HP corruption Newspaper blog post

Today in class I was asked to look at newspaper articles from the past and pick out an interesting topic to further look into. I chose to look at corruption, a common word in newspapers back then showing the state our country was in. I chose the date range 1880-1900 to see what I could find, what I found was actually really interesting. I look at a newspaper in NewYork called the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on an article titled Sources of National Corruption. In this article it talked about key examples of corruption in that specific day and time. It discussed the corruption of government that was taking place. Powerful moneyed classes and monopolies were able to use their wealth to corrupt the system of government in place, there was a corrupt use of money in elections as well as a corrupt use to secure positions in high ranked legislation. The government had a failure to punish robbery due to bribery. The theft of presidency in 1876 due to Grant's establishment of the 38th state. Continuing there as the wholesale corruption of voters discussed in this article suppressing popular will that took place in 1880. A constant corruption took place by government officeholders through frauds for their own personal welfare and money. As well as the everlasting corruption of monopolies of powered moneyed men with enough wealth to influence the government into corruption. All in all it was pretty interesting to see what kinds of corruption our nation has gone through since the beginning, all prospering nations experience corruption stated this article, giving Great Britain as an example. Like the US has today it has prospered through this corruption and become a strong nation just like the article predicted.