have seen like result in Rus
sia. There is a step between absolutism
and a republic which cannot be avoid
ed in the experience of people jour
neying toward popular sovereignty
Russia, with all the examples of the
free nations before her, is under des-
potism more despotic than ever was
administered by car. Russia and
| France, failing to reach at a single
bound the form of government they
sought, fell back into Reorganization
which is always the opportunity for the
despot.
"There is certain amount of ground
for faith in progress in the fact, that
apparently there could have been no
other means to break the despotic hold
of the Bourbons in France so that she
might finally emerge after the chasten-
ing experiences of sinking from world
glory to humiliating defeat under the
empire of Napoleon; she emerged free,
a republic, and with strength of char
acter and power of resistance which
has restored her toa true glory in the
estimation of the world which no ma
ton ever outranked In her example
there is hope for stricken Russia. Evil
IDENTIFY she reached an impasse in her
progress which threw her people back
on the first principles of development.
Lacking the advance of France in the
late days of the 18th century, she will
lack her speed of recovery. But mod
ern science is ON her side if she will
but use it, Who now can say what
service to progress Lenine and Trot-
sky may not be performing when he
remembers the three furies Of the
French revolution?
Something Gained from Nations Lost.
Always before we decide too hastily
that the decline of the nations of an
tiquity constitute a total loss, it is
we'll to examine what was destroyed
and what was saved The ancient civ
ilizations which flourished along the
Nile and in the valleys of the Tigris |
and Euphrates ran their courses. They !
performed their tasks and went the /
way of all the earth. Modern scholar
ship is revealing to us, year by year,
the completeness of their organization I
and the high attainments of their civ 1
li2ation. They were not destroyed in
4 day but grew up, hourished for a
time and, gradually, as their work was
aiken up by the Greek. Babylon and
rhebes, passed into obscurity. A
stronger took their place.
Through the long generations that
marked the decay OF Greece, after the
Macedonia subjugation, the real
trength of that most wonderful peo-
ne itilldtiltus itlJdltlN w W tb-bbN III
he priceless treasure of her arts. the
of her literature, the death.
ess eloQuence OF her orators, the wis
ON of her statesmen and the inspired
insight of her philosophers. The great
esson of the supremacy of the state
nd the art of government is SO much
ers, that il is impossible to discuss the ,
orms and methods of government .
rithout drawing from the Greek for
he very nomenclature with which to
xpress our thoughts
when the scepter passed from the
lcropolis to the forum it meant that
len had progressed to that point,
here it was necessary for the advance
I civilization. that they should come
0 realization OF the law That Is the
lpreme meaning of Rome. For Zen
lries she imposed the rule Of order
nder law, often harsh and cruel, vet
18th such meaning of restraint. that
oman citizenship was respected and
,verenced at home, and held in such |
we abroad, that in the DAYS of Saint
aul he had but to assert It, to con.
,und his prosecutors, and fill them with
re dread of that swift and unerrina
lnishment. which befell those who
'eated with any indignity repre-
.ntative of that empire which ruled
le EARTH making a peace longer than
Is ever since blessed mankind, known
the Pax Romanum When under
Ie march of her legions the people
ong the Jordan and at Jerusalem lost
nd nd 10, n
altered throughout sthe earth the
X Of the covenant and the seven
onged candlestick passed from the
lowledge OF man, but the Old Tesla.
emit remained, rearing multitudes OF
mples more magnificent than that
hich fell to a plundering and alien
nqueror.
"The forces of the Roman empire be-
me set. Their Elasticity ceased. They
psed into a condition where they
ade no progress. The power from n
thin having been exhausted, the
ly hope lay in an infusion OF a pow
from without. That came with what
S been styled the barbarian inyasions,
ermittent, closing down in darkness
first but finally rousing Europe TO a
W birth which ushered in the modern
Rod of history. II
Nowhere did the shock Of these con-
ued invasions beat more steadily
IN around the shores Of the North
j. Parts Of Britain and northern
lnce, which had been under the disci-
ne of Roman law. bear to this day
names made by their invaders and
Iquerors. 1t was there that free in
buttons developed according to the