. European history : an outline of its development. ct use of the army The , 1/ieGracchi,Alarius, andSulla(Epochs) ;Mommsen,Bk. IV.,Chaps. III.;Ihne, , and VI.;Plutarch,Life of Tibe-rius and ofCaiusGracchus. The purposeof Tiberius,133 The ,Vol. III., ^2, 356. 84 TJie Empire Completed [§78 Plans ofCaius Grac-chus, 123 to decide political rivalries in Rome. The cause of reform,however, was taken up ten years later by his brother, CaiusGracchus, whose plans were much more extensive and far-reaching. Th
. European history : an outline of its development. ct use of the army The , 1/ieGracchi,Alarius, andSulla(Epochs) ;Mommsen,Bk. IV.,Chaps. III.;Ihne, , and VI.;Plutarch,Life of Tibe-rius and ofCaiusGracchus. The purposeof Tiberius,133 The ,Vol. III., ^2, 356. 84 TJie Empire Completed [§78 Plans ofCaius Grac-chus, 123 to decide political rivalries in Rome. The cause of reform,however, was taken up ten years later by his brother, CaiusGracchus, whose plans were much more extensive and far-reaching. This involved not merely the agrarian legislation ofTiberius, but also a reduction of the power of the Senate andan enlargement of that of the people. Our knowledge ofthe fate of his proposals is not complete, but a considerablenumber of them seem to have been adopted at least tem-porarily. Of one thing we are sure, that in his effort tosecure popular support for his measures he resorted todirect bribery of the people in his corn law. The state had. A Ballista, Time of C^sar The begin-ning of thedistributionof food. been for some time selling corn at wholesale prices to citi-zens. Caius proposed to reduce the price to about one-half the average. Taxation of the provinces would makegood the loss. The people of Rome would gain the this plan was to aid in the ruin of the small farmer and todrive him into the city to swell the proletariat, Caius prob-ably did not foresee it, nor the other natural result that onedemagogue would inevitably bid against another till at lastthe city would be supporting an unemployed mob, a greatvoting machine run for the benefit of the highest bidder orthe moments favorite, and serving as the foundation of hisrule of the state. Caius perished as his brother had of mob § 78] Cains GraccJins 85 violence, and his measures led to no permanent reforms, butthe age of revolution had opened with bribery, plain viola-tion of the constitution, and dire
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