I can't make out that there's anything of a civic or national nature that he's interested in.

He doesn't seem to read anything in the papers except the racing and betting news.

He doesn't seem to feel that he has any stake in this great country of yours, or any responsibility towards it.

It makes me believe in manhood suffrage as I've never believed before.

Our people may be politically corrupt, but at least they're interested; they're alive--alive enough to want to understand how to get the best of things--as they see best.