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Government railway bond issues, franchises and stock-quotations were beyond that cheap stiff's depth. Probably Cranston was holding forth in regard to some petty theft which his crew of spotters had discovered, some ticket-scalping conductor
"I don't see very well what it can be. He knows now that he can't get his franchises without a compromise that will eat into his profits, and if that happens he can't sell his Union Traction stock. This legislative scheme of his must have cost him all of three hundred thousand dollars, and what has he to show for it?
Next in line was "Shirty" MacDonough, a minor politician, "appropriately framed in silver dimes," as the "Clarion" put it. He was followed by Eddie Perkins, proprietor of a dubious resort on Mail Street. By this time coat-room franchises had suffered a severe depreciation.
In Chicago the same men who had bribed legislators and common councils to give them public franchises, and who had hugely swindled and stolen under guise of law, had been the principals in calling for the execution and imprisonment of the group of labor leaders, and this they had decreed in the name of law. This was the familiar one of corruption and fraud.
A corporation which derived its profits from public franchises, or from a business transacted in many different states, found the purchase of a local or state machine well within its means and well according to its interests.
Therefore, there is no limit to the number of jobs he may control. If this result could be achieved, these tens of millions would be able to earn a living only in case the small coterie in control permitted them to do so. Job ownership is built, of necessity, on the ownership of land, resources, capital, credit, franchises, and other special privileges.
Just then the door swung open, and Dennis came in. "Tim said yez was alone wid Denton, sir, so Oi came right in. It's a good-mornin', sir. How are yez, Terence?" "You are just the man I want, Dennis. Tell Denton how the ward feels about the franchises." "Shure. It's one man they is. An' if Denton will step down to my place this night, he'll find out how they think."
It may take from them any right of suffrage it may previously have conferred, or at any time modify or abridge it, as it may deem expedient.... Their political rights are franchises which they hold as privileges, in the legislative discretion of the United States." The very latest judicial utterance on the subject is in harmony with all the rest. Mr.
Wygant told me himself that he had paid money to Slattery to get franchises!" And then Mr. Wygant came into the controversy. "WHAT!" he shouted. "Why, of course you did!" cried Samuel in amazement. "Didn't you tell me this very afternoon?" "I told you nothing of the sort!" declared the man. "You told me everybody did it that there was no way to help doing it.
I therefore cannot feel that I am an alien in your midst, and, with something of confidence as to the result, appeal to you for your suffrages for the office of district attorney. I am as fully identified with the interests of Mississippi as it is possible for any one to be, and in my humble way, will strive as earnestly as any one to restore her lost franchises and lost prosperity.
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