Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14597436840)

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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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than he, and no one pursues the wrong-doer more relentlessly. His searching Post-Office investigation is a case in point. Forpolitical uses, the Democrats in Congress urgeda non partisan Congressional investigation of thePost-Office Department. The country laughedat them, for President Roosevelts investigatorshad disclosed the fact that patronage-huntingSenators and Congressmen of both parties wereat the bottom of more than half the trouble, andin addition, that within a few years the twoworst offenders had been investigated and tri-umphantly acquitted of any wrong by two non-partisan Congressional committees ! The Houseof Representatives, which blundered into pub-lishing a report describing the doings of a largefraction of its membership, had a short attackof hysterics thereat, for the benefit of the simple-minded constituents at home. Then the matterwas dropped, and will stay dropped. Meanwhile,the Governments prosecutors keep on indicting 38 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. 39 and convicting the principal offenders. The peo-ple prefer Mr. Roosevelts kind of investigationto. Congressional hysterics and claptrap. Privilege has had some fairly hard raps oflate, and the American people have a prettyclear idea that Mr. Roosevelt will give it a fewmore before he lays down his office. Botli thosewho buy what they should not have and thosewho bulldoze are being taught their place in ailemocracy where each is as good as his fellow-man, but no better. The gentry in the Govern-ment Printing Office who had expected to turnthe public service into a closed shop, and toadmit and reject whom the// chose, were broughtup with a round turn in the Miller case. Thepeople liked that tremendously. The greatestmagnates in the land, aided by the shrewdestlawyers, organized a huge corporation in viola-tion of law. The Supreme Court, at the instanceof the Administration, ordered it to dissolve.The people liked that tremendously too.