The almost criminal indifference with which the masses of the people regard these examples of the power of money over the consciences of those to whom they have intrusted their most sacred political rights, speaks badly for the safety of republican institutions, as now operated.
Woodhull highlights the dangerous apathy of the public towards political corruption and its implications for democracy.
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At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.
Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.