Montague Monologue from The Machine

From The Machine by Upton Sinclair

male · defiant · 51 sec

The business deals that are trade with the public service corporations. (LAURA: Ah! That is what I wish to know about!) For instance, I am running a street railway... (LAURA: My father is running them all!) Very well. Your father is in alliance with the organization; he is given franchises and public privileges for practically nothing; and in return he gives the contracts for constructing the subways and street-car lines to companies organized by the politicians. These companies are simply paper companies... they farm out the contracts to the real builders, skimming off a profit of twenty or thirty per cent. One of these companies received contracts last year to the value of thirty million dollars.

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