SECRET COMMISSIONS.

Aji

important movement lias been started in

England

with a view to the repression of an insidious and very demoralizing form of bribery. The vice is the universal Indian dusturi under another name. It has been exposed in a very

aggravated form by the Hooley Revelations in the promotion of companies. The procuration of big names by big payments has been used to a fictitious impart importance to commercial and enterprises, people have thus been induced by practically false representations to pay for worthless shares But the system

or

embark in doubtful ventures. social life in

largely pervades

and reprehensible shapes. Serbribed bj^ tradesmen, officials by contractors and so forth., and the outcome in every more mean

even

vants

are

imposition,?the sale of rubbish at the over the price of sound material. price The Lord Chief Justice of England seeks by case

is

or

introducing a bill into Parliament to render the giving of secret commission punishable by law. Such

a

profession view

would be impossible in India, but one which members of the medical might well take to heart with a

step

the matter to

is

spontaneous eradication

wherever it exists.

of the taint