Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1912 — Is the Same Old World. [ARTICLE]

Is the Same Old World.

In reviewing Professor Frank Frost Abbott’s new book. “The Common People of Ancient Rome,” a critic says: “It should be something of a corrective to modern conceit to note how little we have advanced since paternalism first became dominant in Rome and since the Roman government prided itself on opening public baths and washhouses for the people. Los Angeles is doing that same thing now and lauds herself as a pioneer in civilization because of ft. Diocletian denounced the rich and their luxuries, attributed to them the high prices of necessaries, In language almost indentlcal with a radical newspaper of today. Plautus tells us of the trusts that were founded to control prices and the trust problem-Avas as much a reality in ancient Rome a* it is today?’