Bigotry sees nothing but itself, which it mistakes for wisdom and virtue.

But Bigotry begets hypocrisy.

When this spreads over a sufficient area and counts a voting majority it sends its agents abroad, and thus we acquire canting apostles and legislators at once corrupt and despotic.
They are now largely in evidence in the national capital and in the various state capitals, where the poor-dog, professional politicians most do congregate and disport themselves.
The worst of it is that there seems nowhere any popular realization--certainly any popular outcry.

Do the people grow degenerate?
Are they willfully dense?
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