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"He's a drunkard, and everything that means. But you taught him to drink before he could choose for himself." Mr. Wharton smiled sneeringly. "Admirable! I begin to see that you're more than a pretty woman. Get his sympathy; it's good business. Now he'll think he must act the man. But that will wear off. And understand this: you can't graft off me.
But to sit down and talk about the trusts, graft, trade unions, strikes, or the tariff or the navy, the Philippines, "the open door," or any other of the big questions that even then, ten years ago, were beginning to shake the country, and that we would all be voting on soon? No. The little Bryan club was a joke.
"Chief of Police Cooley is in reality chief collector. The police graft is one of the richest Stone has. The rake-off from saloons that are supposed to close at one and from crooked gambling joints and illegal resorts of various kinds, amounts, I suppose, to not less than ten to fifteen thousand dollars a week.
Whatever explanations may be offered for the prevalence of graft, the impotence of the Government at Richmond contributed to the general demoralization. In regions like Georgia and Alabama, the Confederacy was now powerless to control its agents.
Everywhere in England a New Englander is constantly meeting with names of families and places which remind him that he comes of a graft from an old tree on a new stock. I could not keep down the associations called up by the name of Gorges.
It is not a case of Enver and the rest carrying on their shoulders the unpopular Teuton; it is a case of the Teuton carrying the unpopular Committee. And Germany's graft is just this and nothing more that she has some hand in the coming of the new deliverer. 'They talk about the thing quite openly. It is called the Kaaba-i-hurriyeh, the Palladium of Liberty.
It was the editor's one great chance for graft, and he meant to work it until it was winded. The lottery was to open in Meander at ten o'clock; but long before that hour the quivering excitement which shook the fabric of Comanche had reached the tent where Mrs. Reed mothered it over the company of adventurers.
Graft and greed are the minor watchwords of success. Get money, anyway but get it. Is it surprising that cashiers graft, that aldermen graft, that city officials graft, that there's a very pandemonium of graft? Isn't it the way the other fellows get rich? All of a sudden the poison clogs the pores, and the infection blotches the surface and every one is horrified.
One of these days you will learn, to your cost, that men's judgment of a man is usually correct." "I wish he had legs," said Barbara. "I'd like to do Prometheus bound to the rock." Wilmot's disgust was intense. "Do you mean to say " he began, and then checked himself. "Why not have your father graft a pair on him? He's succeeded, by all accounts, in doing so for all sorts of beasts."
It is better for him to purchase regular nursery trees and to graft the cions on them; or he may put the cions in any older tree that is available. I have spoken of my own collecting of certain dessert apples. I "worked" them on young Northern Spy trees, purchased when two or three years old; they were grafted after they had stood a year in the orchard.
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