The Dogs and the Fleas

The Dogs and the Fleas - By One of the Dogs

Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon shortly before his death, said America was going through a period of disgrace. This was true; for there had come to pass, what the prophetic Lincoln had foretold, that, as the result of the war, monopolies had been enthroned, that had filled the land with corruption and imperilled the liberties of the people. To-day the period of disgrace is worse than then, for the corrupt tree which was then bearing so luxuriant a crop has had several years more in which to develop its fruit-bearing capacity. On every hand Mammon reigns. His throne has been set up in the very place of sovereignty. His rule is universal and absolute. The price of his favor is the sacrifice of all truth, virtue and honor. Honest, hard work has become the synonym of poverty; and it has become the fixed rule of our civilizationa rule with absolutely no exceptionthat no one can come to great wealth except by some of the many forms of legal stealing. At his feet all organized institutions bow and worship. Politics are corrupt to the core. Our legislaturesas Beecher used to declare of that of New Yorkare everywhere the shambles where legislators are bought and sold like sheep. Political bosses possess, and lord it over, the souls and bodies of the chattel voters of the parties with as brutal a despotism as ever Czar or Kaiser wielded. Legislation-favored monopolists of the various means of the peoples life, liberty and the [Pg 2] pursuit of happiness are openly and commonly termed Kings, Lords, Barons, as though in undisguised contempt of the thinly veiled pretense that this is a republic. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 62292
Author: Scrimshaw, Frederic
Release Date: May 31, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English