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DAVID CHAPTER IV. The School pf LIfe-as-IMs. A day or so after I lost the only case of consequence I had had in more than a year. Buck Fessenden came Into my office, and after dosing me liberally with those friendly protestations and assurances which please even when they do not convince, said: "I know you won't give me away, Sayler, and I can't stand it any longer to watch you going on this way. Don't you see the old man's after you hammer and tongs? He'll ' never let up. You won't get no clients, and, if you do, yo won't win no cases." These last five words, spoken in Buck's mo3t significant manner, revealed what my modesty or, if you prefer it, my' stupidity had hidden from me. I had known all along that Dominick was keeping away and driving away my clients; but I had not suspected his creatures on the bench. To thi3 day, after all these years of use, only with the greatest reluctance and with a moral uneasiness which "would doubtless amuse most political managers, do I send "suggestions' or "intimations" to my men in judicial office and I always do it. and always have done it, indirectly. And I feel relieved and grateful when my judges, eager to "serve the party," anticipate me by sending me a reassuring Lint. I did not let Buck see Into my mind. "Nonsense!" I pooh-poohed; "I've no cause to complain of lack of business; but even if I had, I'd not blame Dominick or any one else but myself." Then I gave him a straight but good-humored look. ."Drop it. Buck," said I. "What did the old man send you to me for? What does he want. He was too crafty to defend an Indefensibe position. "I'll admit he did send me," said he, with a grin, "but I came on my own account, too. Do you want to make it up with him? You can get back under the plum tree if you'll say the word." I could see my mother, as I had seen her two hours before at our poor midday meal an old, old woman, so broken, so worn! And all through the misery this Dominick had brought upon us. Before I could control myself to speak. Buck burst out, a look of alarm In his face: "Don't say it, Mr. Sayler I know 1 know. I told him It'd be no use. Honest, he ain't as bad as you think he don't know no better, and It's because he liked and still likes you that he wants you back-." lie leaned across the desk toward me, in his earnestness and I could not doubt his sin-.-cerity. "Sayler," he went on, "take my advice, get out of the state. You ain't the sort that gives in, and no more is he. You've got more nerve than any other man I know, bar none, but don't waste it on a fool fight. You know enough about politics to know what you're, . up against." , "Thank you," said I, "but I'll stay on" t " . i -He gave over trying to persuade me. "I hope." said he, "you've got a card up your sleeve that the old man don't know about." I made some vague reply, and he soon went away. I felt that I had confirmed his' belief in my fearlessness. Yet, if he could have looked Into my mind, how he would have laughed at his credulity! Probably he would have pitied me, too, for it is one of the curious facts of human nature that men are amazed and even disgusted whenever they see in others the weaknesses that are universal. I doubt not, many who read these v memoirs-will be quite honestly Pharisaical, thanking heaven that they are not touched with any of my infirmities. It may have been coincident, though I think not,' that, a few days after Fessenden's call, a reform movement against Dominick appeared spon the surface of Jackson county politics. I thought at the' time that it was the first streak of the dawn I had been watching for the awakening of the sluggish moral sentiment of the rank and file of the voters. I know now that It was merely the result of a quarrel among the corporations that employed Dominick He had been giving the- largest f them. Roebuck's Universal Gas - and Electric company, called the Power trust, more than its proportional share of the privileges and spoils. " The others had protested in vain, and as a last resort had ordered their lawyers to organize" a movement ' to "purify" Jackson county, , Dominick's stronghold. " I did not then know t it, but I got the nomination for county prosecutor chiefly because none of the other lawyers, not even those secretly directing

