| Show DES destruction OF FAITH IN OUR government CRIME AGAINST PEOPLE the american people are honest they demand honest administration of their public affairs under our form of government they obtain Tt tt our system of party responsibility with the constitutional provisions tor for frequent elections at which parties must render an accounting to the people safeguards our country the freedom of speech and of the press acts as an additional guarantee that no sinister influence can control 1 our government or corrupt our J great political parties individuals holding office mayl may prove false to their public trust when they do they prove equally false to their party trust their guilt is not partisan or american but personal there is no more logic or justice in condemning a party because one of its number is found to be dishonest deshone S t there I 1 is s to condemn the banking system because some bank official is dishonest or to denounce religion because becaas e some 1 church member Is recreant to hla faith those who seize upon the misdeeds of some public official as an excuse to attack our political p party arty system and to cause distrust of our political institutions are doing what they can to lo destroy the only form of government which so tar far has withstood those influences which corrupt and eventually destroy government there are but two alternatives to our system of representative party government dictatorship or one man government and the rule of 0 the mob without any exception history records that government by dictatorship invariably leads to corruption A power which Is unchecked which owes no accounting to the governed invariably becomes dominated by ambition and greed it is notorious that government by the mob leads to vicious excesses of 0 every sort and graft and corruption flourish those partisans who in their zeal to make political capital out of the dishonor of an individual fan tho the flames of class hatred and sow seeds of suspicion against all public men are contributing to the breakdown of american government they are merely aiding that small vicious class which is indulging in the same denunciation not out of a desire to make political capital but because they are frankly opposed to our form of government in the midst of such clamor it should be emphasized that our american government is clean upright and trustworthy partisan excitement and recrimination must not cause us to lose sight of the tact fact that before we are partisans we are americans with faith in our institutions those who tor for any reason seek to destroy this faith are not performing a service but an injury to the american people and to the principle of popular government |
