THE POLLUTED BRAINS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE WAKE OF ELECTIONS.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Surely power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. Yet man needs power, power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. This gives no one the right to grow political power out of the barrel of a gun or riches, no wonder power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.