The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-02-01

ing a million dollars a year net. Has
the publisher of the Post any good
reason to complain of his country?
You may recall that Mr. Taft was
rammed down our throats by the
greatest of Good Gentlemen: T. R.
Mr.. Taft was all T. Il. said he w4s
an honest man, and a man of intelli-
gence. Why is T. r. now insisting u9-
on the humiliation of his former
friend? My guess is. Politics.
Tie great rascal in this ccuntry 5
not Business, but Politics. l know
there are dishonest men in business
have been robbed too often not 70
know it. but does anyone pretend
that there is not more dishonesty in
politics than in business? Business
men have finally learned that honesty
is the best policy, but no politician
ever learned it. Besides. business is
the life-blood of our every day life,
whereas politics is the real devil IF
life. 1t is often said politics are par
ticuiarly corrupt in our large cities.
The worst case of political corruption
in the worlds history was found in
Adams county. Ohio; county which
has but one railroad, and that across
one corner, AMI this was not built
until few years ago. There are al
most no foreigners in Adams county.
Ohio; the People living there are des-
cendants of revolutionary soldiers.
And you have, of course, heard how
Noble revolutionary soldiers were.
Yet in this county. more than one
quarter of the qualified voters we're
lately convicted of selling their votes. |
In an average election precinct IN
Adams county. it was found that
eighty-nine per cent of the qualified
voters had at some time engaged II
buying or selling votes.
Is this state of affairs due to a5-
sence of religious training? judge
not; anyway. one entire church coz
gregation. including the preacher,
was convicted of selling their votes.
Is the degeneracy of Adams county !,
due to lack of education? Probably
not; the school teachers were found
to be worse than any other class. The
best chance for promotion for young
men in Adams county is to become /
school teachers, and while the coun-
ty employs but 125 teachers, FIVE
hundred teachers have qualified IN
Adams county for positions in neigh
boring communities. These six hum
dred and twenty-five scohol teachers
are in Adams county during the sum
the benefit of their refining influence.
The granting of certificates to teach
ers in Adams county is not on merit,
but a matter of politics; contests for
teachers certificates have caused
much corruption in Adams county, If
not most of ii. There is law in Ohio
gainst vote selling. but the polite
ians found means to outwit the rn-
formers. A reformer who declared
against vote-buying was jeered and
beaten in Adams county, Ohio. as
strike breakers are jeered and beaten
in the average community; paper |
which favored the old system of vote
buying, in the interest OF the poor
man. was known as The Peoples
Champion. Grand juries and petit
iuries were divided on party lines.
and paid no attention to justice. When
the cleanup came, as the result oil
the work Of reformer who admits
that he himself purchased votes for
years, the poor men who sold their
votes were Indicted the rich men who
bought votes, were permitted TO be-
come informers. This course was ie-
,cided upon because If there had been
eny wholesale Imprisonment for vote
buying, as the law required, the heads