Show i I LOW 1111 MOKAL Senator Sella lor Hoar finer lie II 0 11 that thai the stan lIton standard durd liard of ot private and public has liRA Improved in this country dur during durIng ing InK the last CO to A years ours oare Hut I In one mar gar he admits that public morals have lillI degenerated aul that Is inn In regard to tho use nf of money to nomina nominations lions nail elections He Ito devote upon Ulon the of If rich men teen In to tf obtain seats In Inthe Inthe the national legislature and aurl declares their accumulations accumulation to tf bo he the greatest danger dunKer threatening tho the republic Ho lie thinks no too tan severe for tor forthe the time men who corrupt an nn electorate pad yet It admits time the offense Is 18 not treat treated ed II M Ith 1111 time tho execration It deserves and commonly corn escapes punishment though a n corrupt and rotten republic cannot long be hI saved and will not ba ho worth tho the It will bo he readily admitted that no censure can he be too loo strong trong upon upun tine the evil here pointed out nut The Tho unscrupulous loud Illus resort to bribery brIber and amid nil forms farina of corruption constitute a n I real reul danger to trIo tree Institutions lint limit It would possibly bo ho wrong to conclude that the use of money to In obtain Influence Is n m proof of tit modern degeneration In morals ripe Tle fact IH is that thul an Oil tar far hock hack ai ns history KOCH goes wo we learn leorn that soma people have ob oh obtained morn moro than limo their duo share nitro of In Influence fluence over their fellowmen me The thirst for power Is hardly any nn more now 1011 than In the tho early ogee ngew There Thero have havo always been heon holders kings tyrants The Tho means of obtain obtaining lug ing have 0 not l always beer been the tho name same There was II n thou limo when the most successful slugger became the leader lealler of or oilier lighters nn In I 1 through them he lie obtained Influence arid wealth Others have havo obtained prominence by crafty appeals to tho the superstitions mind and of men Today wealth health Is I moro more ahlin abundant dant danl tuna than over oer rind and It Is used to satis satisfy fy with Men formerly en on enslaved slaved by hy physical force or Intellectual Jugglery today loday tall under the yoke yoko oko of Mammon It 11 Is very cry much as n It ever eer was woe The alms alias and objects are ore the tho same the tha means of ot obtaining them dlf dif differ for fer Hut Bill In one ono respect It 11 appears tint that our ago age Is I fast degenerating and ond that Is II In regard to time tho value placed hu human human man life Ufe As All one ono of or this It Is IA saM said hut thal hundreds of craft were afloat In tho the East incur of Now New York nt tit tho the time of the tho Slocum diameter nil and not ono one cared to render assistance until It was wan too late Int That sounds lounds almost In mind yet the tho story It or Is It vouched for tor Tho Time n nova ws reports any ay that yachts yachtsmen men engaged In hr sidling nailing for Cor pleasure busy husy nt at trade and other o hor horler persons persona ler OnA In III charge char of at craft croft moving about In the tho Immediate neighborhood of time tho scene of the horror refused to re cc respond spond to time the appeal made to them by bytho bytho bytho tho Scores of or men teen It I wild paid who might have saved raved bun hUll dads of lives declined to 10 bc Je turned many away from tine the pursuit of lne s or pleasure until It Il was wan too loo into lato to do any on good tood They Thoy refused It appears to lend nil aid a III In tho the beginning hilt butt whan hundreds had perished 1 and hundreds nitro moro wore In M peril Merit the morbid curios curiosity It ity for tor something horrible Impelled them to dross draw near moor tho Iho scene Now not oven would I hlo acted thus toward their ow n kind Tharo Is In n II general Indifference as liB regards hu hn human man life which that lint morel moral standards are arc h lowered The rho proofs of ot this assertion are arc numerous |