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

of the fabric governmental are being undermined.
Prior to the year 1898 this government was a
republic pure and simple. Its foundations were laid
in principle, and not in power. It was not an empire
in any sense of the word, for the foundations of an
empire are laid in power, and not in principle. It
was built upon that everlasting rock that right
makes might. Against this the coming of floods and
the blowing and beating of winds are alike
powerless, for it standeth sure and falleth not
forever. But empires, on the other hand, are built
upon that sinking sand that might makes right.
Against these the floods come, and the winds blow
and beat, and they fall, and great is the fall thereof.
To-day this nation is in danger of abandoning
the rock and settling upon the sand. The love of
power, so prone to the human breast, is smothering
priceless, eternal principle. From being a
government of the people, by the people, and for
the people, it is being rapidly transformed into a
government of some of the people, by a few of the
people, for all the people. This is imperialism as
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