Corruption in American politics and life

Corruption is repulsive. It deserves the scorn and hatred which all straightforward men feel for it and which nearly all writers on the subject have expressed. Conviction of its...

It has been thought worth while to go at some length into the criticism on purely economic grounds of the argument that corruption makes business good; first, because the argume...

Whether we are soon to get rid of the boss or not we are therefore bound to fight against any corruption that may develop as a result of his rule. Our present system is manifest...

Certain verbal difficulties must first be cleared away. Chief among these, perhaps, is the extreme levity with which the word is bandied about. One word, indeed, is not sufficie...

IV. The motive of a corrupt act must be _some advantage more or less directly personal_. The grosser the nature of the advantage sought and the more directly selfish the purpose...

(6) Certain cases in which political action is determined by corrupt considerations may be more effectively combated with moral than with legal sanctions. These are cases which...

Appointments to public office have been a fruitful field for corruption in many forms. In his “Civil Service in Great Britain,” Mr. Dorman B. Eaton sums up the whole history of...

The wisdom of some quasi-philosophic counsellors of ambitious youth expresses itself in the aphorism that in this world there are as many doors labelled “pull” as there are labe...

Even in dealing with those subjects concerning which a given paper is not honest with its readers great care must be exercised. So far as possible it must conceal the evidences...

It was unfortunately essential to the foregoing argument that the worst motives should be assumed on the part of college benefactors. Justice requires ample correction of this p...

Pre-eminent among the forms of business corruption are the vicious practices which have grown up in the general relation of buyer and seller. Purveyors of adulterated, infected,...

But it may be objected that public sentiment in a democracy will not support high salaries even for the most important public services, that democracies notoriously remunerate t...

Back of such neighbourhood ideas on taxation there are at least two lines of defence. One is that our present tax system is highly illogical, bothersome, and burdensome. To a co...

[60] For an overwhelmingly convincing presentation of materials on this point _cf._ the “Digest of Report by the Bureau of Municipal Research on the Administration of the Water...

The movement for publicity was preceded by much vigorous legislation against the bribery of voters and other abuses at the ballot-box, but as these subjects have been abundantly...

Next to contributions by corporations political contributions from candidates would seem to stand most in need of restriction. The English Corrupt and Illegal Practice Preventio...

Assuming publicity and other necessary restrictions of campaign funds to have been put into effect, the question may be raised as to whether business interests could secure prop...

[85] Following the four states which took action in 1897, Kentucky forbade corporate contributions in 1900. In 1905, Minnesota (ch. 291) made it a felony for an officer of a bus...

Whatever may be the extent of corruption in the United States it is under fire all along the line. Moreover we regard and attack as abuses practices which in other countries are...

Corruption, defined, 41-48; distinguished from inefficiency, 48-51; a persistent problem, 81; limited to certain branches or spheres of government, 100-104; contractual nature o...