Chapter I: Apologies for Political Corruption

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Introduction:—Corruption not defensible on the ground
of the strength and prevalence of temptation 3

Four main lines of apology 4

That corruption makes business good 4

Protection of vice 5

Corrupt concessions to legitimate business 10

That corruption may be more than compensated for
by the high efficiency otherwise of those who engage
in it 14

That corruption saves us from mob rule 17

That corruption is part of an evolutionary process the
ends of which are presumed to be so beneficent as
to more than atone for the existing evils attributable
to it 22

Conclusion: The probable future development of corruption
in politics, the failure of the apologies for
political corruption 37