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77fCO$T. tC. the reform campaign, was brave enough publicly to provoke the Power trust. I made a house to house, farm to farm, man to man, canvass. We had the secret ballot, and I was elected. The people rarely fail to respond to that kind of appeal if they are convinced that response cannot possibly hurt, a&l may help, their pockets. And, by the way, those occasional responses, significant neither of morality nor of Intelligence, lead political theorists far astray. As If honor or honesty, could win other than sporadic and more or less hypocritical homage practical homage, I mean among a people whose permanent ideal is wealth, no matter how great or how used. That is another way of saying that the chief characteristic of Americans is that we are human, and, whatever we may profess, cherish the human ideal uni versal in a world where want is man's wickedest enemy and wealth his most winning friend. But as I was relating, I was elected, and my majority, on the face of the returns, was between 1,000 and 1,100. It must actually have been many thousands, for never before had Dominick "doctored" the tally sheets so recklessly. Financially I was now on-my way to the surface. I supposed that I had become a political personage also. Was I not in possession of the most powerful office in the county? I wa. astonished that neither Dominick noany other member of his gang made the slightest effort to conciliate me between election day and the date of my taking office. I did succeed in forcing from reluctant grand juries indictments against a few of the most notorious, but least important, members of the gang; and I got one conviction which was reversed on trial-errors by the higher court. The truth was that my power had no existence. Dominick still ruled, through the judges and the newspapers. The press was silent when It could not venture to deprecate or to condemn me. But I fought on almost alone. I did not fail to make it clear to the people why I was not succeeding, and what a sweep there must be before Jackson county could have an real reform. I made an even more vigorous campaign for reelection than I had made four years before. The farmers stood by me fairly well, but the town went overwhelmingly against me. Why? Because I was "bad for business," and, if reelected, would be still worse. The corporations with whose law-breaking I interfered were threatening to remove their plants from Pulaski Lthat would have meant the departure of thousands of the merchants' best customers and the destruction of the town's prosperity. I think the election was fairly honest. Dominick's man beat me by about the same majority, by which I had been elected. "Bad for business!" the most potent of political slogans. And It will inevitably result some day in the concentration of absolute power political and all other kinds, in the hands of the few who are strongest and cleverest. For they can make the people bitterly regret and speedily repent having tried to correct abuses; and the people, to save their dollars, will sacrifice their liberty. I doubt if they will, in our time at least, learn to see far enough to realize that who captures their liberty captures them, and, therefore, their dollars, too. By my defeat in that typical con: test I was disheartened, embittered and ruined. For, in my enthusiasm and confidence I had gone deeply into debt for the expenses of the reform campaign. At midnight of the election day I descended into the black cave of despair. For three weeks I explored it. When I returned to the surface, I was a man ready to deal with men on the terms of human nature. I had learned my lesson. For woman the cost of attainment of womanhood's maturity is the beautiful, the divine freshness of girlhood. For man. the cost of the attainment of manhood's full strength and power is equally great, and equally sad his divine faith in human nature, his divine belief that abstract justice and right and truth rule the world. Even now, when fife is redeeming some of those large promises to pay which I had long ago given up as hopeless bad debts; even now, it gives me a wrench to remember the crudest chapter in that bitter lesson. So certain had I been of reelection that I had arranged to go to Boston the day after my triumph at the polls. For I knew from friends of the Crosbys in Pulaski that Elizabeth was still unmarried, was not engaged, and upon that I had built high a romantic hope.

1 made up my mind that mother and I must leave Pulaski, that I must give np the law and must, in Chicago or Cleveland, get something to do that would bring in a living at once. Before I found courage to tell her that which would blast hopes wrapped round and rooted in her very heart, and, fortunately, befo? I had to confess to her the debts I had made, Edward Ramsay threw me a life-line. He came bustling into my oSce one afternoon, big and broad, and obviously pleased with himself, and, therefore, with the world. He had hardly changed in years since. we were at Ann Arbor together. He had kept up our friendship, and had Insisted on visiting me several times, though not in the past four years, which had been a3 busy for him a3 for me. Latterly his letters urging me to visit him at their great country place, aw.ay at the other end of the state, had set me a hard task of inventing excuses. "Well, well!" he exclaimed, shaking, my hand violently in both his. "You wouldn't come to see me, so I've come to you." I tried not to show the nervousness this announcement stirred. "I'm afraid you'll find our hospitality rather , uncomfortable," was all I said. Mother and I had not spread much sail to our temporary gust of prosperity; and, when the storm began to gather, she straightway close-reefed. "Thanks, but I can't stop with you this time," said he. "I'm making an inspection of the Power Trust's properties, and I've got mother and sister along. We're living in the private car the company gives me for the tour." " He went on to tell how, since his father's death, he had been forced into responsibilities, and was, among many other things, a member of the Power trust's executive committee. Soon came the Inevitable question: "And how are you getting on?" "So, so," replied I; "not too well, just at the present. I was beaten, you know, and have to go back to my practice in January." "Wish you lived in my part of the state," said he. "But the Ramsay company hasn't anything down here." lie reflected a moment, then beamed. "I can get you the legal business of the Power trust if you want it," he said "Their lawyer down here goes on the bench, you know he was on the ticket that won. Roebuck wanted a good, safe, first-class man on the bench in this circuit." But he added nothing more about the Power trust vacancy at Pulaski. True, my first impulse was that I couldn't and wouldn't accept; also, I told myself It was absurd to imagine they would consider me. Still, I wished to hear, and his failure to return to the subject settled once more the cloud his coming had lifted somewhat. Mother was not well enough to have the Ramsays at the house that evening, so I dined with them in the car. Mrs. Ramsay was the same simple, silent, ill-at-ease person I had first met at the Ann Arbor commencement probably the same that she had been ever since her husband's wealth and her children's infection

