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with His denunciation will be but a faint symbol of the 

 ruin which will overtake this boasted civilization of the 

 nineteenth century. " 



The money power is the great power to fear in the 

 country. By concentration of wealth and combination of 

 effort, they dominate everything. Party leaders are their 

 willing servants; legislatures their pliant tools, and in many 

 instances the courts of the country have become engines 

 of oppression. The interests of these corporations are rep- 

 resented principally by bankers and lawyers. The money 

 power dominate the conventions, and nominate such men 

 as are friendly to their interests. The pretense that the 

 people control the conventions is a sham. They are mere 

 figureheads. The only question they decide is which agent 

 of corporations will represent them in a legislative or execu- 

 tive capacity. Usually the representative of the corporations 

 is a lawyer. It is a lawyer's business to make money by 

 his profession. He, perhaps, owes his election to the money 

 and influence of, some corporation. It takes but a slight 

 stretch of the conscience to take a bribe and call it a fee 

 for services rendered, such corporation, in aiding in the 

 passage of such measures as will be to its interest. Con- 

 gress, for years, has been dominated by bankers and lawyers. 

 The Forty -fifth Congress was composed as follows: 



Lawyers ... 274 



Bankers 27 



Merchants n 



Doctors 9 



Editors. ... 6 



Manufacturers 6 



Farmers 6 



Teachers . 3 



Politicians 2 



Clergymen 2 



