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subservient to wealth, then it is that political suicide is inevitable. Are the American people so un conscious of their liberty that they are indifferent to the infringements upon it? Everywhere are they reck lessly throwing away rights they pre tend to cherish, secured to them by their forefathers after mighty strug gles and tremendous sacrifices. By a long period of general indifference they have allowed corrupt and unscru pulous men to sell away their rights and privileges. The common people must speedily awaken to these dangers which threaten the republic ,or this fair land must needs share the ter rible fate of the commonwealths which have gone before, for these are the evils which wrecked both Greece and Rome. The time to kill the goose that lays the golden egg is at hand. Brib bery and corruption have too long con trolled our destinies. Something must be done to correct these evils, if this nation is to march on repeat ing and perpetuating the victories of peace and virtue. The magnitude of the evil makes it seem almost beyond remedy, yet these dangers are traceable to the lack of civic virtue, and lie in the failure of the general public to interest them selves in the questions of the state. If we would free ourselves of the ter rors which beset us, it will be necessa ry to arouse and marshal public opinion against them. An earnest ap peal will have to be made to the intel ligence and to the hearts of American citizens to pilot the ship of state. A higher conception of civic duty will have to be cultivated, and those forces which make for good government must be nourished. The character of our representatives must be raised and bribery stripped of every comfortable cloak. We must purge corporations of corruption and fraud, curb the rapaci ty of greedy men, and destroy the powerful influence of the lobbyists. These conditions can only be changed by an awakened public spirit, by a patriotism which will feel that a “country worth dying for in war is worth working for in peace.” Courageous and upright manhood must take command in politics. Ev ery honest citizen must realize his individual responsibility for the affairs of the state and nation. He must be loyal to his trust and earnest in his allegiance. He should take his place in the forefront of the battle exposing, denouncing and combating with un flinching and unfaltering courage the evils of his time, no matter who de fends them or what criticism he pro vokes. If he conquer he will receive a more glorious reward than ever war rior won, for he will not only secure for his native land that freedom and equality for which so many lives have been sacrificed on the bloody fields of battle, but he will give to his country a higher prosperity than has yet been attained. 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