Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to a Reform of Parliament. An Essay
Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to a Reform of Parliament. An Essay
Grey, Henry George Grey, Earl, 1802-1894
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It has made the President a pawn, with which to make the first move, — a puppet, to keep the people amused while their pockets are picked. It has excluded from the service of the State nearly every man of ability and worth, and enabled bloated and beastly demagogues, without a ray of talent — ^without a sentiment of magnanimity, illiterate, vulgar, in- sensible to shame, — ^to exert a power in this Eepublic which its greatest Statesmen in their greatest days never wielded." — Greeley* s Life, p.... 100. We are not, of course, to accept this description as being literally correct ; it is obviously written under the influence of excited feelings which must probably have led to a good deal of exaggeration ; but making all allowance for this, the state of things which could be viewed in this light by an American citizen must . be very badi There is also abundant other evidence as to the main fact of the general prevalence of corruption. Mr. Baxter, in his ' America and the Americans' (page 59), speak- ing of several Americans having been heard to declare, " that they believed their own Government to be the most corrupt on the earth," says, " This appears to me too strong a condemnation ; but the disease prevails in the State Legislatures, and in the Councils of the various cities, just as much as at Washington.
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