Childs, Richard S., 297.
China, 102.
Church, the, 31, 36, 47, 66, 69.
Citizenship, education for, 36.
Civil service, Great Britain, 95-98;
in police departments, 190;
spoils system, 218;
and campaign contributions, 256.
Class war, 21, 29;
social interest _vs._ class interest, 293.
Cleveland, Grover, 107.
Colleges and universities, 48, 132, 139, 143.
Commissions, Public Service, 175.
Commons, Professor John R., 29.
Competition, 162.
Congressional appropriations for campaign expenses, 221.
Consensus of moral opinion on corruption, 58.
Contractual nature of corrupt practices, 106.
Corporation campaign contributions, 244.
Corporations, Bureau of, 175.
Corruption, defined, 41-48;
distinguished from inefficiency, 48-51;
a persistent problem, 81;
limited to certain branches or spheres of government, 100-104;
contractual nature of, 106;
minor forms of, 113;
classification of forms of, 116;
in professional life, 177;
in politics and business, 161, 169;
international, 170;
and the party organisation, 201;
decreasing in progressive countries, 299.
Crime and vice, 186.
Curtis, George William, 128.
Democracy, the corrupt machine as the saviour of, 17;
oligarchy _vs._, 26;
as means of establishing community of interest among the people,
30;
liability of, to corruption, 52, 54, 296.
“Democratic finance,” 182.
Democratic National Committee, Report 1908, 233;
time limit for contributions, 262.
Despotism, 51.
Dicey, Albert Venn, 175.
Dill, James B., 168.
Duty, political, 46, 51.
Eaton, Dorman B., 95-98, 205.
Economic evolution in relation to corruption, 52.
Economics, university instruction in, 139.
Education for citizenship, 36.
Efficiency, 14, 16.
England, 83, 95-98, 290, 295.
English Corrupt Practices Act, 248.
Europe, 30, 53, 74, 296.
Evolution, 22, 29, 33, 52.
Executive authorities, 56.
Family, the, 48, 66.
Finland, 83.
Fire departments, personnel of, 191.
Floquet, Charles, 71.
Folk, Joseph W., 64, 291.
Foote, Allen, Ripley, 197.
Ford, Professor Henry J., 17, 30, 57, 215, 219, 278.
Foreign vote in the United States, 31.
Franchises, Public Service, 11, 71, 73, 179.
Future, the social, 173.
Gambetta, Leon, 85.
“Gambling Commission,” New York, 106.
Gambling and vice, 6, 7, 8, 186.
Garfield Corrupt Practices Act, 249, 270.
George, Henry, 17.
Germany, 84, 85, 143, 290.
Ghent, W. J., 152.
Goodnow, Professor F. J., 9, 23, 25.
Graft, and other slang equivalents for corruption, 42.
Greece, 82.
Hadley, Arthur T., 266, 295.
Hapgood, Hutchins, 14.
Harvey, George, 131.
Hewitt, Abram S., 17.
Hobbes, Thomas, 82, 133.
Howard, C., 61.
Howe, Frederick C., 290, 295.
Immigrants, 31.
Inefficiency, 16, 48-51.
Intentional character of corruption, 48.
International corruption, 170.
Japan, 83, 102.
Journalism, 31, 121, 128, 279, 281, 284.
Judicial corruption, 56, 90, 92.
Justice, ideal of, 70.
Labour unions, 31;
leaders of, 14, 66.
Law, profession of, 121.
Legislation against corrupt practices (see also campaign
contributions), 75, 76.
Legislative corruption, 45, 56.
Machine, political (see also Boss, Party Organisation), 17, 20, 72.
Magee, Chris., 99.
Materialism, 53.
Mencius, 51.
Merriam, Professor C. E., 270.
Michels, Professor Robert, 179.
Mistresses, royal, 90.
Mob rule, 17, 66.
Monarchies, corruption in, as compared with democracies, 54.
Monopolies, contracting rings, 13;
era of consolidation, 163.
Moral uprisings, 188.
More, Paul Elmer, 153.
Muckraking, 281.
Municipal corruption, 83, 84, 98, 101, 184.
Municipal ownership, 13.
Municipal Research, Bureau of, 184.
Myers, Gustavus, 280.
Nast, Thomas, 280.
Nationality, development of, 58;
spirit of, 89.
Nature of political corruption, 41.
Negro vote, 36.
Nepotism, 65, 66.
New York city, 14, 17, 71, 98, 106, 108, 280.
Notoriety, corruption and, 277.
Ochlocracy, 17, 66.
Ogg, Frederick A., 235.
Ohio State Board of Commerce, 197.
