Show eliminating GRAFT graft is of various kinds kind but the kind we are most familiar with is not getting our moneys worth no in public improvements some seara ago judge wesley 0 howard of new york enunciated the following choice observations about graft graft is a product of our times and institutions it is the people who are responsible sible for by pre prescript scriP tion thon they seem to have lost or to believe that they have lost their ti tle tie to integrity they expect graft and even spoil and booty to deplete their resources whenever any great undertaking is ventured by bv them and they look with complacence and toleration liberation and indifference at ravage upon their prosperity graft craft is as aa much an element to be reckoned with in computing the cost of public structure t a as U is cement or lumber I 1 it has come to be a matter atterb of course this rake off a loss recognized by all who make estimates of cost in such cues cases figure out what a private corporation like a railroad can construct a public undertaking for then add forty per cent for graft and you vou have the cost of the enter prise prim A public structure built honestly would be a freak we agree with the judge that this was the case cam once upon a time but times have changed at least a little for the better there was r no graft r it in the con esth st ruction of tf the F panama canal a for or instance ond end there going to be any in the construction of the governments railroad in alaska the judges defense of railroads railroad in bei being ng free of graft graf t was I 1 lather ather f farfetched ar no public properties have ever been milked like american railroads with ith an exceedingly few exceptions the same z 13 true as re gards other big corporations stock jun filing the freezing out pro cess resulting in the practice practical rob bery ot of thousands of stock holders in such institutions including will wid os and orphans and losses to legi jeer financial institutions is graft in the power but there is less of this to a day ay than in the olden days for one thing the public conscience is awake and it is insists on more honesty in both our private coro cor pora opra tiona and governmental fu bunc dioning la asies training crooked ness are more numerous and are at least partially enforced its a bet ter country were living in from the standpoint of graft graff eli mation and about that there is scarcely a doubt |