The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-13

and that the republican party as now con-
stituted is responsible for all their sins
which is absurd-what does it prove ?
That politics in America is more corrupt
than that of any other nation that the
present is more corrupt than the past that
more corruption 10 TO be found In the re-
publican party than any other party has
ever been guilty of? Not at all.
Let us see how ii has been with Great
Britain. Goodwin Smith, an English pub
licist, who has studied our institutions, and
cannot be accused of any Partially for us,
says that instead of there being 80 much
corruption here. we are in "panic" on
the subject, and that the corruption in that
country, growing out of the mania for rail-
road building exceeds anything ever even
dreamed of in America. Speaking of this
era, he says 1.-THE .house of lords was
/" Just as bad as the house of commons
it, in fact, formed one great ring, which
" exacted from railways tribute under the
name of compensation for every member
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erty on line and who chose to raise an
opposition. The parliamentary expen-
" ses of the London and Brighton railway
" were fifteen thousand pounds per mile,
and if the details could be brought to
light English journals would, perhaps,
find themselves constrained to speak in
more lenient terms even Of the Washing
ton lobby, detestable as it 49,"
Coming to our own country, we find the
legislation of New York prolific with in
stances showing what pure party the
democratic party is, and how purely they
would legislate, had they the power. In
the charter Of bank it appeared in proof
that members of the legislature were offered
for their votes the right of subscribing for
given number Of shares, with a guarantee
that the shares should be purchased of
them at twenty-five per cent. advance;
that senators were offered the privilege of
subscribing for thirty shares with guar
antee of an advance of twenty dollars a
share, while others were guaranteed clear
profit of one thousand dollars without one
cents outlay; and, in commenting on these
facts, Hammond says; But notwith-
standing these palpable proofs of at
tempts at corruption, and the almost ir-
" resistble inference that some of the
" members who voted for the bank had
- been tempered with, and refused to dis
1" close the corrupt offers which had been
" made to them, and which they had ac-
" copied, the vote in favor of the bill on
g its final passage in the assembly, was
" stronger than the vote on its enacting
" clause
This was not an isolated instance, and
we only refer to it because the proof in
that case established the corruption be-
You'd any reasonable doubt, and because
the actual proof of corruption intead of de-
promote its passage. We might trace these
instances of corruption all the way down
to and through the palmy days of William
NJ. Tweed and Jay Gould, showing that
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almost openly bought and sold by demo
cratic politicians, that democratic money
would and did control legslation-but it il
unnecessary. The fact is notorious.
There is no one to question or doubt it.
Yet these very men cry "Credit Mobilier,
and shout "Reform, reform, REFORM" and
because suspicion has unjustly attached to
a few leading republicans, and few Others
have been detected in corrupt practices
and promptly thrown overheard by thu
party, demand that the administration O
the government shall be committed to the
hands--to the hands of a party which
while shouting reform, still hugs to it
bosom exposed corruptionsts and, SO ia
as possible, furthers their schemes.