| Show habitual crime in politics L I 1 1 I r AN AX ENGLIS ENGLISH 11 VIEW OF AMERICAN MORALS RALS it will not do for or us to forget that the kind of contest in which the united states are now for the most part engaged hns haa materially changed the complexion of party questions parties have not net disappeared notwithstanding all the talk there ha has been during the past few years about the nonpartisan non partisan character of or elections and party responsibility lity has hag not disappeared but the discovery that has been made of the frightful political demoralization of the country and the habitual crime which has been revealed under the name dame of politics has haa rather given party responsibility a new character what whal is watched in an american party now is not the progress it makes makee in solving any ally of the great social or political pron problems enis onis of revenue taxation property etc but how much burglary murder theft or peculation tho tha members of it when in power commit und and when they have committed doomany too many for endurance they go out then some other party comes in and the process begins again athin asage As a general rule ruie therefore when newspapers nowadays advise the independent voter as they have been doing so liberally in the last campaign to vote here aga against ast the deboer democratic tic an and d her here against the republican it is not because they expect the tho defeat of an one e or the success success of ot theother the other to bring in the millennium er or materially al y forward any aily special policy bui but because they wish the party against which they speak to be punished lam in much ch the same way that they wish to see sue thieves la in jail we ca cannot nn ot say that we find in the recent campaign any evidence that this process ig is coming to an end nor will it close probably until continued m misfortune makes the country understand that habitual crime in politics is itself the result of natural causes and will not cease till those causes are removed palt fall mall mail gazette gazelle |
