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AKING the present attitude of our political affairs, and the moral status of our politicians, we have have nothing that is cheering or inspiring. On the contrary, there is much to discourage and depress.

Legislation is almost entirely for the benefit of speculators, monopolists and railroad and government rings. Nine-tenths of the laws are made in favor of the rich, and expressly to give them exclusive privileges.

As indicating how little sympathy is felt by politicians for the working people, one of the members of the State Legislature, at Harrisburg, in the winter of 1873, denounced in his organ, at Beaver, Pa., a resolution adopted by a mass meeting of workingmen, held in Cooper Institute—the resolution being to the effect that 'no individual should be allowed to hold a sum of money or property greater than throe hundred thousand dollars.' This the honorable gentleman denounced as "a devilish theory."

It seems to me, that sum is a very liberal allowance for one man, especially, when we consider that the entire wealth of the nation, which amounts to about twenty-five billions, would only give three hundred thousand