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Show It Is Ignorance of This Country That Bulwarks It and Preserves It By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE, in McNaughfs Monthly. Suppose the entire people knew the exact truth about the finances of this country from high to low, meaning all finance, not governmental, but all; suppose the people knew the truth about our office holders, our legislators, legisla-tors, our labor leaders, our social leaders, our religious leaders, our financiers, finan-ciers, our plutocrats, our exploiters, our despoilers, our professional politicians, poli-ticians, our city governments, our graft, collusion, extortion, administration administra-tion of the law, subversions of justice, briberies, subornations, police compliances com-pliances and complaisances, robberies, crooked compromises, looting of the public purse, legislative malfeasance, governmental ineptitudes and worse ; suppose the public had even a scanty knowledge of the real workings of this enormous machine we call America then what? It is not the intelligence of this country that buttresses it and maintains main-tains it. It is the ignorance of this country that bulwarks it and preserves pre-serves it. |