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pressure. In respect to this class OF busi-
ness the legislator and the lobbyist have
been wont TO act upon the highwaymans
motto. "Your purse or your lfc!' These
| so-c1llcd "strikprs' have lifted the hand.
If the measure paid toll, IT lived and
thriycd; if ii refused to pay, IT fell and
| never again rose to its feet Pretty much
everything was embraced in this fell
swuop charters for interior cities and
. villages; interpretations for doing thugs
possible, impossible, and absurd; acts To
| tap ponds. to brdp" creeks. to lay uut race
| courses. TO fence in ciaVoNards. to author
| iIc eft lotteries. to erect asylums Go ham
hooHc ortugmcn. 60 protect widows 10
cheat orphans, Und 80 on 81 the cn1 of thc
chapter Of measures good, bad, and III
different. All these had to pay; aud the
annual receipts which the ravcnoua profit
gatc- who occupied the chairs and thronecd
tic purlIcus OF the Capitol obtained from
these sources were enormous.
But why 60 into fu'"'rt de'ail' For
: hltecn ycus ami upward the LEGISLATURE OF
Sew York, Ia the Judgment of an impartial
people. has stood with only n single peer
we mean OF course the Legislature of the
state cf Addition. Division, and silence
among the Legislatures of the North AMI
West in the colossal dimensions Of its cor
| Iuption. So infamous has been il. general
character that membership in it has sub
jcctod honest men to the most cruel su>-
picions; :or in the public estimation every
person who consented to go TO the Senate
of the Assembly was priHd fGciC a rogue,
and would be regarded as having gone to
Albany TO steal rather than to lccislatc
for 80 per day, until hc had proved the
contrary by his acts. And this rule Is not
| Yet vacated. II may be rs unjust us il Is
severe. Nevertheless an oft-hctrayod pco-
pie, u ihcy saw certain candidates recently
running around their districts and coltu-
tics and spending thousands of dollars to
get into the Legislature, serl louslN doubted
whether all of thom contemplated living
four OF five months in the expensive city
of Albany on the pa'try pttaucc of 5000.
Judging harsAly, perhaps. they thought il
uv; Improbable that at least some of ,hcu
were going There q steal.
Il docs uot lluut the poin. Of these f.Dt.
g. a,.cyt that this was always so, that the
Legislature las ever been corrupt. ami so
On. This is not true. Twenty, forty ami
sixty years ago the Legislature Of y ~
York was not corrupt. At long intervals
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