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Show D IS 1 1 0 1 ;.s TV 1 x r R I v 1 T E EI EE. When there is so much dishouestv in public affairs, it is impossible tha't private business and private men should be perfectly clean. The soil must be m a noxious state before audi noxious plants will spring up. The causes which have depravtd our politics and corrupted our Congressmen Congress-men and executive officers must also ' exercise their pernicious etfoct upon every clas and ramification of ' society. - Facts to prove this view of the case are abundant. In Hartford the other day it was discovered that a number Df respectable persons had combined with thievish car conductors, and had actually become the receivers and . harers of their stolen money. We are also informed by manufacturers iud other employers of labor th.it :t is nowadays almost impossible to :md a foreman who does not receive commission, or rather a bribe, from parties of whom it is his duly to purpose pur-pose matt-rials or articles needed in :hc business for which he is employ- ( xl. This form of dishonesty is said 1 o have become nearly universal, so hat an upright agent or foreman, vho does not iu this way plunder his imployer, has become an honorable exception. We are reluctant to believe that this evil is so widespread. The idea that a majority of our people have heroine he-roine so dishonest that they are willing will-ing to live by appropriating the property prop-erty of others would indeed be most discouraging if we could think it true. It is certain, however, that the weak-i'licd weak-i'licd morality which follows upon every ereat war aud every era of universal uni-versal speculation, cannot be confined to the villainy, fraud and plunder! which disfigure our public life and ex-! cite deep anxiety in the mind of every patriot. N. Y. Sun. |