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safe while politics is regarded as a game." If we 

 make it impossible, as we intend to do, for one man 

 to win at the expense of another, we shall end the 

 game business and destroy the interest in politics 

 now shown by men who ought to be banished from 

 politics. With the people in power, and with the 

 government, which is now a great gambling affair, 

 turned into an honorable business enterprise, corrup- 

 tion, bribery and extravagance will disappear, and 

 elections, instead of being fierce and degrading strug- 

 gles for spoil, will be, as they ought to be, sober 

 consultations regarding questions of principle and 

 policy in which all will have a legitimate interest. 



