Political Muckraking and Uncertain Times
By Editor
The political campaign that is on in this country can hardly be said to have advanced far enough to be in the heat of it; but if the sharp censures, not to mention charges of criminality and general crookedness, continue to grow worse as the battle warms up, what will it finally be just before election? Many will say that the charges that are made are merely for political effect. But even if such were really the case, what does it show of the conditions of the country when men will resort to such "muck raking" with no higher object than to win in politics? Times were never more uncertain, and anywhere that you meet men they are affirming and deploring it. It is well to study into what is the real meaning of it and what the outcome will be.