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Graft in the San Francisco Relief Fund

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Aug 8, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 3.

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Graft in the San Francisco Relief Fund

The San Francisco relief fund would hardly have been so large had the people throughout the country supposed for a moment that they were donating to a fund of several million dollars to be exploited by what the world calls "graft." It is said that goods being transported from depositories to camps and hospitals have disappeared by the drayload. But a still larger draft on the fund is the array of highly-paid officials and assistants of all grades employed to do the distributing of the huge charity.