with new-fangled ideas had forced her from the plain ways of her youth. I liked her, but I was not so well pleased with her daughter. Carlotta was then 22, had abundant, noticeably nice brown hair, an indifferent skin, pettish lips, and restless eyes, a little too close together a spoiled willful young woman, taking to herself the deference that had been paid chiefly to her wealth. She treated me as if I were a candidate for her favor whom she was testing so that she might decide whether she would be graciously pleased to tolerate me. Usually, superciliousness has -not disturbed me. It is a cheap and harmless pleasure of cheap and harmless people. But just at that time my nerves were out of order, and Miss Ramsay's airs of patronage "got" on me. I proceeded politely to convey to her the impression that she did not attract me, that I did not think her worth while this, not through artful design of interesting by piquing, but simply in the hope of rasping upon her as she was rasping upon me. When I saw that I was gaining my point, I ignored her. I tried to talk with Ed., then with his mother, but neither would interfere between me and Carlotta. I had to talk to her until she voluntarily lapsed into offended silence. Then Ed, to save the evening from disaster began discussing with me the fate of our class-mates. I saw that Carlotta was studyip me curiously even resentfully, I thought; and she was coldly polite when I said good night She and her mother called on my mother the next morning. "And what a nice girl Miss Ramsay is so sensibly so intelligent, and so friendly!" said my mother, relating the incident of the visit in minute detail when I went home at noon. "I didn't find her. especially friendly," said I. Whereat I saw, or fancied I saw, a smile deep down fn her eyes and It set me to thinking. In the afternoon Ed looked in at my office In the court house to say good-by. "But first, old man, I want to tell you I got that place for you. I thought I had better use the wire. Old Roebuck is delighted telegraphed me to close the arrangements at

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once congratulated me on Deihg able to get you I knew it'd be to. He has his eyes skinned for bright young men all those big men have. Whenever a fellow, especially a bright young lawyer shows signs of ability, they scoop him In. "I can't believe it," I said; dazed. "I've been fighting him four four years hard." "That's it!" said he. "And don't you fret about it being a case of trying to heap coals of fire on your head. Roebuck don't use the fire shovel for that sort of thing. He's snapping you "I Couldn't Marry a Girl for Her Money." up because you've shown him what you can do. That's the way to get on nowadays, they tell me. Whenever the fellows on top find the chap especially one in public office, who makes it hot for them, they hire him. Good business all around." Thus, so suddenly that it giddied me, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the most harassing anxiety to ease and security. Two months before I should have rejected the Power trust's offer with scorn, and should have gloried in my act as proof of superior virtue. But in those crucial two months I had been apprentice to the master whom all men that ever come to anything in this world must first serve. I had reformed my line of battle, had adjusted it to the lines laid down in tactics of Life-as-it-is. . Before I was able to convince myself that my fortunes had really changed, Ed Ramsay telegraphed me to call on him in Fredonia on business of his own. It proved to be such a trifle that I began to puzzle at his real reason for sending for me. When he spun that trifle out over ten days, on each of which I was alone with Carlotta at least half my waking hours, I thought I had the clew to the mystery. I saw how I could increase the energy of his new enthusiasm for me, and, also, how I could cool it, if I wished to be rash and foe-'sh and to tempt fate again. "Oh, the business didn't amount to much,'' was my answer to one of my mother's first questions, on my return. She 6miled peculiarly. In spite of my efforts, the red came at least I felt red. . "How did you like his sister? she went on, again with that fluttering smile in the eyes only. "A very nice girl," said I, in anything but a natural manner. My mother expression teased me into adding: "Don't be silly. Nothing of that sort. You are always imagining that every one shares your opinion of me. She isn't likely to fall in love with me. Certainly I shan't with her." Mother's silence somehow seemed argumentative. "I couldn't marry a girl for her money, J. retorted. "Of course not," rejoined mother. "But there are other things to marry for besides money or love other things more sensible than either. For instance, there are the principal things home and children." I was listening with an open mind. "The glamour of courtship and honeymoon passes," she went on. "Then comes the suber business of living your career and your home. The woman's part in both is better played if there isn't the sort of love that is exacting, always interfering with the career, and making the home life a succession of ups and downs, mostly downs." "Carlotta is very ambitious," said I. "Ambitious for her husband," replied my mother, "as a sensible woman should be. She appreciates that a woman's best chance for big dividends in marriage is by being the silent partner in her husband's career. She'll be very domestic when she has children. I saw it the instant I looked at her. She has the true maternal instinct. What a man who's going to amount to something needs isn't a woman to be taken care of, but a woman to take care of him." She said no more she had made her point; and when she had done that, she always stopped. Within a month Ed Ramsay sent for me again, but this time it was business alone. I found him in a panic, like a man facing an avalanche and armed only with a shovel. Dunkirk, the senior United States senator for our state, lived at Fredonia. He had seen tht-, by tunneling the Mesaba range, a profitable railroad between Fredonia and Chicago could be built that would shorten the time at least three hours. But it would take about half the carrying business of the Ramsay company, besides seriously depreciating the Ramsay interest in the existing road. "And," continuedEd. "the old scoundrel has eot

