The last bulwark of the nation had fallen, the country lay helpless at the mercy of legalized sandbaggers.

Even the judges were no longer to be trusted, the most respected one among them all had been unable to resist the tempter.

The Supreme Court, the living voice of the Constitution, was honeycombed with graft.

Public life was rotten to the core! Neither the newspapers nor the public stopped to ascertain the truth or the falsity of the charges against Judge Rossmore.

It was sufficient that the bribery story furnished the daily sensation which newspaper editors and newspaper readers must have.