Show NAIOLEON AND IMPERALISIVI 1 I Goldwln Smith In the Atlantic tells I of convci satlons he had with Lord I Russell In regard to Napoleon Russell emphatically repeated that there was emphaUcal I I something very evil In the eye ot Napoleon S I Na-poleon that it flashed at every allusion to the excitement of war as contrasted with the dullness ot I < ba Russell thought he had a sheer I lust ot W l1 I and especially of battles the emotlonB of which Napoleon seems lo have 1 1 owned were hgrceiiblo lo him I seems to us that would be naCural A I battle with him wa n great game and he played it with the same en I thUBliiHJU that he played chess We I believe that attaches to all the great I commanders Just before Gen Albert I I Sidney Johnston was assisted dying i from his horse he took a long survey t of the field of Shlloh and said to the II olllcer at his side They are checkmated check-mated The article in the Atlantic i say that Napoleon In his early days II employed his garrison leisure partly I in reading Roman history and Instead of being repelled he had been faacl I natcd by the presentation 6f the Roman Ro-man empire In Tacitus The result was I i t seen inrilib eagles in the Legion of Honor his political nomenclature and the general cost of his political Institutions Insti-tutions And the writer adds Per haps the Image of the Roman empire as a model for reproduction floated vaguely before his mind as it does before those of our Imperialists at the present day The writer forgets that Napoleon was not a Frenchman He was an Italian through and through He may have been the real original great Julius reincarnated Our modern Imperialists are not very dangerous Napoleon planned a gieat Imperialism In a little country On our side It is Ian I-an imperial country but little imperialism imper-ialism in the government In all the government of our country there ja just one Imperial feature that Is the majesty of the 13000000 voters and In the light of that the petty squalls about intended imperialism on the part of some politicians look very small and mean nHnn |