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"I think you'd better stick to the sheep business with Tim," Mackenzie advised, not unkindly, ashamed of his momentary weakness and scorn. "A man's prospects don't look very good back home when a bunch of parasites and grafters won't come over with a little loan." "They can go to the devil! I can live without them." "And get fat on it, kid.
He inspected the forged work papers, and jerked his thumb toward one of the hastily built cells where a doctor would look O'Neill over eventually. When Gordon and Jenkins came back, Murdoch tossed the money to them. "Split it. You guys earned it by keeping your hands off it. Anyhow, you're as entitled to it as he was or the grafters back at Police Headquarters. I never saw it.
But the war authorities gripped France with an iron hand. The military traitors and grafters are in jail. The weaklings in the official line have been cashiered. The politically undesirable have been given foreign missions. There was political as well as military wisdom in the return of the government from Bordeaux to Paris.
Think I'm going to see that bunch of holy grafters get away with the swag and us not climb in?" snorted old Henry. "Well, I don't like to do it. Kind of double-crossing." "It ain't. It's triple-crossing. It's the public that gets double-crossed.
This is the stage at which, this is the basis on which, most of the mining "investments" of America are made. In this state of affairs grafters find their opportunity. Prices in a boom camp are always above any sort of industrial warrant. There were literally millions of dollars poured into Goldfield and Tonopah for claims which never had any careful examination by competent men.
We had the best intentions when we started we still have but it's time to let the general sentiment cool. We thought we were doing a fine thing for the country in opening Alaska, but it seems we're regarded as thieves and grafters. One gets tired of abuse after a while." "Will you take an option on the S. R. can't help you, O'Neil, but rest assured we won't do anything to hinder you.
There's nothing very strange about this; it was common custom in the Middle Ages for lay and ecclesiastical seigneurs to make such compacts, but the marvel is that it has endured so well with governments rising and falling all about, and grafters and pretenders and dictators ruling every bailiwick in which they can get a foot-hold.
But, surrounded as they were by grafters, it was almost impossible for a man to keep straight. If he began by accepting little bribes, he ended, as he rose in power, by taking big ones, and finally he was in partnership with the chief rascals. The hideous system organized by the powerful men in Tammany Hall spread outward and downward, and at last all over the city.
"Your political machines and your offices are in the hands of peanut-politicians and grafters who are looking for what's coming to them. If you want anything, you have to pay them for it, just the same as in any other business. You face the same situation every hour 'Pay or quit." "Look," Curtiss went on, after a pause, "take our own case. Here we are, and we want to build a little railroad.
He will promise to do so, but he won't; but he knows I know he won't so that is all right. And in return he will present us with the Order of the Crescent of the third class." "Going up!" exclaimed Peter. "The third class. That will cost me my entire letter-of-credit." "Not at all," said Stimson. "I've saved you from the grafters. It will cost you only what you pay to have the books rebound.
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