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Show TOO MUCH "BA3Y ACT."' Mn in oflico have been asserting their integrity at tho expense of their intelligence with various degrees of success, but with persistent regularity, for the past three or four years. Tho Credit Mobilier statesmen did it. Ex-'Senator Ex-'Senator Harlun, with his two $5,000 checks, did it. The District of Columbia Co-lumbia ring, with its over-iseues and its disregard of law, did it. Secretnry Delano's plea was the same. All the Indian ring availed themselves of it. So did the canal ring in this state. Minister Schenck, with his Emma mine scandal, falls back upon it. It is the plea, in short, everywhere and all the time wherever there have been dishonest administration, peculation, corruption, robbery. Always somebody some-body is the victim of conspirators or etll advisers, and somebody never docs wrong except through ignorance or misapprehension. The last and best illustration of it wo have seen was not in official life, but it shows how contagious is tho example of representative men. It was the case ot a Chinaman, who, having been caught stealing a gridiron ami kicked out of doors, turned upon his pur-surer in the most innocent manner with the inquiry, "You no likoe hnd uni?" Didn't know it was stealing, only borrowing. Theso gentlemen, all of them, are too credulous, too nasi I v imnrwed nnon. Whv would it not be well to require hearat'ler some degree of inteligence in public men? They have abundance of integrity, it seems. The trouble is they havo not the intelligence or capacity to make their integrity worth anything. New York Tribune. |