Show concerning POLITICS A cafe case has been submitted to a chicago grand jury in which the general superintendent of 0 tho the pullman car company is charged with dismissing one brown from its employ because be refused to vote the way the employer wanted him to this means if it means anything that in illinois it is a crime for a corporation po ration to make partisanship a guide in the selection of its employees what a wonderful amazement would be created in the minds of th the 8 public if this charge should actually form thel basis of an indictment 1 nothing since the downfall of tweed could compare with it there may be laws plenty of them making it a crime to bribe a voer boer with a dollar or five live dollars to vote by dictation but it is no matter about that the law is one thing and the executing of it is another quite different for 20 years the law makers of several 0 of I 1 the states of the bunion have been virtually controlled by corporations indeed the better half hall of them are today to day under the absolute subjection of these very people the legislatures are largely composed of them they fill nearly all the offices of the state and the congress of the united states is little more than an assembly ot of corporation agents the senate of the united states is so conspicuously so 60 thabit that 11 ll has for years borne the popular appellation of our national abil leonaire lio club but there ia is no use sniveling over I 1 an infamy that is to as broad aa as the nation and as long as its constitution whether it is a railroad president un der bidding his predecessor on the 13 state late of california or era a shrewd iiona ier purchasing eine indiana in blocks of five ow 0 an educational campaigner buying ohio at a single pale or a bargain i c counter sunday school cla class so leader drawing hie his personal check for a lease direct on the administration the general meaning is the tile same which is that a thing so fashionable as the tile corruption of ballots in these united states will not be considered good material for indictment by a chicago grand jury |