About the same time Lincoln Steffens exposed the sordid character of politics in several municipalities in a series of articles bearing the painful heading: The Shame of the Cities.

大约在同一时间，林肯史蒂芬斯在一系列文章中揭露了几个城市政治的肮脏特征，这些文章的标题令人痛苦：城市的耻辱。