As a result of the reckless and often exaggerated gabble of the grafters, sensational newspapers and magazines find it an easy matter to keep their columns filled continually with highly spiced political exposures. In all probability comparatively few out of the total of corrupt transactions that actually take place are thus made public, but the prominence given these few may easily lead to overestimates of the extent of this evil in our political life. Undoubtedly, also, our practical political leaders are sometimes accused of offences in which they had no part. Inefficiency, as we have seen, is very common and very similar in appearance to corruption. No great reportorial or editorial skill is required to dress it in the garb of the latter. The constant reiteration of stories of this kind creates as well as meets a popular demand. Ordinarily a saving sense of the exaggeration and partisanship indulged in by a section of the press leads readers to make the necessary discount in forming their opinions of the published accounts of corruption. At times, however, the popular craving for pungent stories of corruption amounts to a positive mania. Such was the case in 1905, 1906, and 1907, as any comparison of the tables of contents of certain magazines and papers of that period with previous years will abundantly show. On the other hand there can be no doubt that a considerable part of this literature of exposure and denunciation was substantially accurate, and that its publication was a service of high merit. That it was also profitable is no reproach: society is the gainer when instead of ostracism and punishment it provides rewards and honours for those who attack real public abuses. In not a few cases where corruption was thus charged by journalists subsequent investigations before commissions and courts left no doubt of the existence of vicious practices, and led to reforms of a most beneficent character.