Indeed, without cunning or reason, the plunderers, embracing all who made or paid canal accounts, declared bids informal that contracts at increased prices might be given to members of a ring who divided their ill-gotten gains.
Alexander condemns the manipulation of bidding processes for the benefit of corrupt insiders in canal contracts.
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