kill a common man was murder—to kill a king was regicide. You have got to see that for one man to rob another man is bad enough; for a man to rob the public is worse; but to rob the public through the government is a kind of high treason which—if you still punished by torture— would be deserving of the most excruciating kind. As it is you have allowed the practice to become so common that it is scarcely condemned at all—you do not even call it robbery; you call it 'graft' —or 'pork'—or a 'plum tree'—or some such polite term."
With Her in Ourland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
