01/07/1897
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"Any intermediary between the people and their Government or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen makes the boast of free institutions a glitterin..."
"The existing situation is injurious to the health of our entire body politic."
"Let us follow the way it points out; it will not mislead us."
"The Government itself is under bond to the American people that in the exercise of its functions and powers it will deal with the body of our citizens in a manner scrupulously honest and fair and abso..."