People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Who Bribes. [ARTICLE]

Who Bribes.

Who bribes aldermen? , Agents at corporations. Who bribes legislators? Agents of corporations. Who bribes congressmen? Agents of corporations. Who bribes United States senators? Agents of corporations. Who bribes courts? Agents of corporations. *' Who bribes juries? Agents of corporations. Who sets up the primaries? Agents of corporations. Who furnishes boodle to politicians? Agents of corporations. Moral—ls you find these things continue to vote for men who believe corporations should be chartered or allowed to own property. Every franchise granted crepates another bribe to corrupt your public servants, and it win reb the people to get the money to do it.—Appeal to reason.—Kansas City.

Mr. Preacher —you who lecture your congregation so often on the sacred duties of going to church and paying your salary—how much have you done to arouse public indignation against this national disgrace of the congressional bar-room? How many times have your brethren in Washington preached against it? How many times has the chaplain of the house, or the chaplain of the senate, prayed to the Most High God to blast with His divine wrath the abominations which those chaplains knew to exist within sixty feet of where they prayed ? * * * He is dead. Appoint your funeral committee to escort the lifeless body back to his home; furnish this committee with plenty to eat and to drink and to smoke on their doleful journey; appropriate from the common treasury the money to pay for the burial; endow the widow with the salary for the “unexpired term.” Do all this, solons of this Christian republic!—and then go back and tell your congressional bar-room to kill another one. * * * Here is a paragraph from a democbratic newspaper which supported Clevelapd in 1892, and which found no language too savage to use towards those who opposed Mr. Cleveland and who predicted that he would carry out the very schemes he has since manipulated. (Sparta Ishmaelite:) “The masses of this country have had