The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-15
BRrBERt ANH CORRUPTION.

tions. 1t lisa sin We got from the
other side of the water. You know
in many OF tbs legislatures of this
country, it has been impossible to
get bill through unless it had f.
nancial consideration. The question
has been asked in regard to bill
SIS there any money in it?" And the
Hobbies of the legislatures and the
National capital have been crowded
with railroad men, manufacturers
contractors, and the iniquity has
been SO great that sometimes re-.
formers and philantropists have been
laughed out, because they came
empty-handed. You vote for this
bill and I'll vote for that bill you
favor that monopoly ola moneyed
institution, and I'll favor the other
monopoly OF another institution.
And here is a bill that is going to
be very hard to get through the
legislature and you will call some
friends together at q midnight ban
quet and while they are intoxicated
you will have them promise to vote
your way. Here are $4,000 for pru-
dent distribution in this direction
and here are 1900 for prudent dis
tribution in that direction. Now
We are within four votes Of having
enough. You give $4,000 to that
intelligent member from Blank and
you give $4,000 to that stupid mem
Der from Blank. And now we are
within two votes of having it. Give
$500 to this member who will be
sick and stay at home, and $500 to
this member who will go to see his
great aunt languishing in her last
sickness. Now the day has come
for passing of the bill. The Speak
er's gayel strikes. s ae eA
Senators, are you ready for the
question? All in favor of voting
away these thousands or millions Of
dollars will say aye" Ay! ay ay
hay!
"The ayes have it,
Some of the finest hodses Of our
cities we're huilt of money paid for
votes in the legislatures. Five hun
dred small wheels in political ma
chinery with cogs reaching into one
great centre wheel, and that wheel
has tire Of railroad iron and a
crank to it, ON which satan puts his
hands and turns the centre wheel,
and that turns the five hundred 9TH
err wheels of political machinery.
There are too many in this country
who have their two millions and
their ten millions, and their twenty
millions, who carry the legislatures
in one pocket and the congress Of
the Urited States in the other.
There is trouble ahead. Revolu-
ton! Ipray God it may be peace
full revolution and at the ballot box.
The time must come in this country
when men shall be sent into public
position who cannot be purchased
Bribery is cursing this land. The
evil started with its greatest power
during the last war, when men said
"Now, you give me this contract
above every other applicant and you
shall have ten per cent of all make
by it,"
But it was all right. They get the
bonus. Inever so much believed
in republican form of government
as do to-day, for the simple rea-
son that any other style of govern
ment would have been consume
long ago. There have been swindles
enacted in this nation within the
last thirty years, enough to swamp
three monarchies. The democratic
party filled its cup of iniquity be.
fore il went out of power before the
war. Then the republican party
came along and its opportunities
through the contracts, were greater
and SO it filled its cup OF iniquity &
little sooner, and there they lie to
day, the democratic party and tht
republican party, side by side, grea
loathsome carcasses of ini9uity, eacl
one worse than than the other. Ten,
' of thousands of good citizens in all
the parties, but you know, as vel