Arizona republican., 1904-06-06

public men,"
 After explaining that the tempta-
 ttons ard sins of today are the ternpt,t-
 tions and sins which come from wealth
 easily gotten and easily expended,
 While the sins and temptations of a
 century ago were those which belonged
 to time when money was hard to be
 acquired, frugally hubanded and
 grudgingly expended" he adds: "On
 the whole. I believe that the standard
 charged for the better since I was old
 enough to observe such things and
 that we compare very favorably indeed
 in that particular with England, the
 which we are most apt to refer for a
 standard" He sees a decided improve ment in the quality of men found at the national capital:
 When I came into public life in
 Washington, in 1869. the corridors of lthe capitol were haunted by lobbyists int crested in all sorts of schemes for p-AlIlucIllaS lIlc puDllC liedSuIN. IEGlC were quite a number of senators and representatives who were suspected by their associates of being venal.
 When I think of the conditions which prevailed then and for the few years following-Tweed intrenched ia power in New York: five judges of the United States courts fleeing from office under threats of impeachment for cor ruptiOn; the Credit Mobilier scandals: the scandals attending the Austrian exposition; the lobbying; the whole civil service treated as patronage by powerful political leaders the report of the committee on military affairs in the house recommending the expulsion of four of it's members for making safe of their privilege of selecting youths 10 he educated at our great military school; the impeachment for corrup- ton of four judges in New York: the whiskey frauds, in which the private secretary of the president was com promised; the Belknap impeachment: one eminent member of the senate saying to another, when he had de- Clared that he could find no steal in a pending measure. that if the senator could find no steal in it, it was not likely to be there; eight active replb- lican leaders in Massachusetts detected in state prison offences, three convicted two escaping on technicalities, two others fleeing from the commonwealth it seems to me as if I were living nos only in another age but in another planet. We are wont to consider the first sixteen years under the constitu- tlon-the time of Washington. John Adams. and Jenerson's first admins trat!cn-as simple and honest agr But some sad stories can be told or those days.
 Undoubtedly the great test Of pub- lie morals in any country or period is the purity of the legislature and the purity of the judiciary. There may he one or two exceptions. but in gen rrai there was never I time in our his tory when the ermine of the judge. state and national. was frcer from the suspicion or a stain. or the legislative integrity Of the members of either house of congress was SO absolutely without shadow. as now.
 "There are. l am sorry to say still scandals relating to corruption in cleo tion by state legislatures and by the people. There have been two or three cases where members of one or the other house of congress have been charged with making recommendations 10 office. which, according to the cus- tom prevailing in such cases, are en- titled to be adopted by the executive. for currupt consideration. No one of these charges. so far. has been sus- tcined upon investigation"
 MT. Hoar admits, however. that in one respect there has been degeners- ton in our politics:
 "There is one particular in which we have grown worse. That is the cor rupt use of money to affect elections or to secure nominations to the house and senate. Seats in these two bodies are objects of eager desire to men who have gained great wealth. Upon tho success or defeat of financial measures depends the prosperity of great branches of business. and the loss or the accumulation of great fortunes These accumulations of wealth are che great danger, I think the greatest danger, now menacing the republic There is undoubtedly, among men iT. public life, who are not only stainless themselves, but free from the slightest suspicion cf d stain a reluctance 10 deal vigorously with men who are charged with bribery. The men ia- culpatcd are often their political or personal friends. The offence of br!- 5ery is hard to prove, and to Grd it proved brings disgrace upon the party to which the offender belongs as well as upon the man himself So in the cases where this offence has been charged, even where it has been well proved the proceeding for it's punish mant has niscarried. Men who have had large numbers of servants in their employ, compelled to submit absolutely to their commands, are apt to lose re- spect for the individual manhood oi their workmen. There have been cases, more numerous than could be wished, where the size of a candidates barrel has had more to do with selecting him than the size of his brain"
 Teachers of penmanship naturally do q fiourishing business.-Chicago News