Said Kornelia Kinks, "De Lord be thanked, Fse found de shoe with which I'm spanked." She nailed it down so tight, they say, It's lying there this very day. YouH never touch me more," said she M Unless they spank the shoe with me."

tie c3.T5tu - practically sm?s"irio-c ? New York. The people here are hot for the new road. It'll be sure to carry at the special election, next month-. He has the governor and legislature in his pocket, so they'll put through tile charter next winter." "I don't see that anything can be done," said Ed's lawyer, old Judge Barclay, who was at the consultation. "It means a big rake-off for Dunkirk. Politics is , on a money basis nowadays. That's natural enough, since there is money to be made out of it. I don't see how those In politics that don't graft, as they call it, are any better than those that do. Would they get office if they didn't help on the jobs of the grafters? I suppose we might buy Dunkirk off." "What do you think, Harvey?" asked Ed, locking anxiously at me. "We've got to fight the devil with fire, you know." I shook my head. "Buying him off Isn't fighting It's surrender. We must fight him with fire." I let them talk themselves out, and then said: "Well, I'll take it to bed with me. Perhaps something will occur to me that can be worked up into a scheme." In fact, I had already thought of a scheme, but before suggesting it I wished to be sure it was as good as it seemed. Also, there was a fundamental moral obstacle the road would be a public benefit; It ought to be built. That moral problem caused most of my wakefulness that night, simple though the solution was when it finally came. The first thing Ed said to me, as we faced each other alone at breakfast, showed me how well spent those hours were. "About this business of the new road," said he. "If I were the only party at Interest, I'd let Dunkirk go ahead, for it's undoubtedly a good thing from the public standpoint. But I've got to consider the interests of all those I'm trustee for the other share holders in the Ramsay company and In our other concerns here." "Yes," replied I," but why do you say Dunkirk intends to build the road? Why do you take that for granted?" "He's all ready to do it, and it'd be a money-maker from the start." "But," I went on, "you must assume that he has no intention of building, that he is only making an elaborate bluff. How do you know but that he wants to get this right of way and charter so that he can blackmail you and your concerns, not merely once, but year after year? You'd gladly pay him several hundred thousand a year not to use his charter and rifit of way, wouldn't you?" "I never thought of that!" exclaimed Ed. "I believe you're right, Harvey, and you've taken a weight off my conscience. There's nothing like a good lawyer to make a man see straight. What an Infernal hound old Dunkirk is!" "And," I went .on, "if he should build the foad, what would he do with It? Why, the easiest and biggest source of profit would be to run big excursions every Saturday and Sunday, especially Sunday, into Fredonia. He'd fill the place every Sunday from May tin November, with roistering rougns from tne stums oi Chicago. How'd the people like that?" "He wouldn't dare," objected Ramsay, stupidly insisting on leaning backward in his determination to stand straight. "He's a religious hypocrite. He's afraid." "As Deacon Dunkirk he wouldn't dare." I replied. "But as the Chicago & Fredonia Short Line he'd dare anything, and nobody would blame him personally. You know how that Is." Ed was looking at me in dazed admiration. "Then," I went on. "there are the retail merchants of Fredonia. lias it ever occurred to them, in their excitement in favor of this road, that it'll ruin them? Where will the

