A Study of Muck-raking in Four Popular MagazinesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1921 |
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... The men with the muck - rakes are often indispensable to the Well - being of society ; but only if they know when to stop taking the muck , and to look upward to the celestial crown above them , to the crown of worthy endeavor . There ...
... The men with the muck - rakes are often indispensable to the Well - being of society ; but only if they know when to stop taking the muck , and to look upward to the celestial crown above them , to the crown of worthy endeavor . There ...
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1906 Cosmopolitan Addicks Aldrich Alfred Henry Lewis American Magazine April Armour Baker vol Beef Trust Bucket Shop chapter Chicago corporation corruption COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE crime of Amalgamated criminal deals December describes discussed dollars editor's note Edwin Lefevre election entitled Everybody's Magazine Everybody's vol Everybody's vol.11 evils Express Monopoly facts February fight Finance Lawson Everybody's Flynt Frenzied Finance Lawson graft Henry H Ibid industry instalment interests investigation July June labor land Lincoln Steffens March McClure's Magazine McClure's vol methods millions Miss Tarbell monopoly muck muck-raking muckraking articles Norcross November October organization Owners of America pany Phillips political pool-room profit published railroads Ray Stannard Baker rebates refrigerator car Rockefeller Rogers Roosevelt Russell vol says Senate series of articles shows Sinclair Standard Oil company sugar tariff telephone tell things thousand tion Upton Sinclair vivid votes writer written York
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Page 11 - Capitalists, workingmen, politicians, citizens— all breaking the law or letting it be broken.
Page 11 - Too many of them so respect the laws that for some "error" or quibble they restore to office and liberty men convicted on evidence overwhelmingly convincing to common sense. The churches? We know of one, an ancient and wealthy establishment, which had to be compelled by a Tammany hold-over health officer to put its tenements in sanitary condition. The colleges? They do not understand. [There is no one left; none but all of us.