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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...years later I became interested in the situation in St. Louis, where Mr. Folk was investigating the corruption in the board of aldermen. The aldermen confessed who had bribed them and it was found that they made up the ablest, most courageous, and most enterprising citizens of the city, as had been the case in New York. They were after franchises and grants,--in other words, privileges. Then I went up to Minneapolis and found the condition of corruption the same. Here they had gone still further and criminals were invited to come to the city to do their work...
...going to tackle this question? You say what we want in the first place is good government. That is not what we want. England has good government, but she has class government. Parliament is corrupt just like Congress. We are now passing through the same stages of government that England has passed through. Our democracy is being transformed into an aristocracy. What we want is representative government, government that represents the common interests of the people. That won't be good government for a good many generations. We want more than goodness in representatives. We want loyalty. The problem...