CORRUPTION IN AMERICA.
The revelations which have been made regarding the financial relations of Senator Foraker and other* with the Standard Oil Trust afford another example of the corruption which permeates the politics of the United States. So.high did Senator Foraker stand in the estimation of his party and of the public that ho was at one time looked upon a3 a probable candidate for the Presidency in the Republican interest. The record which ha 3 now been brought to light is sufficiently 'grave 4 .0 have ruined, it is said, his public career. Whether his explanation of the incriminating evidence be accepted or rejected, a blow has been struck at his reputation from which he can never wholly recover. The great danger which confronts the people of America to-day ia to be found in the cancer of corruption which has fastened upon their public life, and until that cancer is cut out there can be no hope for their future.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 4
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161CORRUPTION IN AMERICA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 4
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