The Free Pass Bribery System: Showing how the Railroads, Through the Free Pass Bribery System, Procure the Government Away from the People |
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Page 50 - I was chosen to fill the said office, and have not accepted, nor will I accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing from any corporation, company or person for any vote or influence I may give or withhold on any bill, resolution or appropriation or for any other official act.
Page 172 - Supreme or Circuit Court in the Hall of the House to which the member is elected, and the Secretary of State shall record and file the oath subscribed by each member. Any member who shall refuse to take the oath herein prescribed shall forfeit his office, and every member who shall be convicted of having sworn falsely to, or of violating his said oath, shall forfeit his office and be disqualified thereafter from holding any office of profit or trust in this State.
Page 44 - I have not improperly influenced in any way the vote of any elector, and have not accepted, nor will I accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing from any corporation, company or person, or any promise of office, for any official act or influence (for any vote I may give or withhold on any bill, resolution, or appropriation...
Page 299 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 44 - Each member of such board shall before entering upon the duties of his office be sworn to support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, and to faithfully discharge the duties of his office.
Page 172 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Nebraska, and will faithfully discharge the duties of - — according to the best of my ability...
Page 178 - No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.
Page 176 - President who approved it, and subsequent Congressmen and Presidents, with rare exceptions, have ignored its provisions. Traveling, they present the evidence of their misdemeanor before the eyes of the public in a way which indicates no regard for the law. The governors of the States, many of the judges — in short, all officialdom, from the highest to the lowest, the higher clergy, college professors, editors, merchants, bankers, lawyers, present the evidence of their misdemeanor in the same manner.
Page 176 - Why should we work for scant wages in order that rich men may ride in the trains free? " Probably 80 per cent of the entire population pay fares, while not more than, say, 5 per cent pay freight rates. The law which makes it a misdemeanor for any individual not an officer or employee of a railway company to use a pass was enacted by Congress and approved by the President fifteen years ago, and as an individual rule of action it was ignored by the Congressmen who passed it and by the President who...