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hat he termned the putridity of private character. But this was illustration not exception. The criminal rich. So it comes to pass we have them, who from the official pinnacle are branded as the criminal rich. Anarchy answereth to anarchy, lawlessness at the bottom to lawlessness at the top. The grand triumph of our universal suffrage would seem to be a rediscovery of the ways and means whereby banded capital can hurl as the abject instrument of power, a servile proteletariat. Benjamin Harrison was entitled to know whereof he spoke, when on the 22nd of February, 1898, referring to the speech: A house divided against itself cannot stay half slave and half free, he gave as present paraphrase; This country cannot stay half taxed and half free. This is the reality; the other has done yeoman service to accomplish the reality. This creates the ruling class, whose reason for existence is, in place of reciprocal welfare, to ordain a reciprocal rapine; of which the ultimate promise