Never in our history did a public man face a greater temptation than he did after his two years of travel; everything in the country seemed to have turned conservative, and the money-power, frightened by Roosevelt, was ready to throw itself into his arms. What he did was to take his stand upon the great issue over which the battle of the next six years will be fought out—the nationalisation of the railroads; and in doing it he placed his name upon the roll of our statesmen. THE TYPE. CHATTEL SLAVERY. WAGE SLAVERY (1846–1863.) (1893–1914.) The Conservative Daniel Webster. Grover Cleveland Reformer The Unwilling Prophet John C. Calhoun Marcus A. Hanna The Great Compromiser Henry Clay Theodore Roosevelt The Timid Conservative Edward Everett. Alton B. Parker. The Editor of Horace Greeley. Arthur Brisbane Radicalism The Statesman of Charles Sumner. Wm. J. Bryan. Radicalism The Politician of Wm. H. Seward. Robt. M. LaFollette. Radicalism The Agitator of the Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Eugene V. Debs. Revolt The Orator of the Wendell Phillips. Geo. D. Herron. Revolt The Martyr of the John Brown. Charles H. Moyer ( ?). Revolt The Voice of the Victim Frederick Douglass. Jack London. The Compromising Stephen A. Douglas. John C. Spooner. Reactionist The Aggressive Jefferson Davis. Nelson W. Aldrich. Reactionist The Organiser of Wm. Lownds Yancey. David M. Parry. Reaction The Last Figurehead James Buchanan (1856). William H. Taft (1908). The Untried Hope Abraham Lincoln (1860). Wm. Randolph Hearst (1912). A couple of years ago I was sketching out my comparison of the Civil War crisis and our own, in conversation with an English gentleman, who asked me to make him a table showing the parallel between the men of the two periods. This table was afterwards published in the _Independent_, with an explanatory letter, (in the course of which I pointed out that one must not take it too literally, or look for a resemblance in external details).[7] Footnote 7: See table on page 199. In the course of its editorial comment, the _Independent_ suggested another parallel, that between “The Jungle” and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”; and then it went on to express its perplexity at my venturing to compare Hearst with Lincoln.