Oligarchy, financial, 26, 54.
Party organisation, 30, 43, 72, 201, 213, 214.
Passes, railroad, 60, 230.
Pepys, Samuel, 93-95.
Persistent problem, corruption as a, 81, 85, 86.
Personal interest involved in corruption, 65.
Plato, 6, 87.
Plutocracy, 26, 74.
Poland, 82.
Police forces, 9, 21, 55, 190.
Political science, university instruction in, 139.
Politics, corruption not limited to, 46, 48;
corruption in business and, 161, 169.
Poole, Ernest, 280.
Presidential Campaign Costs, 1908, 233.
Press, the—see journalism.
Primaries and conventions, political contributions for, 270.
Privilege, special, 28, 290.
Professions, corruption in the, 117.
Professors, dismissal of, 147.
Proletariat, 18.
Prosperity and corruption, 5, 53.
Protectionism, 293.
Prussia, 54, 84, 101, 291.
Publicity, campaign fund, 229;
before or after election, 236;
and candidates, 239;
organisations reporting, 241.
Public Service Commissions, 175.
Public utility service, 28.
Quay, Matthew S., 14.
Railroads, nationalisation of, 181;
passes, 60, 230.
Reform and reformers, 5, 11, 57, 75, 84, 100, 105, 287.
Reformation, the, 82, 84.
Republican National Committee, Report 1908, 233.
Richmond, Mary E., 22.
Riots, 19, 20, 66.
Roberts, Peter, 34.
Rome, 82, 89.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 65, 221, 225.
Root, Elihu, 244.
Ross, Professor Edward A., 167, 302.
Russia, 83.
Salaries of public officials, 177.
Salisbury, Lord, 84.
Sandwich, Lord, 93.
Schools, public, 23, 31, 36.
Schurman, Jacob G., 146.
Seeley, Professor J. R., 51, 88.
Settlements, social, 36.
Seward, William H., 71.
Shaw, Bernard, 288.
Short Ballot, 297.
Simkhovitch, Mary K., 69.
Sin and news, 284;
“smokeless” sin, 286.
Slang equivalents of corruption, 42.
Social groups, interrelations, 66;
individual interests and, 86.
Socialism, 57, 152, 179.
Society, the corrupt machine as the saviour of, 17;
corruption as evidence of maladjustment in, 23;
sweeping charges of corruption against, 57;
responsible in part for existing corruption, 70;
disintegrating effect of corruption upon, 81, 299;
forms of corruption in, 116, 161;
future of, 173;
fundamental strength of institutions of, 301.
Sociology, university instruction in, 139.
Spain, 84.
Special privileges, 28, 290.
Spencer, Herbert, 91.
State, welfare of the, contrasted with local welfare, 7;
corruption not confined to the state, 46;
caritative function of, 70;
Greek classifications of, 87;
primarily political forms of corruption, 169;
international corruption, 170.
State universities, 143.
Steffens, Lincoln, 4, 99, 278.
Stein, Freiherr vom, 101.
Swinton, John, 122.
Taft, William H., 236.
Tammany Hall, 17, 108.
Tax dodging, 60, 192.
“Ten per cent. rake-off,” 105.
Tennyson, Lord, 100.
Thompson, David G., 108.
Tweed, William M., 14, 98, 280.
United States, suppression of vice in, 9;
riots in, 19;
integration of population in, 31;
vote buying in, 36;
political morality of, compared with Europe, 53, 296;
uneven distribution of corruption in, 104;
academic freedom in, 143;
_laisser faire_ doctrine in, 175;
party functions in, 213;
costliness of government in, 215;
privilege in, 290.
Universities and colleges, 48, 132, 139, 143.
Vice, gambling and, 6, 7-8, 186.
Virtue, political, 53, 54, 296.
Walpole, Horace, 83.
Ward, Professor Lester F., 122.
Washington, D. C., 253.
Wealth, growth of, 53.
Weed, Thurlow, 71.
Wendell, Professor Barrett, 285.
Wheatley, Henry B., 94, 95.
White, William Allen, 296.
“Wide-open” communities, 7, 298.
Wood, Fernando, 188.
Transcriber’s Notes
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pg 87 Changed: as the Philospher saw it
to: as the Philosopher saw it
pg 94 Changed: contemporaries in the adminstrative
to: contemporaries in the administrative
pg 124 Changed: Advertising colums still carry
to: Advertising columns still carry
pg 148 Changed: consequences of the dismisal
to: consequences of the dismissal
pg 219 Changed: the sale of politicial influence
to: the sale of political influence
pg 266 Changed: offered by large compaign contributions
to: offered by large campaign contributions