The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-13
Manicure Lady
on Temptation
of Senators

"A eeqrsss@ "; said u TIE M Nam re
morning paper. Them senators must
''oh, / don't know" said the Head
Barber, putting on his newly Numbered
jacket Maybe they are and maybe
they amt l don't go SO far as TO say
Mercy. George the Manicure Lady
exclaimed. you don't mean 10 say that
you uphold them?'
Not exactly" replied the Head Bar
her II don't upheld them when they
hold up people. but l can see, in a way,
why they might fall when the fatal
tempter comes You see. kiddo, this Is
the way Of il: Along comes a poor
senator. with nothing except his sal
AIRY, and settles down in some quiet
Albany hotel for the season Now the
salary may be juicy enough. figured
from our standpoint, but a salary Is
only a salary, and no matter how big
II is il comes only once a week
The senator means Well-they all do
Tie paws the tailor every time he gets
the frOck coat pressed. and all the tabs
he signs for food and drink is met when
presented a the end of the week.
But every Eden has snake, kiddo.
and along comes the representative Of
the National Irrigation & Pump com
pany. The representative is fat and
we'll groomed, and bears himself as
stately as any representative should
when spea king to a senator.
The senator ought never 10 speak TO
him to begin with" declared the Mani
cure Lady. There is some things in
this world, George. which ought TO be
above money and its power.
"TheY ought to be- admitted the
Head Barber, but they amt. As / was
saying, in blows the representative OF
the National Irrigation & Pump com
ipany, and he sits down across the table
from the senator. 1 don't know exact
Ily how he goes about 1t, but he has
some of that smooth, double entendre
talk. some of them yelled illusions,
like, Well. kiddO, how much do you
want me to kick in2 Here the bank
Toll-write your own ticket
Ills an awful thing In Winter, dear
girl, 10 be shattered by the blast of
corruption, to be tempted by the sight
of a yellow roll OF bills.
You see. most of them senators has
wives back home, buying hats at $50
the COPY. and they have 10 rtSure hard
sometimes to make both ends meet. l
don't think most of them mean to be
dishonest when they go up TO Albany
and put on their togas for the first
time, but il takes money to buy toys
for the wives and tOgas for themselves,
anG you can dope out the rest for your
self
How They Are Tempted.
This irrigation pump of ours would
he all right the representative viii
hill becomes a law. Now. there is no
reason in the world why such and such
q bill should not be a law. You are =
big. strong man. senator, and 1 feel
sure that you wouldn't like TO see a
poor little bill shivering around in the
cold when it might just as well be a
warm law. Let's play game of poker,
just the two Of US. and l viii promise
IN advance TO call everything"
I think it is perfectly shameful,
said the Manicure Lady. Brother VIII
fred and / were talking it over up TO
the house last night, and the old gent
was listening, too.
1.-The old gent. you know. George,
came near being a senator once. The
only thing that saved him was that he
didn't get the nomination. Well, VIII
fred took on so awful that me and the
old gent thought he was going TO lose
his mind. He read Us poem which he
had wrote, called The Blight of Al
bany' All I remember was
" sweet Albany, loveliest village of the
East,
Where every senator grabs ten. al
least.
1T can't be helped said the Head
Barber. Where there is honey, there
IS bees. You could talk your head off
but you couldn't change conditions
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