The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-20
MEDITATIONS OF MR.. DoOLEY
On the Wisdom of Hanging Alder
men
Chicago Journal.)

On the Wisdom of Hanging Alder
men.
Chicago Journal.)
Chicago is always on the point of
hanging some one and quartering him
and boiling him in hot pitch, and as
surfing him that he has lost the respect
of all honorable men. Rumors of a
characteristic agitation had come
family up Archey road, and Mr.. Hen
messy had heard of it.
81 hear they're goin to hang tn aid
hermen." he said.
q hear" replied Mr.. Dooley, there
is, as We say, what tn pa-apers d call
movement on fut FIR to dec'rate
Christmas threes with aldermen, an
it's wan that ought to be encouraged.
Nawthin' cud be haDpyer, as Hogan
says, thin tn thought iv cillybratin' tn
season be stringin' UP some iv tn faith
ers iv tn city where tn childhur cud
see thin. But I'm afraid, Hinnissy,
that you an me won't see it. It's
har-rd to hang an alderman, amy
how Ye'd have to susDind most ~
thin be tn waist.
Man an boy, I've been in this town
forty year an more, an divvle tn
alderman have 1 see hanged yet.
L y
me head watchin' FIR wan iv thin to be
histed amy pleasant mornin'. They've
been goin' to hang thin wan week an
presintin' thin with a dimon star tn
next, liver since tn year iv tn big
wind, an there's JUS as NANNY iv thin
an jus as big robbers as liver they
yca
an why shud they hang thin, Hin
Missy? Why shud they? I'm an honest
loo a mix
ye'er watch, if ye had wan, on that
bar FIR a year an I'D niver touch it.
1t wuddent be worth me while. I'm an
honest man. / pay me taxes, whin Tim
Ryan isn't assessor with Grogan'S boy
on tn books; l do me jooty an be-
lieve in the polls foorce, though not
in polismen That's different. But, hon
est as 1 am, between you an me, i
was an alderman, i Wuddent say, De
hivins-I think I'd stand firm; but
well. if some wan come to me an said:
'Dooley, here's fifty thousan dollars
FIR ye'er vote to betray tn sacred in
thrests iv Chicago I'd go to Father
Kelly an ask tn prayers iv tn congre-
cation.
"'Tis not, Hinnissy, that this man
Yerkuss goes up to an alderman an
says out straight: Here, Bill, take
this bundle an be an infamous scoun-
dhrel That's TIL way tn man in
Michigan avnoo sees it, but tbs not
straight. Dye mind Dochney that
was wanst alderman here? Ye don't.
Well l do. He iran little con-
thractin' business down be Halsted
sthreet. Twas him built tn big shed
FIR tn ice comp'ny. He was a fine man
an a sthrong wan. He began his
political career be lic1in' q plasthrer
be tn name iv Egan, a man that had
tn County Claire thrip an was thought
to be tn akel iv amy man in town.
From that he growed till he bate
near ivry man he knew, an become
very poplar, so that he was stint to tn
council. Now, Dochney was an honest
an sober man whin he wint in; but
wan day a man come up to him, an,
says he, 'Ye know that ordinance
Schwartz inthrajooced? I do, says
Doehney, an I'm again it. tbs a
swindle, he says Well says the
la-ad, ''they'se five thousin' in it FIR We,
he says. They had to pry Dochney off
iv him. TIL mex day a man he knowed
well come to Dochney, an, says he,
That's a fine ordinance iv Schwartz
1t is, like hell says Dochney. IT'S a
plain swindle,' he says. tbs good
thing FIR tn comp'nies,' says this man,
but look what they's done FIR the city,
he says; an think he says, 'iv the
widdies and orphans, he says, that
has their har-rd earned coin invested,
he says. An a tear rolled down his
cheek. I'm an orphan mesilf,' says
Dochney; an as FIR tn widdies, amy
healthy wildly with sthreet car stock
ought to be ashamed iv hersilf if she's
wildly long he says. An the man
went away.
Now, Dochney thought he'd put tn
five thousan' out of his mind, but he
hadn't He'd ony laid it by, an ivry
time he closed his eyes he thought iv
it. Twas shame to give tn comp
MES what they wanted, but five thou
san was a lot iv money. 'Twud lift a
mortgage. 'TWud clane up tn notes
on tn new contract. 'Twud buy a
new dress FIR Mrs. Dochney. He begun
to feel sorrowful FIR tn widdies an
orphans. Poor things he says to him.
silf, says he. Poor things; how they
must suffer, he says; an 1 need tn
money. TIL sthreet car comp'nies is
robbers he says, but tbs thrue they've
built up tn city, he says, an the
money'd come in handy he says. Nc
wand be hurled anyhow, he says
an, sure, it amt a bride FIR to take
money FIR dom something We want tc
do. anyhow he says. Five thousan
widdies an orphans, he says, an ne
whit to sleep.
That was tn way he felt whin he
wint down to see or Simpson to renew
his notes an Simpson settled it
'Dochney,' he says, I wisht ye'd pay
up he says. I ned tn money he
says I'm afraid tn council won't
pass tn Schwartz ordinance, he says
an it names much to me- he SAYS
BE tn way he says. how're ye
goin' to vote ON that ordinance hi
says. I dinnaw,' says Dochney We'll.
says Simpson (Dochney top me this
himsilf) 'whin We find out come an