A Member of the Third House: A Dramatic StoryGarland's third book, a novel with a muckraking, populist theme typical of his earlier works: a state legislature is corrupted by railroad magnates. |
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Page 198 - So long as legislators have the power to vote public values into private pockets the lobby will continue to exist, and its damning work will be seen in the ruin of men like Senator Ward and Mr. Davis ; for, as I conceive it, he is a victim of corruption as well as himself being a corrupting agent.