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Show "I agree with the President when LLw he says that 'Tho liar is as bad as the LrM thief,' " Avrites Alfred Henry Lewis in LwM the June Human Life. "I would not LtM have it inferred, however, that because lK one is mistaken in a statement of mmm fact, ho is of course a liar. Thcro is Mmm such a commodity of virtue as honest mmm error. In this matter of muck and LWM muck-rakers, every honest error, in 'mmm the fault of it, can bo laid at tho door mmm of tho muck. iH "To go for illustration to that oft- quoted muck-heap, tho se to itself: -H If every motive or word or at of each senator for, say, the present session is H not fully known, if his position nnd the reason of it aro wrapped in fog ;9 of doubt, whose fault is it? Tho fault '9 is tho fault of the senate and tho sen- j9 ators. It is within their daily power, "mm if not their dully duty, on all theso LwM Interesting points, to post mankind mmm tho muck-raker with tho rest. Tho 9 business done by senators and tho 9 senate is public business; the muck is 9 engaged, not upon Its own but tho mm people's affairs. Why then should our mm senate muck construct this secrecy n 'H what it says and does and means? 1 mmm don't know; but acting on my muck- mm - rako rights as I'vo outlined them I'll tell you what I think. It is because LtM the senato and those senators know mm themselves in what concealed things they say and do and mean, to be mere- LM ly corrupt muck, and fear the muck- 'M raker and his trenchant raking. Yes, JL forsooth; it is the fault of tho muck mm If the muck-raker mistake his facts. Tho muck, not tho muck-raker, is to 'JM blamo when tho former gets wrong- j 'M fully raked. He who acts like a burg- lar is shot for a burglar, and your sen- 'zLW ator, however pure, who conducts him- LA self like muck, should not be surprised when raked as muck. jH "I was onco young as a muck-raker H and am now old; but I havo never LA seen the righteous official forsaken LA nor the upright senator raked as IH muck." LA ' |