The following from the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle shows to what extent the influence of political corruption and covetousness has spread, not in the slums of the city, but in the rural districts, where it is supposed the honor of the nation largely exists:— "It will cost over $150,000 to each political party to get out the vote of its rural adherents in this State. Those buccolic suffragists will not want to be bribed to vote with their party, but they will insist in not voting at all, unless 'they are paid for their time.' The pay for their time means about $2.00 apiece. Farmers who are worth $250,000 in many cases demand this amount for voting even for their party. The fact is sickening, but those familiar with country politics know that it is true. The lowest slums of the meanest cities produce no public enemies more malign than those fly-gobbling clodhoppers of the cross roads."