Upton Sinclair

“ One might call him Alf Raymond's journalistic jackal; there was no job too dirty for him.
"But," cried Hal, "he told me he was correspondent for the Western press association!"
"He's that, too," replied Billy.
"But does the press association employ spies for the 'G. F. C.'?"
The reporter answered, drily, "When you understand the news game better, you'll realise that the one thing the press association cares about in a correspondent is that he should have respect for property. If respect for property is the back-bone of his being, he can learn what news is, and the right way to handle it." ”

“ The old Scotchman went on to explain that he had been elected justice of peace, and had tried to break up the business of policemen taking money from the women of the town; he had been forced to resign, and his enemies had made his life a torment. ”