Show HUT BUT AUT ING i there la Is much tn in bat col ingersoll inga said in ia the opening skirmish ot at tho the star route war on oa thursday when lie be to the ibo high official who had bad said aid though Thoi igli I 1 have hat not convicted lim him I 1 have branded like him there is ij too huchor this business Ito lagon if there am star route thieves wo we sincere ly IY hope they abc y will he be punished but abo lao course thus far pursued has in some ft a tu kar that 14 the vigor aej bow s or of tha war would dot quits come up to lo the iho lofty and bound or tho la inu naili atil log ban tho the or aidt arthur arlhur ban moro more cl ly than ID a laa that mt and james jaine geould for fortha the at least almain 10 lib his cabinet they are r tho the once who have applied ilia hand but they have hato net yet made a conviction hod had the president WM wall most moal wide in insisting ou on helping them a chiro h re they would have on no chance tp to bay J if wo we could have haro remained we would have finished gloriously the ibo atar at which wo we inaugurated against the at star r route roulo alieves ab thieve ieves hut but it wait vaa not or th that I 1 fin dicuio wo to writt the practice of branding me men without convicting them liu has grown growa quite too omaej r thia IthE it hu rowa so 0 o common that it takes a pretty prelly good man to hold halil an office now tar lor ft a fow few mouth months had and at the same time retain tho the failla of the coun try la in his hi integrity the chief or of ilia ho tilt have for the tha past eight years year been shamefully branded so no shamefully that the lin im fir colon Is general throughout tho the country that federal ru an ft a rule are either corrupt or corruptible tho the truth la Is however that ilia bust bubl of oo no corporation or heavy private establishment in the country Is I 1 carried on with so KO email all a proportionate lou loss M that of tho the government there to 1 the ibo relative IQ lou sustained now DOW that there ibero WM was in the days of washington the abo reason doubtless Is 1 that the business Is so 0 o that one ODO brunch branch or tiny given department ac M A check all ibo jihor branches or of that department anil an C error or defalcation la Is at on during the iho whalem of 1671 1674 and 1875 there were congressional c dov ted to the iho almost or cs elusive work or of trying hying to god flod frauds in tho the various binl and every oue while and aad during that time tho the work of branding wu was carried on with an a energy rod shamelessness notor never equaled before or since every morning 0 a o were riz ro baled wit promises of tho the most moet ar pulling falling corruption to bo be exposed la in a 6 day or two and including Inc loding from the president don domn it ill all coded in smoke there was wa not a 6 con WM bot proof oo 00 n bleu ley tort on of a cam could bo be founded but bul the ibo seats left by the iho brands bich facio CIO tb ibba cc affixed still ill dfora some BOIDO g elonora I 1 orious names and aad through tho the false charges then mado made tens ot at thousands of honest men mca throughout tho the country coun iry firmly and believe that corruption 2 IB tho the rule ralo instead or tho the exception among public mon men tho the mine spirit goat down anto tile private life it 11 Is ij a habit babil or of many people to brand without conviction their bora bm this trait is id more among women than moo fur w art are held I 1 to 0 a less strict for their so words than are men mcd this trait makes moro more heart aches alienates moro more friends noil and does doc more than any other it only shows that I 1 tuo b 0 millea clunk has bas not yet dand I 1 that mankind miL Is not dot j ct aud and abut lit 1 I great inacy people would not late it t perfect if they could I 1 if f it ft attaches to private life it Is f nut not strange that to minister later to party parly advantages or to ain bilion it bould ile ho taken Rd advantage vantage of i then them too tile luo people have encouraged ft a vicious jou in la tell in I 1 turn A ra h has icca practiced this ir A jour ool dal publish ft a blonder blander upon n R mao or I 1 f family am I 1 y bollich n has before stood ligh co I 1 eager la Is this desire of the I 1 humano heart been to hear bear ol of short comings in others tbt while the shot eacil t my be deno denounce for such it ft la Is normo by tho the numbly a ho he buy and read it that it is pursuing that thai style of journalism u ill bring money and anlo rily and still many ly is i just no na honest froio bathe bo the work or of branding without conviction gols goc on OD sud and tho the faith of man in a lr his fell fullove in liaa a f fresh b rebuff every cry day |