The Corruption Of The Venal
Politicians Of The Nation Stinks Aloud In The Nostrils Of All Men.
It Behoves The Country To Look To This.
It is time now that she
should do so.
The people of the nation are educated and clever.
The women are bright and beautiful. Her charity is profuse; her
philanthropy is eager and true; her national ambition is noble and
honest - honest in the cause of civilization. But she has soiled
herself with political corruption, and has disgraced the cause of
republican government by the dirt of those whom she has placed in
her high places. Let her look to it now. She is nobly ambitious of
reputation throughout the earth; she desires to be called good as
well as great; to be regarded not only as powerful, but also as
beneficent. She is creating an army; she is forging cannon, and
preparing to build impregnable ships of war. But all these will
fail to satisfy her pride, unless she can cleanse herself from that
corruption by which her political democracy has debased itself. A
politician should be a man worthy of all honor, in that he loves his
country; and not one worthy of all contempt, in that he robs his
country.
I must not be understood as saying that every Senator and
Representative who takes his pay is wrong in taking it. Indeed, I
have already expressed an opinion that such payments were at first
necessary, and I by no means now say that the necessity has as yet
disappeared.
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