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Updated: May 19, 2025
The messenger rode up to the dean and said, "Please, sir, master would be obliged if you would tell him who you are." "Willingly," replied the dean. "Tell your master I am the person that bowed to him when we were giving our horses water at the brook yonder." Swift's interests lay rather with the common people than with the Irish aristocracy, who, he thought, were arrant "grafters."
Thus, to take a crude example, the New York Police, which is, without doubt, learned in its own world, and well-adapted and equipped for asserting its authority there, sometimes intrudes, with its well-known bonhomie, into the worlds of drama and sculpture, and, because it is an acknowledged judge of crooks and grafters, presumes to be a judge and censor also of new plays and nude statues.
"I don't see it," said Milsom, "the fellow's a crook, all these Yankee detectives are grafters. He saw a chance of a big rake off and took it, fifty-fifty of a million fortune is fine commission!" "You're wrong. I'd like to think as you do. Man! Can't you see that his every action proves that he knows all about the Green Rust?" "Eh?" Milsom sat up. "How what makes you say that?"
He smoked his pipe reflectively as I wrote out the letter to the Bank Manager, asking him to send up two men to count over Jake's hoard and take it back with them, giving him a receipt to cover. "Know any good lawyers, George? Most of them ginks are grafters from away back, so I've heard, but I guess maybe there's one or two could do a job on the level." "Of course there are, Jake.
It's hard to say which crowd is the more worthless, the college amateurs at politics or these rotten old in-goods who can't get employment with either Kelly or House and, so, have joined us. By Jove, I'd rather be in with the out and out grafters the regulars that make no bones of being in politics for the spoils. There's slimy hypocrisy over our crowd that revolts me.
Everybody in camp knows that me an' the kid is on the square an' that we're gettin' the hunk passed to us. Now, this lawyer party must get away to- night or these grafters will hitch the horses to him on some phony charge so he can't get to the upper court. It 'll be him to the bird-cage for ninety days. He's goin' to the States, though, an' he's goin' in your wagon! I'm talkin' to you man to man.
And makin' a lot of grafters out of our poor class. Look at this Labor Commissioner and his new-fangled nonsense. Nagging me to spend Lord knows how many thousands, making the plant pretty and attractive for the hands. Voted for the fellow, too." "I never heard of such a thing. What sort of things does he want you to do, papa?" "Turkish baths and manicures and chicken sandwiches, I guess.
When you clear your American cities of grafters, and purify your politics, then perhaps you will be in a position to redeem the Indian service, and only then. Alas! the skirts of the Goddess of Liberty have never yet been quite clean! The Indian is no fool; on the other hand, he is a keen observer and an apt student.
The story went on to relate how Medcroft, implacable leader of the opposition to the "grafters," suddenly had appeared before the committee with the most astounding figures and facts to support his charges of rottenness on the part of the "clique"; his unexpected descent upon the scene had thrown the opposing leaders into a panic; every one had been led to believe that he was sojourning in the east.
By pirates are meant the dishonest dealers, the grafters, the vice caterers, the unscrupulous competitors, the pilers-up of exorbitant profits at the expense of employees and public; by prodigals, the spendthrift rich, the wasters of wealth, those who lavish in luxury or ostentation money that is sorely needed by others; by parasites, the idle rich, the lazy poor, the tramps, all who take, but do not give a return of honest work.
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