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- Title: Once Upon A Time
- Author : Richard Harding Davis
- Release Date : January 08, 2017
- Genre: Self-Improvement,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1928 KB
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Of the school of earnest young writers at whom the word muckraker had been thrown in opprobrium, and by whom it had been caught up as a title of honor, Everett was among the younger and less conspicuous. But, if in his skirmishes with graft and corruption he had failed to correct the evils he attacked, from the contests he himself had always emerged with credit. His sincerity and his methods were above suspicion. No one had caught him in misstatement, or exaggeration. Even those whom he attacked, admitted he fought fair. For these reasons, the editors of magazines, with the fear of libel before their eyes, regarded him as a safe man, the public, feeling that the evils he exposed were due to its own indifference, with uncomfortable approval, and those he attacked, with impotent anger. Their anger was impotent because, in the case of Everett, the weapons used by their class in striking back were denied them. They could not say that for money he sold sensations , because it was known that a proud and wealthy parent supplied him with all the money he wanted. Nor in his private life could they find anything to offset his attacks upon the misconduct of others. Men had been sent to spy upon him, and women to lay traps. But the men reported that his evenings were spent at his club, and, from the women, those who sent them learned only that Everett treats a lady just as though she is a lady. Accordingly, when, with much trumpeting, he departed to investigate conditions in the Congo, there were some who rejoiced.
