(1891.)
Reply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, "Brutality and Avarice
Triumphant"--Croakers and Prophets of Evil--Medical Treatment
for Believers in Universal Evil--Alleged Fraud in Army
Contracts--Congressional Extravagance--Railroad "Wreckers"--How
Stockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money--The Star-Route
Trials--Timber and Public Lands--Watering Stock--The Formation
of Trusts--Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds--Seal
Fisheries--Cruelty to Animals--Our Indians--Sensible and Manly
Patriotism--Days of Brutality--Defence of Slavery by the Websters,
Bentons, and Clays--Thirty Years' Accomplishment--Ennobling Influence of
War for the Right--The Lady ana the Brakeman--American Esteem of Honesty
in Business--Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption--This the Best
Country in the World.