Word: graftings
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...William H. Langdon, District Attorney of San Francisco, gave an interesting lecture on "The Battle against Graft in the Cities" in the Living Room of the Union last evening...
...Graft comes into existence when public officials, elected to represent the best interests of the people, forget their trust, become selfish, take what does not belong to them and aid and abet evil institutions. This is more than treason, it is a crime against government itself. It means the paralysis of the democratic spirit of a community and the tendency of good men to be indifferent to its welfare...
...public improvements growing out of the awakened appreciation of their social value would probably absorb all the saving. It is most probable that for a long time to come public spirit will cheerfully carry the present burden of taxation if the expenditure only reaches its destination undiminished by graft and the incapacity of officials. We must remember that the modern treatment of established theories of property has given us some rather startling shocks. In the preface to his "Life of Gladstone," John Morley says "a firm and trained economist and no friend of Socialism, yet by his legislation upon land...
...Honorable William H. Langdon, District Attorney of the County and City of San Francisco, will give a lecture on "The Battle against Graft in the Cities," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...powerful reform figure in the politics of the Far West. A public executive of exceptional organizing ability, he has surrounded himself with the best expert talent of the nation and in less than two years has been responsible for redeeming the City of San Francisco from the clutch of graft and corruption. At various times he has held a nomination for public office from every political party in San Francisco-Democratic, Republican, Independence League, Union Labor and Non-Partisan-and in turn he has broken with every party, "boss," or organization which has tried to restrict the free...