Show AMERICAN IUA MANHOOD HOOD UNDEFILED Rabbi S. S Wise Vise of Portland Or 01 Stephen speak speaking speaking ing on political corruption before the Peoples People's Institute In lii at nt Cooper Union linion New York rec recently uttered some very wholesome if very pointed truths Tile The most prolific source of political corruption he said is the lie spirit of blind bigoted parti partisanship Men think toh today that lint 1 p parties are ore lids in hi I TIie They are ale only means to the en end nd which is the country's coun tr try's 8 good Political corruption could not last an hour if t the so called respectable cla classes cs did not tolerate tol tol- lol- lol crate erate and support it Let us have ha an end cud to this thi- i Irish German and ind Ameri can We Ye ate are all Americans I am an American In my religion and moral teaching I am am a i Jew but hut butI I would not t tote vote ote for fol a Jew unless s lie he were three thrle times as ai good bod as us his opponent for fear fem that he might di discredit credit that religion Candidates are ate too frequently nominated to toI I catch catch the votes yot of sections of our population regardless re Ie s of the tile personal worth of the men RICH them themselves selves fel whom political parties place in III nn nomination The dominant idea is to tu get the Irish Ilish vote the German Getman Get Ger man vote vole the Scan Scandinavian vote or 01 some other oilier class closs of out our m population illation which when it assumes citizenship citi liti is iJ- 11 or Ol ou ought ht to lIe be he just as ItS mush much American as lR any other oilier The men thus proposed for fOl office simply to catch catchi a particular ral racial al or religious vote 3 are re frequently uen far fm from hei being n t truly representative ta t he of their race They rites are arc in fact often unscrupulous politicians a disgrace alike to the Ue race they have huye sprung from an and to th Ilni American citizenship they J have ha a assumed Both of tile the great gleat pol political patt parties lar l'- l' ar are pledged to the tile of our citizenship and should not for even the tIll minor offices of au administration commit themselves tH to lo wort worthless hl s lUen men of ot all any cm class s The New York E Evening Post lIck hold up UJ in late Into campaign n for fol Congress W. W R. R Hearst a n Democratic candidate for fOl the l House of Representatives in Greater New York Voik to the odium of the electorate n as a n leIHe representative e of vice most odious and repulsive The metropolitan accusers of Hearst t ri rightly declared The fact that the ar m arraigned ai rat man came CHILIl into illin prominence afterwards as asS as'S S 'S tile proprietor of a IL great filet metropolitan 1001 daily hii Iy fol setI fI l In ing new worlds to defile does not detract from front the I value or ot pertinence of this vivid id characterization J Yet t some men are foolish cn enough ugh to think that bt t wealth can compound ii f lot for l vice ice instead of or simply making it more glaring an and that lint notoriety ty is iR the same thin thing as tJ Even en Mr tr Hearst's Tammany Tam Tani many constituents would find it hard bard to swallow l' him if thc they fully understood the career he has run But there was waEl besides es Hearst another Tammany candidate elected representative of tile the nastiest vileness vileness vileness vile- vile ness that the metropolis has ever produced Timo Timo- Timo th thy Dry Dollar Sullivan whose whose n-whose whose career of oC infamy and iniquity oU outrivals li the worst achievements of I Turkish Starting life as aR a bootblack developing in time tinie into a saloonkeeper this audacious auda dons cious criminal while keeping out ont of the laws law's clutches h himself has all ili his life consorted with and made u use e of murderers robbers ballot stuffers staffers anti and men and women of infamy He lie is now in Congress to lo the thc 1 disgrace of that body hody but infinitely more to the degradation of the tile people who selected him for such a position No Ko position can cun elevate or honor honora a man inherently base but such elections are arc harmful harm laIm ful to t I the lie he youth of our om country who in such sueh triumphs of Ia rascality calit see sec the end justifying t the he means Such ell incidents incident in ill our public life lamentable and revolting revolting revolt revolt- ing inspired Bishop While of Northern Indiana to tosa sa say t not long ago that the typical American is heedless heedless heed heed- less how he lie gains his end Those coming in the way of his ills reaching that end were trampled upon or 11 pushed aside This lack Jack of respect for the rights right and wishes of others thc others the determination to get there regardless of co cost t or in consequences has brought about claimed the good bishop conditions in America little short of anarchistic We Ve should pause in our onward course COUlse of worship of wealth and of money our om readiness to applaud and aud encourage encourage age seeming success to pay just tribute and reverence reverence rever tr ence to pure manhood and citizenship I |