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On The Shame of the Cities.
I'VE been readin' a book by Lincoln Steffens on 'The Shame of the Cities'.
Steffens means well but, like all reformers, he don't know how to make distinctions.

He can't see no difference between honest graft and dishonest graft and, consequent, he gets things all mixed up.

There's the biggest kind of a difference between political looters and politicians who make a fortune out of politics by keepin' their eyes wide open.

The looter goes in for himself alone without considerin' his organization or his city.