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Updated: May 19, 2025
I will endeavour with a few brief flourishes of the pen, to portray the various intricacies of his character as I see them, clearly and dispassionately with the eyes of a psychological observer, whose hand is uncorrupted by the bribes of ruthless profiteers, grafters and the like.
"Well, well, what next? But, after all, you can't blame them. We Americans come over here and hand them our pocket-books, and we ought to be glad if we get anything back at all. The way a man has to tip is something fearful." "Isn't it, though! I stayed in Dresden a week, and when I left there were six grafters lined up with their claws out. First came the porteer. Then came "
'The legislature is in special session there, and a couple of grafters more or less wont make no material difference they'll probably take us for members. Maybe Rochester, I says, 'which is a pleasant city, full of large and thriving industries. Maybe, I says, 'if this here train don't take a notion to climb down off the track and go berry-picking, maybe Chicago.
But love and pleasure without work are corroding. Children who are waited upon much become selfish. They soon become grafters, expecting and taking everything and giving nothing. This is immoral, for life is a matter of compensation, and consists in giving as well as in taking.
"It's all over," shrilled Mrs. Knight. "He won't have it. He's cut them off. He called me a a " Once more she choked in her rage; her teeth chattered. "Wait a minute," Jim cried, roughly. "Let's hear all about it before you bite somebody. Is Wharton sore?" "He's crazy. He said we trapped Bob. He called us grafters and thieves and blackmailing parasites " "Rats! Bob's got money of his own."
The general public never contacts the real circus people, just the ticket takers, ushers, and roustabouts. They never meet the managers and performers. And because grafters, shilabers, and skin-game artists follow circuses, the public thinks these are a part of it. It's only fair to circus people that this connection be denied."
For all this waste the convict must pay in privations and cruelties not authorized or contemplated by a government none too considerate at best; and men above grow fat and rosy gilled. But nothing is so difficult to prove or so easy to conceal as graft; all the ingenuity and resources of the grafters are primarily and undeviatingly devoted to covering their tracks.
The country was merely passing through a dark phase in its history, it was the era of the grafters. There would come a reaction, the rascals would be exposed and driven off, and the nation would go on upward toward its high destiny.
"Then I tell you," he said, and Barbara jumped impulsively to her feet and shook hands with him. "And I may come to you," he pleaded, "for advice, and help? Old habits are hard to shake. My friends are thieves, crooks, and grafters. My sources of income are not clean. Even now I have dishonest irons in the fire. Shall I pull them out?" "Of course." "But people who have trusted me will be hurt."
Many of the small grafters were on the pay-rolls of the railroad company, and Blount was soon definitely assured of what he had before only suspected that they were merely nominal employees given a pay-roll standing so that there might be an excuse for giving them free transportation, and a retainer in the form of wages, if needful.
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