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Updated: June 6, 2025
The king tortured him six days, cut him up, and sent pieces of him to fifty villages with the message: 'You eat each other. We eat white chop. That was ten miles from our model barracks." For some moments the muckraker considered the statement thoughtfully. "You mean," he inquired, "that the atrocities are not all on the side of the white men?" "Atrocities?" exclaimed the trader.
For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth. His interest was in crime. Not in crimes committed in passion or inspired by drink, but in such offences against law and society as are perpetrated with nice intelligence.
From his own father's tragedy, caused by graft, his own hard struggles in the West and the Populist doctrines he had imbibed, he had come East with a deep conviction that "things in this country are one big mess with the Constitution sitting on top." And when the term "muckraker" came into use, I remember his deep satisfaction. "Now I know my name," he said. He was equally hard on the church.
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