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Show Hoolaliaiu or lllackraall? Sun Francisco Examiner. Much of the corruption in our legislature legisla-ture bodies, state and municipal, conies from leaving too many points of contract con-tract between public and privato busij ncss. If somi-puolic corporations railroad, telegraph, telephone, gas, water and the like could bo abolished, leaving all public functions in the hands of the government on the one hand, and all strictly private citizens on the other, there would be fewer ppportunities for blackmail and bribery. |