Unemployment and the Fall of Rome
In some of our cities large armies of unemployed men are demanding work, and in some instances they stipulate that the wages shall be $3.00 a day. In one or two instances, public-spirited citizens have contributed sums ranging from $1,000 down, to provide employment to some of these discontented men. The clamors for work from the governmental authorities which are becoming so pronounced throughout the world are furnishing a very accurate parallel to what is furnished in the history of Rome during her declining days. Read that history, read the news of the day, and note the almost complete identity of conditions. Rome was wholly and permanently dominant only in a comparatively small part of the world around the Mediterranean, and when these clamors arose among her populace, she withstood them for a while, and finally went down. Have you seriously considered the meaning of these conditions as they are appearing in all parts of the world?