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WHOLE No. 668. b Confession have the happiness to give our of We the following "+honest[confesion" People ders Chicago Daily Republican. is said the see and know all that by of who the Republican, can and yet, and as if drawers proud of being "hewers of wood abased as to sustain mary are so and the inso official the water," robbers of their intolerants. money A bravem lence of once, a cringing, cowardly span- earth iel dies of but a man is daily suffering on the tortures of the damned. "Real danger besets the country. become Cor- the ruption in the government has This political not the exception. has existed rule, in our capital city that debauchery and become so stereotyped, corporations, 80 long, legislat municipal companies State institutions, railroad been in banking courts of justice, have demoralizaand eyen with the same general assembles fected No law-making body now on the tion. a confident expectation "steal," without of community that some conserving part the shadowy pretense committed. of To under public good, will be become the extent has this conviction ivania, current such an in New York and of Pennsy the General that the coming together is viewed with in those States and Assemblies apprehension by the occasion people, for positive of adjournment is an The same the day universal rejoicing. already findalmost in less degree, are of the feelings, their wav into other sections Legislatures ing What is true of the Office Union. true of municipal boards. the instruis equally description is made the country of ment every by which the wealth of schemes placed under self-aggrandizing of downis possess all the attributes the legal which larceny, excepting only that crime. right and limitations of cashiers, definition plundered by dishonest offenders Banksare and presidents and the received compound the tellers into society felonies, with and applauding talent, are audacity comback at the ingenuity, Railroad ments magnitude of their thefts. of their coinofficials and employ the speculations, funds water stock in private Wall street individual panies combine to advantage, bull or bear and are in turn and by conductors, contractors, Judges stain swindled underlings of every degree. with bribes, and of their robes bidder. the purity verdiets to the highest adulterate juries sell many of them, is Manufacturers. commodities. Misrepresentation of trade. their the commonest tools as an one Successful of dishonesty To take is regarded advantage of excellent joke. is considered legitimate been dealing such ignorance this country has there part Never in of unsound morality. conspieuous Every a reign Union abounds with it Chicago of the The fish-brand business in The sugar ly. of our allegation. testimony The conviction preof frauds in New Orleans offer new of two of as to wealthiest its truth. distillers at Williamsport two years the and their sentence of to the revenue imprisonment Pa., for violation in support affords further evidence of capi laws, proposition. The issuance of four mem of our Monday for the arrest in Memases on the Board of Aldermen office, bers of charged with malfeasance statement in phis, confirmation of our in the additional the recent defaulting the appoint So are Bank, in New York the city of Ocean lately of a receiver for notorious ment in consequence of authori Nashville, by elected and side. mal-administration the habit of Chicago jurors We blackmailing ties; look any where the winning without finding erous not evidences of corruption. No philosophical observer thorough can have any facts. difficulty in of arriving the tendency at a of applied, the prehension corrective can be Unless some free institutions must prove list of deboasted adding another to the long the prinure, and reinforcing as be funct republics, monarchy. Distasteful this cipal of its truth cannot reflection may be, The corruption reasonably denied. be expected abroad in community cannot It will and it at its present growth. until to stop its demoralization to must become, spread as it were, disreputable who shall shall honest man, and they the golden adopt be an "do as a unto rule others of conduct as you be would regarded have rule-' them do unto as you" impracticable -will fools It is who with contempt know their own interests. that do not of our politcal system of the the theorism the virtue of the masses doubts the rests upon If so, and no one people. then whenever the masses demoral- of proposition, shall become utterly democratic the people props which uphold our ized, institutions the will be practically gone. is surer than the fact that calls for Nothing Governmental organism morality, present fosters, not virtue, integrity, talent and and intelligence, capacity, This urity, opposites. needs proves patriotism, that our but political their structure institute a new re-modeling. We must accord with the system, more in doctrine of the elective the age. The and demands of majority is not broad com numerical cover present prehensive enough Hitherto to the idea of a reprccontra-distinguish plications. interests, numbers, sentation of government of mere except in remote ed from a put into practice, This has not and been very imperfect manner.
