The Editor, Ellen F. Fitzpatrick is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. She has published many articles on women's history and social reform. Lincoln Steffens was one of the leading muckrakers. He wrote many articles exposing municipal corruption. Ida M. Tarbell wrote articles exposing Rockefeller. Ray Stannard Baker was involved in exposing railroad and financial corruption. These three journalists joined together to establish American Magazine.

After three terms as mayor of Minneapolis, "Doc" Ames reformed. Corrupt he was indeed. He took all the honors, and left all the spoils for his followers, or reformed administration. Ames had new plans for the city of Minneapolis. He turned the city over to outlaws, who were directed by the police to profit for the Ames administration. "Doc" Ames chose his brother, Colonel Fred W. Ames as chief of his administration. Colonel Ames had once commanded a Minnesota regiment in the Philippines, where he was proved to be a coward under fire. Mayor Am

In April 1902, the grand jury was selected, and Hovey C. Clarke was named foremen of the grand jury. Hovey C. Clarke hired many of local detectives to help destroy Ames's gang. He made an acquaintance with the jailer who was a friend of Megaarden. He was going to use the testimonials of two prisoners to get the indictment of Gardner and Norbeck. After they were convicted Clarke would make his way up to Mayor Ames's indictment. Fred Ames was sentenced to six and a half years in jail. Mayor Ames was under indictment for extortion, conspiracy, and bribe offering. He left the state and went to West Baden, which was a health resort in Indiana.

Sheriff Megaarden made some arrests of gamblers, which caused Ames's people to turn on him. Megaarden was removed from office. Mayor Ames needed to find a new sheriff, so he offered bribes to two county commissioners to appoint Gardner as the new sheriff, his bribes were refused. Mayor Ames's followers began to deceive one another, they robbed the thieves, and they even robbed Ames himself. Fred Ames became dissatisfied with his share of the spoils, so he set up his own disorderly houses to make his own profits. The only person who was loyal to Mayor Ames was Gardner. Fred Ames convinced "Doc" Ames to hire Cohen to take over Gardner's position. More and more of his people began undermining his authority. Mayor Ames's corruption was leading to its demise.

Baker also spoke with Charles Monie, another engineer from Moosic, Pennsylvania. He said he lived in a debtless home and he must have regular wages to support it. He also claims that he has every right to work when he wants, where he wants, and for whom he wants. J.R. Gorman continues to work because he does not understand why people are striking, he sees no need for rioting and chaos. He has a right as an American to work, and a right to bare arms. Abraham Price of Wilkesbarre believes he has a right to work, and that the company has only done good things for him, he was never asked to join a union anyway. Hugh Johnson was a licensed miner of Forest City who owned two houses. He believes in unions, but does not agree with the methods of the United Mine Workers. He went back to work in the mines, and because of that the school board would not employ his daughter.

In all three of these documents, laws were being broken with the aid of the government. All of the documents had corruption in them. The corruption was obvious in Lincoln Steffen's, The Shame Of Minneapolis. The mayor reformed the entire town, turning it into a place were crime equaled profit. In Ida Tarbell's, The Oil War of 1872, the corruption was in the government standing by until the last minute to interfere with the arising monopoly. In The Right to Work, by Ray Stannard Baker, the corruption was in the coalmines. The loyal workers who came to work during the strike, despite the threats made on their lives and families, were replaced as soon as the union workers quit striking and came back to work. The corru

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