shopping be done if the women can get to Chicago in two hours and a half?" "You're right, you're right!" exclaimed Ed, rising to pace the floor In. his agitation. "Bully for you, Harvey! We'll show the people that the road'll ruin the town morally and financially." j "But you must come out in favor of it," said I. "We mustn't give Dunkirk the argument that you're fighting it because you'd be Injured by it.. No, you must be hot for the road. Perhaps you might give out that you were considering selling your property on the lake front to a company that was going to change it into a brewery and huge pleasure park. As tne lake's only a few hundred yards wide, with the town along one bank and vour olace alone the other whv. I think that'd rouse the people to their peril." "That's the kind of fire to fight, the devil with," said he, laughing. "I don't think Mr. Senator Dunkirk will get the consent of Fredonia." "But there's the legislature," said I. His face fell. "I'm afraid he'll do us in the end, old man." I thought not, but I only said: "Well, we've got until next winter if we can beat him here." Ed insisted that I must stay on and help him at the delicate task of reversing the current of Fredonia sentiment. My share of the work was important enough, but, as it was confined entirely to making suggestions, it took little of my time. I had no leisure however, for there was Car lotta to Jook after.

When' it was all over and she had told Ed and he had shaken hands with her and had kissed me and had otherwise shown the chaotic condition of his mind, and she and I were alone again, she said: "How did it happen? I don't remember that you really proposed to me. Yet we certainly are engaged." "We certainly " are," said I, "and that's the essential point, isn't it?" "Yes," she admitted, "but and she looked mystified. "We drifted," I suggested. She glanced at me with a smile that was an enigma. "Yes we Just drifted. Why do you look at me so queerly?" "I was Just going to ask you that same question" said I, by way of evasion. Then we both fell to thinking, and after a long time she roused herself to say: "But we shall be very happy. I am so fond of you. And you are going to be a great man and you do so look it even if you aren't tall and fair, as I always though the man I married would be. Don't look at me like that. Your eyes are strange enough when you are smiling; but when you I often wonder what you're so sad about." "Have you ever seen a grown person's face that wasn't sad in repose?" I asked, eager to shift from the particular to the general. "A few idiots, or near Idiots," she replied, with a laugh. Therefore we talked of the future and let the past sleep in Its uncovered coffin.

CHAPTER V. A Good Man and His Woes. After Ed and I had carried the Fredonia election against Dunkirk's road, we went fishing with Roebuck In the northern Wisconsin woods. I had two weeks, two uninterrupted weeks, in which to impress myself upon him; besides, there was Ed, who related In tedious but effective detail, on the slightest provocation, the achievements that bad made him my devoted admirer. So when, I went to visit Roebuck in June, at his house near Chicago, he was ready to listen to me in proper spirit. I soon drew him on to tell of his troubles with Dunkirk how the senator was gouging him and every big corporation, doing business In the state "I've been loyal to the party for 40 years," said he bitterly, "yet. If I had been on the other side it couldn't cost me more to do business. I have to pay enough here, heaven knows. But it costs me more in your tate with your man Dunkirk." His vhite face grew pink with anger. 'It's monstrous! Yet ycu should ave heard him address my Sunday chool scholars at the last annual outng I gave them. What an evidence of he power of religion it is that such retches as he pays the tribute of ypocrjay to it!" His business and his religion were loebuck's two absorbing passions eligion rapidly predominating as he Irew farther away from 60. "Why do you endure his blackmallag, Mr. Roebuck?" I asked. "He is growing steadily worse." "He's certainly more rapacious than ten years ago," Roebuck admitted. "Our virtues or our vices, whichever we give the stronger hold on us. become more marked as we approach judgment When we finally go, we are prepared for the place that has been prepared for us." "But why do you put up with his impudence?" "What can we do? He has political power and is ' our only protection against the people. They have been inflamed with absurd notions about their rights. They are filled with envy and suspicion of the rich. They have passed laws to hamper us in developing the country and want to pass more and worse laws. So we must either go out of business and let the talents God has given us lie idle In a napkin, or pay the Dunkirks to prevent the people from having their ignorant wicked way, and destroying us and themselves. For how would they get work if we didn't provide it for them?" "A miserable makeshift system, said I, harkening back to Dunkifk and his blackmailing, for I was not just then in the mood to amuse myself with the contortions of Roebuck's flexible and fantastic "moral sense." "I've been troubled In conscience a great deal. Harvey., about the morality of what we business men are forced to do. I hope Indeed I feel that we are justified in protecting; our property in the only way open to us. The devil must be fought with fire, you know." "How much did Dunkirk rob you of last year?" I asked. "Nearly $300,000," he said, and his expression suggested that each dollar had been separated from him with as great agony as If It had been so much flesh pinched from his body. "There was Dominick, besides, and a lot of Infamous strike-bills to be quieted. It cost $500,000 in all in your state alone. And we didn't ask a single bit of -new legislation. All the money was paid just to escape persecution under those alleged laws! Yet they call this a free country! "When I think of the martyrdom yes, the mental and moral martyrdom, of the men who have made this country What are the few millions a man may amass in compensation for what he has to endure? Why, Sayler, I've not the slightest doubt you could find

