The Battle Against Bribery: Being the Only Complete Narrative of Joseph W. Folk's Warfare on Boodlers, Including Also the Story of the Get-Rich-Quick ... in the Missouri Legislature (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Battle Against Bribery: Being the Only Complete Narrative of Joseph W. Folk's Warfare on Boodlers, Including Also the Story of the Get-Rich-Quick Concerns and the Exposure of Bribery in the Missouri Legislature

That vine that found root in St. Louis, the name of which was bribery, had thrust its soft and leech-like feelers into every department of the city government before the people were aware of its existence, and was hugging the municipality in a death embrace.

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