The examiner., 1882-01-28
The Betrayed People. "

Who has not heard this over and over again and again Who has not heard about tricky designing politicians, public thieves, peculating knaves, false demago gues, selling and bartering the interests rights, and liberties of the people ?-every body.
 I have heard this, read this, until nau seated. Let us penetrate into the i ward ness of the matter and analyze this uni versal 'whine" about ''the people being betrayed.''
 Who elects the designing public thieves, these tricky peculating knaves, these false demagogues
 The "betrayed" people.
 Who re-elects them after they have been betrayed by them
 The ''betrayed' people.
 Who is it that vote sol1dly by the mil lions for whoever party convention nom- mates when it is patent to them that money and corruption ran the convention and se- cured the nomination |?
 The ''betrayed" people.
 Who is it that cry by the hundreds of thousands I've know you are right, that it is the true principle, but if we voted for it our vote would be thrown away ?"
 The "betrayed" people.
 Let me relate life incident in my per- sOnal experience:
 A few years ago the California legisla- ture met. In the lobby stood a man purch- asing votes for measure to rob the state of fifteen million dollars. In the house sat a half dozen honest men, who stood un- tainted as member after member fell be- meath the influence of bribery Six who could not be purchased. They succeeded in cutting the steal down to four hundred thousand dollars, when, in this state, it was carried in spite of their noble efforts.
 Among the six was poor school-teacher who taught little village school. If the measure had passed as first planned the farmers of this country would have been bonded into bankruptcy.
 The legislature adjourned. Another election came around. The legislative sal ary of the poor school teacher had long since been eaten up. The town council had met and discharged him from his school. Nevertheless, conscious of his own truth and merit, and hopeful from his past record, he gathered his few remaining dollars and again became candidate for a of the legislature.
 Who is the opponent, think you?
 The man who had stood in the lobby votes, whom the public notor iously knew as c., the lobbyist"
 Who was elected, think you?
 The ex-lobbyist.
 Who elected him
 The 'betrayed' people.
 What became of the poor school teacher?
 He sank into the silence of the grave dug for him by the "betrayed" people.
 What became of the elected ex-lobbyist
 He was made speaker of the house.
 What became of the six unpurchasable men?
 None of these six men who stood by the ''betrayed" people were ever elected, while many who did the reverse were returned again and again by the ''betrayed' people.
 could give the names, but that Is un- necessary. It is an incident repeating itself over and over again in legislatures and congresses.
 I am no demagogue and shall not hatter the people. In the ruling politicians of America the people behold their collective honesty and Intelligence reflected as from 8 mirror-and the reflection is a reflection in more ways than one.
 The people would fain delude themsel- yes that the fault is not their own, that it IS Uu0 WuO dE0 bu0 CdUSC O1 GuO evils complained of. How natural it is for , dishonest ignorant rascal to blame some 0ne else for his own creation.
 If you want test of the moral status of the people-the "betrayed" people open hall with dog fight on one side of he street-ifty cents admission and mother hall on the other side of the street with lecture on ninance-adm1ssion free and determine where the ''betrayed' people will most congregate.
 Just so long as person imagines his 'wn fault to be the fault of some one else md not his own, just so long will there be 10 improvement. Once hammer it into Jim that he himself is to blame, the sooner le will begin remedying the evil; the ooner the people will begin ascending 8 better plane of action and thought; the sooner politicians will become statesmen, or the people will become statesmen them MAYBEL1 Zaa Chicago Express.