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balanced, the difficulty of arriving at their opinions has 

 been greater in proportion as the difficulty in devising any 

 profession of faith meaningless enough not to alarm if it 

 could not be so interpreted as to conciliate the different 

 factions of the country." 



In the U. S. Senate in 1888, Senator Reagan, (Democrat) 

 of Texas said : 



u History will write it down that the policy of the gov- 

 ernment from 1869 to now, so far as the executive is con- 

 cerned, and so far as the laws were concerned, up to 1879, 

 has been distinctively a policy in the interest of the money 

 lords of this country and of Europe, a policy distinctively 

 at war with the best interests of the people of this country. 

 I know that the present administration has taken up and 

 maintained the policy of its Republican predecessors. 



U I am a very good party man, but being a party man 

 does not require me to sacrifice the interest of my country 

 and be faithless to the duty I owe to those who sent me here. 



"Remembering the duty I owe, so far as MY ACTION 

 is concerned, without reference to what those in higher 

 places may do, I propose to stand by the interest of the 

 people and insist upon their rights, and to insist that this 

 government shall be conducted in the interest of the people 

 who support it, instead of the interest of special classes, 

 who live by robbing both the government and the people. ' ' 



George William Curtis says : * 'The great parties are 

 now only the shadows of great names, and represent no 

 definite and distinct policy upon any of the exciting ques- 

 tions of the day. ' ' 



Speaking of the degraded condition of politics the 

 Rev. T. D. Talmage, in a recent sermon, says : 



"We recently passed through a national election in 

 which it has been estimated that $30,000,000 were expen- 

 ded. I think about $20,000,000 of it were spent in out and 

 out bribery. Both parties raised all they could for this pur- 



