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measured by thousands where they stole millions, and the unearned increment in the fortunes of cer­tain political leaders of to-day and yesterday can be traced back to such diverse and subsidiary transac­tions as taking a percentage from gamblers and prostitutes, or a fortunate and extremely silent part­nership in contracting firms dealing with the city or with corporations dependent for franchises on municipal favor.

"The percentage of honest men in Tammany Hall is probably higher now than in the days of Croker, certainly higher than in the days of Tweed or Fer­nando Wood; and the improvement in public morals has affected even the reform movements. They are no longer, as they were apt to be in the forties and fifties, about as bad as Tammany. They no longer can be bought off by judicious distribution of offices to their leaders, as sometimes happened in the sixties and seventies; nor, in spite of the recent declama­tions of enthusiastic Republican leaders, are they as likely to make themselves impotent by divisions and quarreling as they were in the eighties and nineties. It is perhaps a matter for dispute whether stupidity and incompetence is an improvement on venality, but there is no doubt that there is a great deal of mere stupidity to-day where in similar conditions even twenty years ago there would have been cor­ruption.

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