The news & observer., 1905-11-19

been a boodler an CRATER an a
public leech f'r five years, but / used
to be square business man, an I'm
igivin We tn thruth whin / say that
business amt got shade on pollytics
in tn matter iv honesty TIL bankers
was sthrong against Mulcahy. But l
know all about tn banks. Whin 1
was in tn clothin' business Minzen-
heimer used to have tn banks over
certify his checks ivry night. That
Wud mean two years in tn stir bin FIR
a pollytician. but [ don't see no bank
erS dOin' tn wan-two in tn iron gal
fries at Joliet. / knew young rel
low that wurruked in a bank, an he
tol' me th' prisidint sold tn United
States Statutes to an OF book dealer to
make room FIR ticker in his office,
We may be a tough gang over at tn
City Hall A foreign name always looks
tough whin it's printed in a rayform
liditoryal. But, thank the Lord, no
man iver accused us IT, bein' life insur
ance Drisidints. We amt buncoin' an
scarin' people with tn fear iv death
into morgedgin their furniture to buy
booze an cigars FIR u.s. he says. We
may take bribes. because we need tn
money, but we don't give thin because
we want more thin we need. We're
grafters, ye say. but there's NANNY
dollar pushed over tn counter iv a
mank that Mulcahy wud fling in tn
eye iv tn man that offered it to him.
The pollytician CRAFTS on tn
public an his inimies. 1t don't seem
amy worse to him thin winnin'
money or q ho~sa race. He doesn't
see tn writhing iv tn man he takes
tn coin firm. But these here high
fi-nanceers CRAFTS on tn public an
their inimies. but principally on their
friends. Dump ye'er pardner is tn
quickest wav to tn money. Mulcahy
wud rather die thin skin a frind that
had sthruno a bet with him. But If
Mulcahy Was railroad boss instead iV
a pollytical boss, he wud first wurruk
up tn confidence iv his friends in
him, thin he wud sell thin his stock
thin he wud tell thin tn road was
goin' to tn dogs an make thin give
it back to him FIR nawthin'. thin he
wud get out q fav'rab ble rapport an sell
the stock to thin again. An he'd go
on doin' this till he'd made enough to
be ilicted prisidint iv a good COVER
mint club. Some iv tn boys down at
our office are owners j" stock. Whin
do they first larn that things ar-re
goin' wrong with tn compny? After
tn prisidint an boord 'iv directors
have sold out Don't We get off amy
gas at me about business men an pol
lyticians@fI niver knew pollytician
to go wrong ontil he'd been contami-
mated be contact with q business man.
I've been five years in tn Wather
office. an in all that time not a post
age stamp has been missed. An were
put down as grafters What is poll
lytical graft anyhow? 1t amt stealin
money out iv a dhrawer. 1t amt rob-
bin the taxpayer direct tn way tn
gas compny does. All there's to it is
a business man payn' less money to
a pollytician thin he wud have to pay
tn city if he bought a sthreet or a
dock direct " coorSe. there ar-re
petty larceny grabs be polismen.
Business Needs to be Elevated.
"'Thats so Everywhere. Wheriver
there's polismen there's a shakedown
But in ivry big crooked job there's a
business man at wan end. Tn ligisla~
chures is corrupt, but who makes 1t
worth while f'r thin to be corrupt but
tn pathrtes iv tn life insurance COM
p'nies? TIL la-ads IL tn council ar-re
out FIR tn stuff, says we. But how do
they make anything eXcipt be sellin'
sthreets to tn high fi-nanceers that
own the hairoad como'nieso If bus
mess men niver wanted TO buy cheap
things that don't belong to thin. no
pollytician that cud carry a precinct
wud go into tn council. I'm goin'
back to business. Minzenheimer
thinks he will need me to get tn al
dhermen to let him add fifty illegal
feet to TIL front iv his store. I'm
goin' back to business, an | expect to
help purify It. What tn business iv
this country needs, he says, is f'r
active Young pollyticians to take an in
threst in it an ilivate it to a higher
plane. Me Battle cry is: Honest
pollytical methods in tn adminsthra-
ton iv business, he says. In time,
he says I hope TO see tn same hon
esty. good faith. an efficiency in tn
Mutual Life Insurance Comp'ny an
tn Copper Thrust that we see now. he
says in tn administration iv Tam
many Hail. he says
There's d good deal in that said
Hennessy. Il knew an alderman
wanst that was honest as tn sun, ex-
cept whn tn street railroad or tn gas
comp'ny needed something.
"Well, there We ay-re, said Mr.
Dooley. 1T seems to me that tn on'y
thing to do is to keep pollyticians an
business men apart They seem to
have a bad infoonce on each other
Whiniver | see an aldherman an
banker walkir' down tn sthreet to-
gether. | know tn Recordin' Angel
will have to order another bottle iv
ink.
CARE OF THE INSANE.