The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. CORRUPTION IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7951, 14 October 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. CORRUPTION IN AMERICA.

Tho o.xistwice of a ptrcnnial crop uf linancial scandals in Aun'rica Is friv • jiiiMitly a suurtv of wonder to those j who live in countries uherv tho race j fur the almig-hty ■dollar is not the I chief end and ajtu ol -exiMvnce. There ar» also other factor.s in American corruption which to Home extent at \ h-ast account lor the "ruwlatioiis''* j wl>i» h ev t? ry now and again -burst cm j the world. Apart from tho prime j causH that thu il»»sire for money is j !»e- ner in America than i»l.sewheiv t \ and that questionable and even tin* : MTU|Hj]<itis inethwls iff gelling it are more readily condoned, the political »Mem is n.-sj>onsil)le for no small -in thif unenviable financial M\infkils. That s\s*tei» not imlv il easy for the few to ii-miifMilat.' thn mnny, but insists fiu'l all oilicials shall quit ofliee on j .'.e h chang-4* of Administration, thus ' |»iiuing l,H«>re ilwm a terrible lejnp { tiiinn. in which noti a itw sur- • tuiiil). Possibly Urn reason win ! oIT.-nCf.s are so readil\ oomlon- | .-I it, most cases is the fad thai Mb- 1 s;thirit-s an* wrelchi-tily inad- ' c»'|)i;«t»*. t)e* t«'i 111 )'•' of oHici' iinc»-r----i tain aiul tift.it bri«»f, while tht-y enl j"\ no ftoeial s*t;<!i*s. and are con- ; >l.ir.tl\ siilm.-cI to pri>sN»ii - f from : w.Jhoiji such as brought to beat' , r, <i ih.- officials and [)<j|iticians of j n.» ..iht-r land. During tin- past lwr> » or ihny y»-ai'» America has s.m I ait I'Xe. fd it,-ha! svquenr.» of M»»iS"a- ■ I'.ioaal "ivvclat ions." S«»m«> xvi ck:* i »jyo it was discoven J'that an o/tici- j ai in the Agricultural Departiii-mu , I wiv.i-ll |Mr|>iilvs til., r.-purts anil iMi- ; iiintes of the cot 11 m crop, whs en- : gag»i] in >eiiiug thv (Mlvance information to brokers on the Kxehgngv. ' j Vnv this lb» was subsequently in- * dieted, and two intermediaries wore J ane^ie<L i'or the past six months and more, says the London Morn iiig I'o.st, America has been absorbed by the disclosures of gross irregularities in the management of wno oil thy largest insurance companies ini the cuumrv. Within the last two I years there havo bivn three expos- | ures of gigantic stock company frauds, each oiiu of thorn worthy to rank 'in rascality with the worst we ha\ e ever known—anil ue have Lnown fcenne pretty bavl ones—in Kngland. Since I'.MKi thnv I'nited States Senators have been indicted and two of them convicted. It is b-»b than three yearn since the National I'oH.Oflicr was found to -be a tjesf of jobbery and corruption. Philadelphia at thib moment has only partially, am! by the most heroic measures, loosened the holtJ ol a band of robljerj,: The present CJoVernor of Missouri «n\es his posi-. ti'rn simply to tlu< courage with which as District Attorney he exposed th« rottenness of the fJovern-.Ui-jiit of St. Louis. Oidy -«v few d;\ys ago the JMstriet Attorney of New V«.rk declared that the city's police foiw was as bad as ever. hone.\-

ii mlnil with corrupt ion anil black-, I mail, anil in format league vith thieves and murderers. 1 It is impossible to pick lip* an American newspaper ; from 'whatever State Without liniling it lill.-il Willi the-do tails of some local scandal. Arkansas. fo< example. Iran recently indicted four .Si.ite Senators and two Representatives for bribery. Tin. Caliluinia Seilat.- has expelled four oi its members lor the same cause. Kansas has appropriated jLliimu („ firolt*■ well-groinr 1.-d r.-ports of ollicia! ili-'lnniesty I "iiisiarra is strugK"i'"K " ei-adieai. blackmail and the protection of ciiim- from the New Orleans police lore-. Texas is tr\ii.f! lo round np a ban.l of car line "irralieis." Wisconsin, after expellin.it a member of I lie Si-na-te, has indicted t Went \ -one members of I he .\1 ll w aill. -A- .Mnnieipal Itoot'.l. Oregon is l.usy investpaling lantl frauds. South Carolina has .-a hand a liquor dispensary .scandal, i\hile Inaska, .Minnesota. ,\,-u .lers.-y, C'onneeiinii. West Virginia. Ohio. am | Indiana have ear], ot,.| all "revc-la-t lons to ileal Willi of greater or lesn mairnitiiil.-. The list is all the more appallim.' for the reason iliat almost e\.-r.\ item on il is -directly connected either with polities or official ■administration. L'ndvr existing cir-ciim.stanis-K the wonder is not so mm h that/ corriipiion exists, l,»t ratle-r that it is in i far more rampant. Apparently tlui disease is breaking out ill Auslra'ia. hut ne trust 'hat New Zealand will In;as free iffiu il iu the lutui-'j as in tl»c past-

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