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Extract from American People's Money. In reading the following from Fronde's Caesar (p. 6), we seem to have before us an almost exact picture of our own times. •• ‘lt was an age of material progress and material civilization: an age of civil liberty and intellectual culture: an age of pamphlets and epigrams, of salons and dinnerparties, -f senatorial majorities and electoral corruption. The highest offices of state were open, in theory, to the meanest citizen: they were confined, in fact, to those who had the longest purses, or the most ready use. of the tongue on popular platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions of yvealth. The struggles between plebeians and patricians for equality of privilege were over, and a new division had been formed between the party of property and a party who desired a change in the structure of society. 'The free cultivators were .disappearing < from the soil. Italy was being absorbed into vast estates, held by a/few favored families and cultivated by slaves, while the old agricultural population was, driven off the land and was crowded into towns. The rich were extravagant, for life had ceased to have practical interest, except for its material pleasures; the occupation of the higher classes was to obtain money without labor and spend it in idle enjoyment. Patriotism survived on the'lips, but patriotism meant the ascendancy of the party which would maintain the existing order of things, or (the party which) would overthrow it for a more equal distribution of the good things which alone were valued. Religion, once the foundation of the laws and rule of persona! conduct, had subsided into opinion. The educated in their hearts disbelived it. Temples were still built with increasing splendor: the established forms were scrupulously observed. Public men spoke conventionally of Providence, that they might throw, on their opponents the odium of impiety; but of genuine belief that life had any serious meaning, there was none remaining Geyond the circle of the silent, patient, ignorant multitude. The whole spiritual atmosphere was saturated with cant—cant moral, cant political, cant religious; an affectation of high principle which >•‘ ■ Z ■ * e>

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I I ii A i F ll r - 1 : r AF 1 f ffl - a t 1 Wil' wMl—Mai B.Ma.'w, w ' • | J t John Bull: ~ Get off the planet, you hold fraud. You were 8 g conceived in a blunder and your existence is a reproach to the W ? money-power of the world. Get hout! - JRothschilds:2jGei away wit you! Der is no God but Mammon, <C £ and John and me are his prophets. Here, take'your ‘‘Teclara- 9 » tion of Independence mit you. All a lot of lies.”

' ’ ' • - ; * ; I Extract from American People’s Money. J had ceased to touch the conduct, and flowed on in an J increasing volume of insincere and unreal speech; '* * “ ‘The Romans ceased to believe, and in losing their ! faith they became as steel becomes when it is demag- j netized, the spiritual quality was gone out of them, ( and the high society of Rome itself became a society J of powerful animals with an enormous appetite for pleasure. Wealth poured in more and more, and lux- ! iiry grew more unbounded. Palaces sprang up in the 1 city, castles in the country, villas at pleasant places i by the sea, and parks and fish ponds, and game pre- ‘ serves and gardens, and vast retinues of servants. When natural pleasures had been indulged in to sati- ' ety, pleasures which were against nature were im- < ported from the Easlj to stimulate the exhausted J appetite. To makq money—money by any means, lawful or unlawful—became the universal passion. * * “ ‘Moral habits are all sufficient while they last; but ’ with rude, strong natures they are but chains which < hold the passions/prisoners. Let the chain break, and the released brute is, but the more powerful for evil from the force which his constitution was inherited. ( Money! Theory was still Money!. Money was the one thought from-the highest senator to the poorest ! wretch who sold his vote in the Comita. For money < judges gave unjust decrees and juries gave corrupt ( verdicts. Governors held their provinces for one, two ] or three years; they went out bankrupt from extrav- i agance, they returned with millions for fresh riot. To J obtain a province was the first ambition of a Roman I noble. The road to it lay through the praetorship and J the consulship; these offices became, therefore, the ■ • prizes of the State, and being in the gift of the people • they were sought after by means which demoralized J alike the givers and the receivers. The elections I were managed by clubs ond coteries, and, except on J occasions of national danger or political excitement * those who spent most freely were most certain of sue- - cess.’ < « *

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