Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better governed than those which have an unrestricted suffrage. Nation, xxxiv, 245, 267 (Mar. 23, 30, 1882); Shaw: Municipal Government in Great Britain, 45, 77; New Review, 11, 74, 499 (July, Nov., 1894); Forum, 17, 659 (Aug., 1894). - (a) Municipal government in the United States is extravagant, inefficient and corrupt. - (b) European cities, having property qualification are economically and efficiently governed...
...military history that surprises the students who only lately have had access to her literature. The Chinese, on the other hand, have not been looking forward to war. Her people are traders and merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost self-evident to those who understood affairs in the East. It is not the Chinese soldier who is at fault, but the whole theory of the government...
...working of the Gothenburg system: New Eng. Mag. XI, 785-797. - (1) This plan if extended to malt liquors would offer a satisfactory solution of the liquor problem. - (x) It takes away the incentive to large sales. - (y) Liquor saloons would cease to be the headquarters for corrupt politicians. - (z) Saloons would cease to be centres for violation of laws...
What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...
...temptation and opportunity for corrupt rings to secure this office will be increased...