The Supreme Court. in the eloquent words of Justice Miller. admonishes us: If the Government of the UniteA States has within its constitutional domain no authority to provide against these evils. if the very source of power may be poisoned by corruption or controlled by violence and outrage without legal restraint. then indeed is the country in danger. and its bestpowers. its highest purposes. the hopes which it Inspires. the love which enshrines it. are at the mercy of the combinations ofthose who respect no right but brute force on the one hand and unprincipled corruption on the other. The government of the great cities under universal suffrage is the most serious problem of the North and West. The stream of immigration swells the vicious and criminal elements of their population. New York City in the days of Tweed. the corrupt elections of San Francisco and St. Louis in recent years. a repetition of fraudulent elections in Chicago and Baltimore prove that the massof good citizens in our great cities forget their municipal obligations and surrender not only to local misgovernment. but at the same time surrender the machinery of national elections to corrupt control. to bribery and fraud.
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Immigrants swell the vicious and criminal elements of the population.