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A Public Official Refuses a Bribe

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 3, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 18.

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A Public Official Refuses a Bribe

By T.

Attorney-General Monnet, of Ohio, has received a good deal of attention through the newspapers because he refused a bribe of $400,000 from one of the leading monopolies of the country. By some it is considered a most wonderful thing that such a large fortune should be spurned, even when it is offered as a bribe. Is it because public officials who refuse bribes are so scarce that they are to be thus wondered at? This is indeed a seriously sad commentary on the condition of these times. T.