Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-24
HIRp,s.EYe VIEW OF POODLE.


 Now and then the extent of corrup- ton in the United States is revealed to a comprehensive glance. A gentle man from Philadelphia, whom David Graham Phillips mentions in the Sat urday Evening Post, happened to scan the field some months ago at the psy- chological moment-at moment when much of the trail of the serpent was manifest; and the result of his cursory observation is calculated to give the public a shudder.
 Tn California. where this Philadel- phian happened to be for the winter he found the principal topics of con versation to be the corruption exposed in the legislature; bribery and bood- ling. heinous dishonesty and scandal involving numerous politicians of both parties. In Oregon and Washington, where he went next, he found every body excited over the land frauds and inc implication of United States sen ators and other high officials. On the trip east the observer paused at Salt Lake City, which he found agog over similar exposures. Coming on through Colorado. he heard much of rotten politics, monumental election out rages, shameless public crookedness. h Kansas he saw the press blazed with exposures of the relations of the rail roads and other like interests with politics.
 We rested at St. Louis" said MT. Phillipss Phiiadelphian, but there the cry of bodle and bribery was, if anything, louder than ever. Apparent ly the state of Missouri and the city of St. Louis were engaged in fright ful house cleaning"
 Chicago was his next stop, where he found the mayoralty campaign on and the air heavy with scandal; then to New York he went, finding the lid" off and a legislative investigat- ing committee engaged in showing up the corrupt relations between the great local gas company and the poli- ticians; then home to Philadelphia, which was trying amid great outcry to prove that its own breed of poli- tician was the worst ever known.
 This is a rather suggestive presen- tation of the field of poodle, but it is by no means complete. Had the traveller made a wider circuit he would nave found it in Dakota and Mime sota, in Wisconsin, and substantially all of the middle states. Though obviously the journey was made sew eral months ago, the same conditions 10 greater or less extent and with var jed manifestations have continued. The Standard Oil disturbances in numerous states have since come into view. bearing a close similarity to oth- CT forms of poodle trouble. Our boodle-infected territory is virtually bounded on the north by Canada, on the south by the gulf and on the east of the United States is in more or less turmoil.
 The very fact, however, that the public and press are crying down cor ruption, that legislatures and investi- gating committees, grand juries and prosecuting officials are pursuing it., speaks magnnicently for the essen tial, fundamental moranty of the American people. The people are bounding down their vicious ser wants and corrupt political leaders.
 Arizona seems to be among the few exception to poodle practice in gov ernmant. In the territory there has been few instances of attempt at bood- ling and the records of our courts show but few cases of even petty nalfeasance in office. Our laws have always been somewhat extravagant in the matter of fees and salaries to pub lie officials, but the spirit of economy and desire to relieve the taxpayers of every possible burden in becoming more and more in evidence in this ter rirOry