"You can't stay in politics unless you
can put your constituents on some pay
roll," said the alderman. "Most of my
time is spent in getting work for my
people, and this is true of every alder
man in the city. I don't know how
many men I have got into the street
car company, the gas company and the
other companies which have come to
us for favors. Just now my best hold
is the railroad which cuts though the
west end of my ward. The railroad
people want to run a long switch down
a street and it comes in mighty handy
to me just now, for the other crowd
has got the breweries and the lumber
yards, and I'm going to have a hard
fight on my hands. I sent 40 men over
to the railroad yesterday, and they are
all working to-day."
The city hail seems to be regarded
by many citizens as an asylum for their
drunken, incompetent, worthless rela
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are always being exhort.
ed to seek something
great. "Aim high; if you shoot low." "Hitch you wagon to a star," are
samples of the proverbs urged upon us from our boyhood. Our very at
mosphere in this land tends to foster ambition, desire to do and gel
something great.
