Show c A PARTICULARLY rich nest of > Sclal corruption has been opened m San Francisco where a government govern-ment treasury officer reports that within the past ten years 86000000 worth of opium has been smuggled Into that port The business seems io have been carried on in a systematic I system-atic manner the officials being 30gnizant of the facts and receiving Surge dividends from the profits in ale way of bribes and hush money 2oo often these alleged discoveries are the mere reckless assertions of superenthusiastic persons who cannot back their charges by proof f the facts The government and the public should hold the treasury officer to his allegations and make Slim prove they correctness of his accusations If he knows enough to make the charges ho has enough information to sustain them by proof when ithe guilty can be punished or the responsibility for the failure placed where it belongs Something more than a promised i exposure should come from tho San Francisco business r I k = = |