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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stolen from the municipality by an employee, means more sickness, greater misery and poverty, fewer transportation facilities, lack of protection to the weak, lack of education to the young, loss of opportunity to the individual. Be- Poiiticai graft- cause ne is trusted the grafter saps the sub- ing less profit- stance of the community. By using a part able than o( nis Ul-gotten gains for purposes of dis- pnva e play, he poses before the community as the conservator of order, the guardian of public health, the monitor of public education and recreation, and the controller of public convenience; he then asks for a vote of confidence that he may again be placed in a position to abuse his trust. In these several capacities agents of government must also say how private business shall be conducted, and in the exercise of this power they are given charge of the dispensing of privileges in the nature of monopolies by the use of which one set of private individuals and corporations may be enriched, while others may be oppressed or impoverished. It is to this form of grafting that public attention has been especially directed. THE GRAFTER EXISTS BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE TO HIS EXISTENCE In motive the grafter is anti-democratic and anti-social. So far as he himself is concerned he seeks to pervert both the private and the public cooperative social plan; he is truly individualistic and selfish. Though anti-democratic and anti-social in motive he is not anarchistic ? he would not destroy social organization more than the lichen would destroy the oak. Organized society is his opportunity; he recognizes it as his natural resource. Complexity of organization, comprehensiveness of modern group life and group activity, is the condition favorable. As the great awkward draft hors...
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