Anthropology question: Municpal misgovernment. (Sodom and Gomorrah verus Muckraking rings of the 1920's-30's)?

Question

The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Genesis 19

Answer 1

"There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful."

(President Theodore Roosevelt Muckrake Speech of 1906)