Corruption in American Politics and LifeDodd, Mead, 1910 - 309 sider |
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Side 11
... hands of boodlers , contractors , and poli- ticians . As the latter could not establish the most perfect title to the rights and franchises they sell they are often inclined to fix prices much below real values . Hence a chance for ...
... hands of boodlers , contractors , and poli- ticians . As the latter could not establish the most perfect title to the rights and franchises they sell they are often inclined to fix prices much below real values . Hence a chance for ...
Side 19
... hand , fall into the gross error of regarding them as deliber- ate revolutionary attacks upon the existing social order . With such circumstances confronting us , what shall be said of the alleged utility of the corrupt machine as prime ...
... hand , fall into the gross error of regarding them as deliber- ate revolutionary attacks upon the existing social order . With such circumstances confronting us , what shall be said of the alleged utility of the corrupt machine as prime ...
Side 37
... from political corruption are either illusory or minimal . On the other hand the re- sultant evils are great and real , although , no doubt , they have often been exaggerated by sen- sational 37 Apologies for Political Corruption.
... from political corruption are either illusory or minimal . On the other hand the re- sultant evils are great and real , although , no doubt , they have often been exaggerated by sen- sational 37 Apologies for Political Corruption.
Side 43
... hand , the current ac- cusations of corruption are to be taken at anything like their face value , it becomes difficult to avoid the pessimism that sees nothing but rottenness in our social arrangements and despairs of all con ...
... hand , the current ac- cusations of corruption are to be taken at anything like their face value , it becomes difficult to avoid the pessimism that sees nothing but rottenness in our social arrangements and despairs of all con ...
Side 50
... hand inefficiency also may spread by imitation , although perhaps more slowly , since it is not immediately profitable , until the whole service of government is weakened . Moreover inefficiency may develop by a very natural process ...
... hand inefficiency also may spread by imitation , although perhaps more slowly , since it is not immediately profitable , until the whole service of government is weakened . Moreover inefficiency may develop by a very natural process ...
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Side 123 - Correspondingly, he advances the honor of his profession and the best interests of his client when he renders service or gives advice tending to impress upon the client and his undertaking exact compliance with the strictest principles of moral law.
Side 213 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Side 221 - The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money.
Side 125 - I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "independent press." We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.— John Swinton.
Side 232 - If I am elected President I shall urge upon Congress, with every hope of success, that a law be passed requiring a filing in a federal office of a statement of the contributions received by committees and candidates in elections for members of Congress, and in such other elections as are constitutionally within the control of Congress.
Side 120 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Side 102 - Let your reforms for a moment go ! Look to your butts, and take good aims ! Better a rotten borough or so Than a rotten fleet and a city in flames...
Side 136 - Neighbours, of familiar acquaintance, as having the Faculty of discoursing readily, and plausibly, seem wiser and better learned in cases of Law, and Conscience, than themselves. And the Divines, and such others as make shew...
Side 231 - political committee" under the provisions of this act shall include the national committees of all political parties and the national Congressional campaign committees of all political parties and all committees, associations, or organizations which shall in two or more States influence the result or attempt to influence the result of an election at which Representatives In Congress are to be elected.
Side 232 - I urgently recommend to Congress that a law be passed requiring that candidates in elections of Members of the House of Representatives, and committees in charge of their candidacy and campaign, file in a proper office of the United States Government a statement of the contributions received and of the expenditures incurred in the campaign for such elections, and that similar legislation be enacted in respect to all other elections which are constitutionally within the control of Congress.