The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-06-03
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ing standard n pgbl,cl lie Granting
that we I've in acountry where nun.
bep have rapidly increased and
property has many times multi.
piled, siiiI are not the evidences d
moral larity IN public lie alarmingIy
on the increas
When Senators ii repute from the
leading states Of the Mon, ssch a.
new York PennsJ lyania and Hin 1is,
rise in their seats and plead guilty 81
the grossest turptude, aiming there.
by 10 receive AT immunity bath from
criminal punishment, when leading
officials in one Of the largest oi our
gigantic business institutions plead
guilty 10 beng parties to the deepest
frauds against thegOYefnment, when
"A Cabinet officer dodges in hls eyi.
dsnce from day TO day to escape from
convicting himself by his own ties
timony Of having allo wed tender con
sideration Of his private clients do
violence 10 his conscience az a high
public officer, ~ il not time for the
nation to pause and ponder towards
what such practices tend Just as
the life Of hero il worth that Of
many serfs because il becomes a
BEACON light to draw many men
towards higher and better things, 80
the criminal life OF one high in tn,
service Of the state becomes a perfect
maelstrom for the millions who Iook
On ii and are lured by its tempting
plumber to drop into forbidden paths
The remedy Well il i, not for u
to say. 1t would seem to US hoa.
ever that We must be first fully
aroused to the existence ofthe disease
and then to an outspoken national
sentiment demanding lts cure. And
10 It not more than probable that, az
the government through existing
law helps a clasS to dip so freely into
others pockets, It is only a short
step further in morals for such to
take another's o o d s-cspecially
those Of the general public without
the warrant OF law,
II such be the case, there is no more
forceful argument against our present
tariff law, and for this reason alone
its repeal should be promptly effect.
ed Certain it is that official moral.
ity is today at a sufficiently low ebb
to demand Of the scholar and the
publicist their most profound con.
alteration