Excerpt from Speech of Hon. William Jackson Armstrong: Of Perris, CaliforniaTo a successful dry goods clerk or a railroad manipulator we pay from the earnings of the people two millions of dollars a year for the pure pleasure of being gigantically robbed! To-day, under the most primly virtuous ad ministration of this republic in half a century - the Administration in pantalettes - \ve wit ness the spectacle of a cabinet office given for the bribe of the largest donation to a cam paign fund in the history of American politics. Hereafter it can be said, under Republican administrations of this country, at least, that the price of a cabinet portfolio to successful makers of trousers is a hundred thousand dollars!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.