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Show men of great riches like Mr. Doheny, who have been so dull and callous cal-lous in regard to the effect of their financial methods. They drag down the fair name of public men before whom they hold up money lures. They do what they can to break down the faith of the people in the honesty of government officials. They create and foster suspicion, sus-picion, and give fresh currency to the cynical saying that every man has his price. Moreover, in their blindness they do injury to the very property interests with which they are identified. Their corporate enterprises, enter-prises, even when perfectly legitimate, have been placd by their course under a severe handicap. It will be difficult for them hereafter here-after to get fair play, even when they deserve it. Everybody working work-ing for them as executives or lawyers will feel that he has something to live down. Other corporations will be brought into embarras-ment, embarras-ment, and may suffer injury, in consequence of the loose and lavish expenditures in which Mr. Doheny saw no wrong. There was, however, an incalculable wrong. It was a great wrong to the nation, to the standards of officials life, to the convictions convic-tions of the American people and to all men immersed in large affairs. Now the sole thing left for Congress and the administration and party managers is to admit this truth, even if it means repentance in dust and ashes for some ,and then to seize upon the whip of small cords to drive every hucksterer out of the temple of American liberty. New York Times. CANNOT SURVIVE CORRUPTION Let there be no mistake about this. The rank and file of each party shudders at any taint of corruption. It is demand that every scoundrel, known to be such by the public, will be driven out. The instinct of all parties is to insist upon purity in public life, and to be able to go into an election with hands absolutely clean. If this requires a lot of public scrubbing of those who have besmirched themselves and their party, the disagreeable process must nevertheless neverthe-less be gone through. No party can hold up its head if it condones even the suspicion of corruption in its representative members. In the nature of the case the heaviest responsibility rests upon President Coolidge. He is the titular leader of his party. More important than that, he is the Chief Magistrate of the United States. The duty which he owes to his party is not slight. Being the just and tenacious man he is, he would scorn to think of the effect of the scandals upon his own political fortune. First of all he would rank the need of cleansing his party from iniquity, no matter whom it may nominate for the Presidency. But far above such considerations stands his obligation as one sworn to enforce the laws and to guard official morals, tc omit no act necessary to expose and punish every man in the service of the government, or who has sought to tamper with it, guilty of fraud upon the people. Mr. Coolidge has assured the country of his unrelenting purpose to pursue this task to the very end. Te asi:s for help in driving every corrupting influence out of public life, a nd he will have it so long as he clings without wavering to his annou need purpose. It is a great public labor to which he has set his hand, and Congress and the entire country are called upon patriotically to sustain him in all his efforts to restore the trust of Americans in tf leir public men. Once more we must stress the evil which has been wroght by |