Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cunning that prompts the actions of the politician and the business man, while it is eagerly striven for by many, brings with it contention. Many pursue knowledge, but the enlightenment of the intellect does little to secure the happiness of men. Science tries in vain to solve these problems of life upon which our happiness is dependent. Science must look to a higher power in order to solve them...
...tendency of the time is heedlessness to man as man: it loves to think of him as part of a party, and so he loses himself in a party politics. He could not lose himself in a worse place. It would be an appalling sight if all our party politicians for the past ten years could be gathered into one mass. We could then witness the roughest, the toughest, the most corrupt heap of humanity that mortal man has ever seen. Politics everywhere is moaning beneath such men, to whom government is a thing of the past, and equity...
...fatal to good government. - (a) It corrupts the public service; Christian Ex., LXXXVII, 141. - (b) It drives good men out of politics: N. A. Rev. vol. 137, p. 257. - (c) It favors the politician: Nineteenth Cent., IV, 710. - (d) It puts government into the hands of irresponsible parties: Christian Ex., LXXXVII, 141. - (e) It kills politically those who oppose it: Nineteenth Cent...
...Melons," by C. M. Flandrau, is a clever character-sketch, full of local color, but with a deceptive title, for not fruit but the family and house of a western politician are the subject of the story...
...Caucus in Ward Three" is a story of a caucus which meets for the nomination of an alderman. Several examples of the genus politician (including a man of unmistakable Irish accent), one or two jokes, and a short description have been poured into the author's crucible and the residuum is a political sketch, with no plot and of some interest...