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WILL HARDLY BE MADE. Although there has been much agitation among a few recently favoring a change in the manner of addressing envelopes, that it might aid the railway postal clerks in their work, no such step is probable. The clerks say that the new address giving the name of the state, town and then the addressee, would require as much labor as ths present address, because they would lose time in changing from one custom to the other. As addresses stand at present the town and state are given last and the clerks eyes have been trained to always look at the bottom of the letter and not the name of ths addressee as is commonly thought. Ths state generally catches the clerk" eye and he immediately throws th mail to the proper sack. There is not one case in one hundred where the clerk reads the entire address, he merely looking for the state and If there is some question about this being correct he looks at the name of the town and sends the letter where he thinks proper. Last year there were eleven million letters, sent to the dead letter office, owing to improper addresses. To all persons now sending a dead letter to the office in Washington, the department is sending a blank properly filled out, illustrating the best means of addressing envelopes. The style recommended by the post office department is the old custom, but. recommends that the name and address of the sender be placed in th upper left hand corner, as to aid postal officials in their work of tracing the senders and owners of stray letters. In the eleven million letters last year sent to Washington, $20,000 was found. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 25c' If In need of a hog. sheep or cattle dipping tank, write before buying to the National Medical Co.. Sheldon, la. feannc people, "Who would tell you I am a scoundrel! I have read sermons, delivered from pulpits against toe! Sermons from pulpits!" "I have thought out a plan." said I, after a moment's silence and shocked contemplation of this deplorable state of affairs, "a plan to -end Dunkirk an cheapen the cost of practical business." . At "cheapen the cost" his big ear twitched as If they had been tickled. "You can't expect to get what you need for nothing," I continued, "on the present state of public opinion. But I'm sure I could reduce expenses by half at least half." I had his undivided attention. "It Is patently absurd." I went on, "that yon who finance politics and keep In funds these fellows of both machines should let them treat you as if you were their servants. Why don't you put them In their place, servants at servants' wages?" "But I've no time to go Into politics and I don't know anything about it don't want to know. It's a low business ignorant, corruption, fllthlness" "Take Dunkirk, for example, 1 pushed on. "His lieutenants and heelers hate him because he doesn't di vide squarely. The only factor In his power Is tbe rank and file of the voters of our party. They, I'm convinced are pretty well aware of his hypocrisy but It doesn't matter much what they think. They vote like sheep and accept whatever leaders and candidates our machine gives them. They are almost stone blind in their partisanship and they can always be fooled up to the necessary point. And we can fool them ourselves. If we go about It right, just as well as Dunkirk does it for hire. "But Dunkirk Is their man isn't he?" he suggested. "Any man Is their man whom you choose to give them,"replied I. "And don't you give them Dunkirk? He takes the money from the big business interests, and with It hires tbe men to sit In the legislature and finances the machine throughout the state. It takes big money to run a political machine. His power belongs to you people, to a dozen of you, and you can take it away from him; his popularity belongs to the party, and it would cheer just as loudly for any other man who wore the party uniform." "I see," he said reflectively; "the machine rules the party, and money rules the machine and we supply the money and don't get the benefit. It's as if my wife or one of my employea run my property." (To Be Continued.)

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