The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-19
Mr.. DOOLEY on
POLITICAL HONESTY

In Collier r Nov. IS, Mr.. Dooi5y
discussing b. cess and political hon
esty. among other things says:
It's sthrange people can't see it tn
way do. There's Jawn Cassidy. Ye
know him. He's a pollytieian or graft
er. TIL same thing. His graft is to
walk downtown 10 tn city hall at s
o'clock iVry mornin' an set on a high
stool ontn in tn Afternoon addin' up
figures. Ivry week twinty dollars iv tn
taxpayers money, twinty dollars wrung
firm you an me. Hinnissy. is handed
TO TN ; bOodler. He used to get twinty-
five in ciothin' store, but he is a ro-
mantle fellow an he thought 'twud be
fine thing to be statesman. Tn diff
f'rence between Il clothin' clerk an a
statesman clerk is that tn statesman
clerk gets less money. an has tn priv
ilege iv wur9ukin' out iV office hours.
Well, Cassidy come in wan night with
his thumbs sta ned firm his unholy call
in. Well says I, we graf'ers ar-re
goin' to be hurled out I says. I SUD
pose So says he. Wen have a BUSH
ness ADMINISTRATION, says J. We'll,
says he, L wondher what kind iV q
business will it be- he says. viii it be
tn insurance business? l tell ye If
they liver inthrajocce life insurance
methods in our little Doodle Office
there'll be a revolution in this here city.
Will it be a railroad administration,
with tn Office chargin' We twice as
much fr wather as Armour pays? VIII
il be tn banIin' business, with tn su-
perintindent takin tn money out "
tn dhraWer ivry night an putin in
few kind Wurruds on a slip ~ paper?
What kind ~ a business ARE ye
goin' TO use TO purify our corrupt gov
ermint? Look here says he. Tn go
in out " pollyticks' he says. Me wife
can't stand the sfhTain iv seem tn
NEWSPAPERS always referrin' to me be
n nickname in quotation marks. I've
got me OF job back, an I've quit bein'
a statesman he says. But let me tell
We something I've been d boodler an
a CRATER an 4 public leech FIR five
years, but ! used TO be a square bust
ness man, an I'm giVin' We tn thEuth
Whin / say that business amt got a
shade on poilytic ks IN tn matther iV
honesty TIL bankers was sthrong
against Mulcshy. But l know all about
tn banks. Whin I was in tn clothin'
business MinZenheimer used to have tn
hanks Overcertify his checks ivrv night.
That wud mean two years i'm tn STIR
bin f'r a rOllytician. but I don't see no
bankers dom tn wan-two III tn IRON
gall'ries at Joliet. I knew a young fell
low that wurruped III a bank, an he
'ol me tn prisidint sold tn United
States statutes TO an oil book dealer tn
make room FIR a ticker in his Office. We
may be a touch gang over at tn city
hail. A foreign name always looks
tough whin it's printed In a rayform
'di'oryal. But. thank tn Lord, no man
tver accused US iv bein' life insurance
prisidints. We amt buncoin' an scar
in nj. Z y ~. n int
morgedein' their furniture TO buv booze
an cigars FIR us he saws. We may
take br hes. because weNneed tn money.
but .ge don't give thin because We
want more thin we need. We're graft.
eFs, We say. bur there's NANNY dollar
rushed over tn counter " a bank that
Mulcshy VIVID fling in tn eye iv tn
man that offered it TO him.
TIL pollytician CRAFTS on tn public
an his inimies. 1t don't seem amy
worse TO him thin winnin' money on q
horse race. He doesn't see tn with
ing " IN man he takes tn coin firm.
But these here high h-nanceers gratis
on tn public an their inimies. but prin-
cipally OH their frinds. Dump ye'er
pardner is tn quickest way 10 tn
money. Mulcahey wud rather die thin
skin a frind that had sthrung a bet
with him. But if Mulcahy was a rail-
road boss instead " a pollytical boss,
he Wud first wurruk up tn con- idence
iv his frinds in him, thin he wud sell
thin his stock, thin he w-:d tell thin. tn
road was goin' TO tn dogs an make
thin give II back to him FIR nawthin'.
thin he wud get out a fav'rable rapport
an sell tn stock to thin again. An
he'd go on doin' this till he'd made
enough to be ilieted prisidint " good
soverInint club. Some ~ tn boys down
at our office are owners iv stock. Whin
do they first larn that things ar-re go
in wrong with tn comply? Afther tn
prisidint an boord " directors have
sold out Don't We get off amy gas at
me about business men an pollyticians.
| niVer knew a pollytician 20 go wrong
ontil he'd been contaminated be con-
tact with a business man. I've been
five years in tn Wather office, an in all
that time not a postage stamp has been
missed. An we're put down as graft
ers. What is pollytical graft. amy
how? 1t amt stealin' money out IL d
dhrawer. 1t amt Robin tn taxpayer
direct tn way tn gas comp'ny doas.
All there's 10 il is a bus ness man pay
in less money to a pollytician thin he
wud have 10 pay to tn city if he bought
a sthreet or dock ticket " cOorse,
there ar-re petty larceny grabs be po-
lismen."