………………”He is said to have bought legislatures and judges as other men buy food and raiment. By his example he has so excused and so sweetened corruption that in Montana it no longer has an offensive smell…..His history is known to everybody; he is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a chain and ball on his legs”…This was said in 1907 by the man who coined the phrase “THE GUILDED AGE”…….The author was….MARK TWAIN.
Thanks for the quote, Louis. “History repeats itself.” ; ) Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving.