In the most defiled pages of the world’s history, can you find a parallel?
It is not brutal, primitive, disorganized, heterogenous vice and crime, such as inoculated nations that crumbled to decay; it is systematized, organized, commercialized corruption.
It begins with the power created at a debauched ballot box!
It ends—? God alone can tell where it ends!
THE MEAGER PURCHASE-PRICE OF POLICEMEN’S SOULS.
The police department in a large majority is corrupted. But the evil hides behind that body. It would be like paring a corn to destroy that body. The root is still imbedded in the flesh.
POLITICS—prostituted and debauched—is the root of the evil.
The honest policeman is but a plaything. If he wanders into a vice king’s district he is tried out. If found wanting in rottenness his transfer is effected. A more plastic man is found to fill his place.
The police department has sold its soul of honor for a mess of decaying pottage.
Because:—