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Show PULL DOWN THE BLINDS AT LEAST BEFORE CHILDREN prcter's House," in the December American Magazine sujs in part: ."The most objectionabl ethlng nbout the testimony before the Senate Coin-Ittce Coin-Ittce wax not that a millionaire gavo $150,000 for the purpose of gaining a grip on the national administration (If he lealiy did), but that ho was not ashamed to confess the fact publicly pub-licly nnd without contrition unless you can call contrition Ills grief over the waste of the money. "It Is the acceptance of these things as a matter of course by both tie pe"sons engaged In them and tho public at large that Is disturbing. If they are dono nt all, thoy ought to be done secretly, o boWg the gentle-mon gentle-mon who engngo In these transactions transac-tions to be civil enough nt least to pull down tho blinds while tho monoy Is passing. The children may bo coming home from school, nnd perhaps per-haps their parents wouldn't like them to know how the government of their free republic Is appreciated ,by the kindly philanthropist who passes tho plate In church on Sundays. "President Hadley of Yale onco suggested social ostracism as a euro for tho truBt evil. Wo were, younger then, nnd wo laughed at tho mlldnoss of tho antlacptlc. It seemed a good denl like treating septicemia with a five per cent solution of boric ncid. We felt pretty sure that tho trust directors di-rectors would not bo greatly Inconvenienced Incon-venienced by missing an Invitation to tea In Now Haven if tho Waldorf remained open. Indeed, Doctor Hadley Had-ley did not appear, through his later treatmont of contributions to Valo University to take his own opinions too nustorly. , "Yet aomethlng might bo said in favor of this remedy, for It Is tho gen-oral gen-oral acceptation of tho evil as customary cus-tomary and blameless that 1b at tho bottom of tho trouble. If you show the men who put up the money that It Is ns shameful to brlbo n legislature legisla-ture or buy votes as It Is to pay n bank cashier a commission to extend a loan, they will stop bribing legislatures legis-latures and buying votes." |
