The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-10

, can't give away an alley without
blushin', but a business man who Is
/! in pollytics jus to see that tn clVll
sarvice law gets thurly enforced, Will
give Lincoln Park an tn public hbry
to tn beef thrust, charge an admission
price to tn lake front an make 1t
felony FIR annywan to buy stove polish
outside iv his store, an have 1t all put
down to public improvements with
pitcher iv him in tn corner stone.
"Forchnitely, Hinnissy, rayformer
is seldom a business man. He thinks
he is but business men know diff rent.
They know what he Is. He thinks
business an honesty is tn same thing.
He does, indeed. He's got thin mixed
because they dhress alike. His idee Is
that all he has to do 20 make bust
hess administration is to have honest
men ar-round him. Wrong. I'm not
sayin', mind We, that man can't do
good work an be honest at tn same
time. But whin I'm hirin' a la-ad
find out first whether he is onto his
lob an afther few years, l begin to
suspect that he is honest, too. Nanny
dishonest man can lay brick
sthraight an nanny a man that Wud-
dent steal ye'er spoons will break
ye'er furniture. 1 don't want Father
Kelly to hear me. but Id rather have
a competint man who wud steal IL l
give him. a chanst but l won't, do me
plumbin', thin person that wud scorn
to help himsilf but didn't know how
to wipe a joint. Ivry man ought to be
honest to start with. but to give a man
an Off zee JUS because he's honest is
like iIictin' him to Congress because
he's a pathrite, because he don't bate
his wife or because he always wears
right boot on tn right foot. A man
ought to be honest to start with an
afther that he ought to be crafty.
pollytician who's ony honest is JUS
tn same as bein out in winther
storm without amy clothes on
Another thing about rayform ad-
! transformations is they always think tn
on'y man that ought to hold job is a
lawyer. TIL raison is that in tn coorse
Nv his thrainin a lawyer larns enough
about ivrything to make a good front
on amy subject to anybody VINO
doesn't know about it. So win IN
| rayform administration comes in IN.
mayor says: Who'll we make chlet
XIV polls in place iv tn misguided run
fyan who has held tn job fr twinty
years! TIL man FIR tn place. says tn
mayors adviser, is Arthur Lghtout
he says. He is an ixcillent lawyer
Yale '95, an is we'll up on polls mat
tiers. Las year he read a paper on
"Th' fine polls foorce iv London be-
fure tn annyal meetin' Nv tn S'ciety
FIR I,adin' tn Mulligan Family to a
Betther an Harder Life. Besides, ne
says, he's been in tn milishy an tn
foorce needs a man who'll be afraid
not to shoot in case iv public disturb
ance.' So Arthur takes hold Nv IN
constabulary an in a year tn polis
can all read Emerson an tn burglars
begin putin up Ladders an block an
tackles befure eight A. M. An so II
is on ivry side A lawyer has charge
iv tn city horse-shoein', another wan
| is clanin' tn sthreets, tn author Nv
| 'Gasamagoo on torts' is thryin' to dis
| pose iv tn ashes be THROWN THIN In
| tn air on a windy day an tn brlgnt
| boy that took tn silver ware FIR tn
| essay on ne exeats an their relation to
| life is plannin' a uniform that VIII pc
| sarviceable an constitchoochinal' fr
! tn brave men that wurruks on tn city
| dumps. An wan day tn main ray
former goes out expictin' to rayceiVe
tn thanks iV tn community an tn
public that has JUS got out Nv Jail f'r
| Iettin' tn wather run too long in In
bath tub rises up an cries: Back to
| tn University Settlement TIL man
with tn di'mon' in his shirt front
/ comes back an pushes tn honest law
yers down tn steps an a dishonest
| horse-shoer shoes tn city's horses well
an a crooked plumber does tn citys
| plumbin securely. an rascally polls
man that may not be avarse to pickin'
up a bet but will always find out whin
Pathrolman Seaman slept on his beat
takes hold iv tn polls foorce, an we
raysume our nachral condition iv IL
iagaI merrimint. An tn rayformer
spinds tn rest iv his life tellin' us
where we are wrong. He's good at
that Only he don't understand that
people wud rather be wrong an COM
forta BILE thin right in Jail"
II don't like rayformer," said Hen
messy.
"Or amy other republican" said
Mr.. Dooley.