The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-07-07
The CRATER is double william.
he essential element of o raft ,s

The CRATER is duuble william.
The essential element of graft Is 1
breach OF trust.
Graft is well nigh universal
We meet II in its various forms every
where. It's most common form, how
ever, is the illicit use of power OF au
| thority. The legislator who is inhu
enced ny the Argument which appeal
10 MS pocket rather than to his sens
oil civic obligation. practices form o
graft which Is dangerous TO the CON
munlty. The puOuc is awakened now
to the danger of this man We know
hlm we understand him. Some day,
and none too soon, we shall refuse t.
vote Tor him, and then he will pass
away.
Another form for graft il that OF
the bank Off lal the officer IN a
imam clal institution who is influenced
in the use Of the funds of the inst,tu.
ton by any reason other than the good
of the Institution. Such man is
dangerous to the community dan
geIous as the political grafrer-but we
do not always recognize him. His
position is 50 high and ms form of
graft is so insidious that its existence
otttl mes is not suspected until the ex
losiOn resulting from his grating has
injured the community ana made the
man and his practices notorious; but
too late.
The director of cOrD)r4tIon who
directs the affairs of company from
the viewpoint Of his own pocket
rather than from the standpoint of the
stockaolde' " tas5 although he
nay not no ,nulc,4l i j. Grand Jury,
IS none the less a social highwayman.
And this crime is common. 1t is
az every day occurrence. 1t is an
ordinary form of graft
There Is ground for the assertion
that h3itusB tne men who do these
things ale too high up, because tnev
have too much money and too much
influence back of them. their acts are
designated operations rather than
crimes and as such they are APP
plauded. not punished.
The dummy director of great
company who dummyizes himself for
pay whether by the year OF by the
Job, who uses ms posi- zion TO control
the use and disposition of other peoples
money for personal gain is in no POSI-
ton to cIiticise the clerk who falsifies
his accounts or the employee who en-
beetles, Yet we all know of instances
where men who have stolen a million
have sent to Jail employees who took
only hundreds or thousands of dollars
Now whose fault is this? 1t Is
ours. 1t is the fault of public cplnIon,
and public opinion is our opinion,
yours and mine, yours of me, mine of
you, ours of all the rest. We have to
learn to recognize graft and the graf
ter, however respectable their disguise,
and to punish them. not aIons by
imprisonment and fine. but with all
the might of the terrible scorn of
society. We have to recognize that the
sseds of socia lism, anarchy and rev
olutlon are sown by the man of our
own class and kind who pretends to
be what he is not; they are cultivated
by the bank and the insurance officer.
by the man in power in financial or
CARNATIONS, IN short ny any CRATER
who in his dealings with the public
departs openly or secretly from old
fashioned Ten Commandment honesty.
THE CONSEQUENCES
TO THE CRATER
"W9 need, we must have char ct r.
"Many men of education, of powe-,
financial and political seem to develop