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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by Plunkitt ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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The Importance of Patriotism in the Civil Service

How are we going to provide for the thousands of men who worked for the Tammany ticket? It can't be done. I know more than one young man in past years who was just overflowing with patriotism, but when he was knocked out by the civil service humbug, he got to hate his country and became an anarchist. When a young Irishman drops whiskey and takes to beer and long pipes in a German saloon, that young man is today one of the wildest anarchists in town. And just to think, he might be a patriot, but for that cussed civil service. Say, did you hear about that civil service reform association kicking because the tax commissioners want to put their

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