The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

upon the people of the Roman republic has come
upon the people of the republic of the United
States. In both cases the game of the despoliation
of nations and peoples has opened with a war
“solely in the cause of humanity.” In the former
instance, the Romans did declare the people of the
small Greek republics free and independent. The
United States has not yet even done this much. The
republics of Greece never became free. The “war
for humanity” never gave them their liberty. They
soon found, and that to their bitter disappointment,
that they had only exchanged masters, and that the
little finger of Rome was thicker than the loins of
Philip of Macedon, and that if the king had
chastised them with whips, the republic chastised
them with scorpions. They soon found to their
intense sorrow that in the “war for humanity” there
had been a transfer made, and that they had been
the subject of barter. It did not take them long to
discover that they had only acquired a slavery more
abject and complete than that which they had
endured under their previous ruler. It was as much
more complete as Rome was more powerful than
Macedon.
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