Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — Is It a Small Thing? [ARTICLE]

Is It a Small Thing?

Senator Hawley has read with amazemeat the remarks of Bishop Potter at Harvard, and “deeply deplores to hear men of eminent position and scholarly attainments speaking hopelessly of this great and wouderful nation—this good nation, as I believe it to be—picking up incidental occurrences and slight tendencies among small fragments of the people. ” Is the subjection of the whole power of the administration to the debauch of the civil rervice a slight tendency? Is the reckless and wicked pension legislation of the party in power a slight tendency? Does Speaker Reed represent merely a slight and unimportant tendency? Is the spirit shown by the National House of Representative in passing the infamous force bill only a Blight tendency which is not of the least concern to the country? Is the fact that the Chairman of the National Republican Committee is an embezzler only a slight tendency in morals at which Bishop Potter nor nobody else should be disturbed?— Chicago, Herald.