Show PATRIOTISM AND COMMERCIALISM Justice ustice Howard of N Y Supreme Court Says the Latter Has Crowded the Former Out GRAFT EXISTS EVERYWHERE At AL Least I 40 Per Pcr Cent or of All Mi Money noney Appropriated for Public Use Uso Is 1 So Lost V Troy lroy N T Y Dec 28 Tho ago o of pa i has ba yielded to tho the age ae of ot com commercialism cpi Uppermost in the human h mind today Is b not tho the stars stare and stripes striPe but tho the dollar mark Such was nos tho the declaration of ot Court Justice Wesley O 0 Harvard In an opinion today tOdo reducing the compensation tion of or o member of or o a no commission ap up appointed pointed to appraise damages to proper property ty resulting from tho the construction of ot the Ashokan reservoir in Ulster county whIch is to furnish a 0 water lter supply ply for New cw York city elt While hill the th commission furnishes K awe twe e for the reckless escape of ot many there are aro other lither channels of oC leakage and waste tully fully as a appalling sold said Justice Howard it oft Is te 8 greatly to be regretted that no public enterprise can bo be projected and consummated without this appalling loss called graft grait Graft Craft Is not necessarily necessarily an nn illegal expenditure of money but It is that unnecessary wasteful uso use that characterizes the construction of oC every tery public venture At least 40 JO per percent percent percent cent of all money appropriated for pub public publIc lic lie uto u o Is lost In graft gratt All things could be lie le If It this frightful leak could be bo stopped road canals libraries ns asylums lumb lums and hospitals Graft is as OB much an clement to toe be e reckoned with in ir computing the tho cost of ot a n public structure as Is cement or lum lurn lumber bar ber r It has come coPle to be bo a matter of ot loss recognized thy by all who mal maize e estimates ot of cost In Euch cases A house structure built f honestly would bo ho a freak frcak t |