Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-20

"What kind Nv business ar-re We goin'
to use to purify our corrupt governmint?
Look here says he. I'm goin' out iv
pollyticks,' he says. Me wife can't stand
tn sthrain Nv seem tn newspapers always
referrin' to me be nickname in quota
ton marks. I've got me oil job back, an
I've quit bein' statesman he says. But
let me tell We somethin.' I've been a
/ boodler an a CRATER an public leech
f'r five years, but l used to be a square
business man. an I'm givin' We tn thruth
whn say that business amt got a shade
on pollytics in tn matther iv honesty.
TIL bankers was sthrong against Null
cahy. But know all about tn banks.
Whin I was in tn clothin business Min
zenheimer used to have tn banks over
certify his checks ivry night. That wud
mean two years In tn stir-bin FIR a polly
tician, but l don't see no bankers dom
tn wan-two in tn iron gall'ries at Joliet.
knew young fellow that wurruked in a
bank, an he toll me tn prisidint sold tn
United States statutes TO an oil book
dealer to make room FIR a ticker in his
| office. We may be tough gang over at
tn city hall. A foreign name always looks
tough whin it's printed in a rayform idi-
toryal But thank tn Lord, no man iver
accused us ~ bein' life insurance prisi-
dints. We amt buncoin' an scarin' peo-
pie with tn fear iv death into morgedgin'
their furniture to buy booze an cigars f'r
us he says. We may take brides, be-
| cause we need tn money, but we don't
give thin because we want more thin We
| need. We're grafters, we say, but there's
NANNY a dollar pushed over tn counter
Nv bank that Mulcahy wud fling in tn
eye iv tn man that offered it to him.
=" TIL POLITICIAN CRAFTS on tn public an
his inimies 1t don't seem amy worse to
him thin winnin' money on a horse race
He doesn't see tn writing iv tn man he
takes tn coin firm But these here high
fl-nanceers CRAFTS on tn public an their
inimies, but principally on their frinds.
Dump ye'er pardner is tn quickest way to
! tn money. Mulcahy wud rather die thin
skin a frind that had sthrung a bet with
him. But II Mulcahy was a n ~oad boss
instead ~ a pollytical boss, he wud first
wurruk up tn confidence iv his frinds in
him, thin he wud sell thin his stock thin
he wud tell thin tn road was goin' to TIL
dogs an make thin give il back to him
FIR nawthin, thin he wud get out a fav-ra-
BILE rapport an sell tn stock to thin again.
An he'd go on dom this till he'd made
enough to be ilicted prisidint ~ a good
governmint club Some ~ tn boys down
at our office are owners ~ stock whin do
they first larn that things ARE goin' wrong
with tn comply? Afther tn prisidint and
boord iv directors have sold out. Don't
We get off amy gas at me about business
men an politicians. niver knew a polly
tician to go wrong ontil he'd been contain
mated by contact with 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 grafters.
What is pollytical graft anyhow? It amt
stealth money out iv a dhrawer. It amt
robbin' tn taxpayer direct tn way tn gas
comp'ny does. All there's TO it is a bust
ness man payin' less money TO a pollytic-
ian thin he wud have to pay to tn city If
he bought sthreet or a dock direct "
coorse, there ARE petty larceny grabs be
polsmen