Political Corruption and Reform
By Editor
A recent expression on the part of a leading politician is a startling admission that even the prominent citizens of our time—those whom people choose to conduct public affairs—can not long be trusted. The utterance to which we allude is: "I say it is a good thing to have a turn of the political wheel; if we did not have it once in a while we should soon have a social and political revolution." So corrupt would any set of men in our republic become with a too long continuance of opportunity that, were it not for the occasional "turn of the political wheel" there would of necessity come a social and political revolution. Such is the open corruption among the chosen representatives of the people that one who for years has occupied an influential position, and knows by experience whereof he speaks, frankly and publicly voices the sentiment we have quoted. Nor is it a partisan charge; it is an unqualified statement of conditions touching all parties, by one who knows.