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Show JOB'S COMFORTERS. In the past decado Lhcro has grown Up In this country a school of lncoinploto Idealists, social reformers, who. In their methods and theories, seem to have gone bade to tho old-'tlmo theology. They seek to apply to rtocletv as a whole tho methods meth-ods which failed with the Individual. From ono branch of this cult has conic the modern literature of "exposure." They show us our soclaI sore spots, like tho three cheerful frlonda of Job. They expose ex-pose In countless pages of magazines and newspnper3 the sordid and depressing rottenness of our politics; tho hopeless apathy of our good citizens; trie remorseless remorse-less corruption of our grpat financiers and business men. who aro bribing our Legislatures, swindling the public with fraudulent etock schemes, adulterating our food, speculating with trust fund's, combining In great monopolies to suppress and destroy small competitors and ralso prices, who are breaking laws and buying buy-ing Judges and Juries. Thoy show us the growth of business "graft." tho gangrene gan-grene of personal dishonesty among an honorablo people, tho depressing Increase-In Increase-In the number of bribe-takers nnd bribegivers. bribe-givers. Thoy tell us of tho riotous extravagance ex-travagance of tho rich, and the growth of povorty. Theso exposures form the typical typi-cal current literature of our dally life. As our appetite grows jaded and surfeited, tho stories become moro sensational so as to retain our attention. TItous Oatos and his plot live again In the amazing historian his-torian of modern finance. The achievement achieve-ment of tho coristructivo elements has neglected to. givo spaco to these spicy stories of graft and greed. Tho Atlantic |