Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-28
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rent aumber Ut Meclure's has tol
!aned no his theme and exposed Is
appalling extern ID shich corruption
IL business ard politiez perneates .
ths ysry root Of our crate 4 well as
municipal life
The bunien Of responsibility Tor
the shameful slate of Affairs which IL
diseloses. the writer lays M al the
door of the politician but al that of
or captains 81 Industry. business
and politics he says. run in parallel
lines and between these We find the
highway Of the briber and boodIer.
Ha shoas now the bride giyer and the
bFibe tager-ihe boodler and the
bacser Of booiiers always travel in
lalfs and hoN the bride taker3
would have 10 60 out Of business but
Ter the agents If the powerful cor
porations whose money III corruyting
ne very springs Of establishment.
Nj recent magazine article has
created such general interest through.
out the country A. this latesf *.
-posnre III Mr.. Stefens. The follow
Ing rcsmue OF the article Is taken
from u New York dispatch 10 the
Chicago Record Herald and appeared
on the front page Of the latter on the
first day of The magazines appear
ance in New York:
NEW YORK. March 2s.-'The
highway Of corruption is the road
TO success Lincoln Stefens, expos
er Of graft IN municipal politics.
draws the deduction In the April Nc.
lcluress from his investigations Of
bribery and bribing. boodlers and
boodIing In the great cities Of the
United States. American corruption
4 the national sin, according To Mr..
stefens Politics Ii business. and
business IL politics. The despised
grating politicians il merely a cog in
the system. Back III the system u
the highly respectable captain Of In
dustrythe ideal Of American sue.
cess as Il Is painted.
With an iconoclasm that is almost
shocking Steifens dashes the .noisiest
heroes Of purity in the administration
II public affairs from their pedestals,
In his philosophy there Is no con,
founding Of business or professional
ethics with the evils Or the besetting
sin. Here is the respects he pays 10
the aforetime peerless leader VII.
liam Jennings Bryan:
William j. Stone, ex-governor Of
Missouri AMI United States senator.
and Colonel Phelps. after a long po-
litical friendship. quarreled once, and
Stone called Phelps a lobbyist. oh.
said Phelps, we both suck eggs. Stone
and |. but Stone, he hides the shells.
But | do not believe that Stone
handles brides. He is the other type,
the orator OF the people whose stock
in trade Is his influence; AN embez
zler Of power Folk called him once.
This antitrnst orator was hired by
the trust 70 bring action under the
trusts or alum law against his fel.
low citizens and thus install the for.
eign trust In the field Of d general
local industry DO YOU know who
said that None other than William
] Bryan arehdemocrat. arch.friend
of the people, arch.foe Of the trust
and that does excuse This political
treason III law and in business
Would Study Law First
y asked aiie vi Folks confessed
boodlers once whether, il he had Il
al to ao over aEain. IN would Doodle
again writes Mir stefens. Yes
b. said moushtfullt. but ! would
Study laN WHY asked so NJ
could take fees instead Of brides.
AZ said. without hnmor, In other
words he saw as Bryan saw and
Stone and the comercial world see.
that What i Aoodilng III politics i.
business in the practice Of the law
And the practice Of law Is business.
a Moral From Missouri.
Upon 81 Louis and Missouri MIR
stersns falls back II point Tho moral
I'm his generalizations anent corrup
ton lis relates;
10 you really call il wrong 70 buy
a switch asked a ST Louis business
man Even If III Ii necessary 10 your
business
Say said 4 politician. IL a rich
mugui comes along and shakes his
swag IN your face and asks for a
switch that be has q right 10 get, be,
enSe III ncels Il III MS business
wouldn't you grab on a piece On the
level nov wnnldnt yuuf