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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: conviction and jail entertainment. And, as subsequent events proved, it made
the taxpayers wince.
"One of the constables I drew to the life; nor did I forget a certain Sol
Glenhart, as rotten a police judge as was to be found between the seas. And
this I say out of a vast experience. While he was notorious in local trampdom,
his civic sins were not only not unknown but a crying reproach to the
townspeople. Of course I refrained from mentioning name or habitat, drawing
the picture in an impersonal, composite sort of way, which none the less
blinded no one to the faithfulness of the local color.
"Naturally, myself a tramp, the tenor of the article was a protest against the
maltreatment of the tramp. Cutting the taxpayers to the pits of their purses
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