When a taxpayer of a municipality in this country reads in his morning newspaper that a contract has been let for a public improvement costing one million or more, he naturally says: "More 'graft' for the politicians."
So inbred has become this idea of "Commercialism in Politics" and public life that every office-holder, be he honest or dishonest, is certain that his public acts are being watched by the two "R's"- reporters and reformers. When a contract involving the expenditure of thirty-five millions of public money has been carried out to the letter and practically on time, the wonderment of the public is so great as to excite general curiosity. These questions are naturally asked:
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