Show AMERICAN americans are supposed to be impatient cranky and fidgety and yet they will endure more imposition and tolerate more humbug than any other people on the face of the earth it 13 Is a peculiar comment ray on american characteristics to bring the peoples gullibility in contrast with their gatior al pride ride there is no genuine american who would not lay down his life in order to keep the count rys institutions uni allied by a foreign foe and yot yet thero there are few who laho do not show perfectly asinine disregard for nearly every form of rottenness in the body politic we are just emerging from an era in which we wa learned that we had been pulled gulled for years by dishonest office holders what is being done at pr present sent along alone this fineis line is merely the echo of the reforms that have been made mada within the past few years and it seems that we are now getting ready for another long slumber which will give the tha grafter a chance to snatch the crust from the orphans mouth of course coarse these periods period of t calm forgetfulness cannot be avoided for they come willy nilly there is room for but one regret and that is the fact that we did not get rid of our representative non and incompetent com p detent office holders while delvere wo were ousting our dishonest public officers |