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Updated: June 5, 2025
I explained to the officer that I hadn't the slightest idea that I was obliged to have one. He said I must go before the city magistrate, and demanded that I should accompany him, which I did. The old wolf lectured me as if I had been a regular boodler, and then imposed a fine which exceeded the amount in my possession by about three dollars. I asked what the penalty would be if I didn't pay.
There are even women here local church-members, and one or two advanced civic reformers and W. C. T. U. bar-room smashers. Mr. "Hey, Pinski! You old boodler! How much do you expect to get out of this traction business?" Mr. "The man that says I am a boodler is a liar! I never took a dishonest dollar in my life, and everybody in the Fourteenth Ward knows it." The Five Hundred People Assembled.
Or was he the man who in the county convention of his party had risen pale with anger, and had walked across the floor and roared his denunciation of Elijah W. Bemis as a boodler and a scoundrel squarely to the man's gray, smirking face and chattering teeth, and then had reached down, and grabbed the trapped bribe-giver by the scruff of the neck and literally thrown him out of the convention, while the crowd went mad with applause?
He was for "stern virtue" only, and everlastingly lashed compromise and temporizing; called politicians all the elegant hard names there are, in every one of his editorials, especially Lafe Gorgett, whom he'd never seen. He made mighty free with Lafe, referred to him habitually as "Boodler Gorgett", and never let up on him from one year's end to another.
But he shook his head and went on: "You remember my taking you to call on General Buskirk's daughter?" "Quite well," said I, puffing pretty hard. "An angel! A white angel! And this beast, this boodler has the mud in his hands to desecrate her white garments!" "Oh," says I.
He wouldn't know the people's rights from a sawmill." Another Voice. "Or a load of hay." "I say the people have their rights. The companies ought to be made to pay a fair tax. But this twenty-year-franchise idea is too little, I think. The Mears bill now gives them fifty years, and I think all told " "Ho, you robber! You thief! You boodler! Hang him! Ho! ho! ho! Get a rope!" "My friends, wait!
It will drive home the fact that the religion which does not hinder a man from being a boodler or a grafter; which permits a man to enjoy religion while fleecing his neighbors by crafty schemes of finance or artful legalized robberies; which allows the love of gain to triumph over truth and honor and brotherly kindness; which sits serene and complacent while social classes make war on each other, and children's lives are consumed by grinding toil, and women are forced by want into the ways of shame, and the enemies of society are set free to make gain by the ruin of human souls, is a religion which is not worth having.
There's too many of 'em forget to vote, and if the weather isn't just right they won't go to the polls. Some of 'em won't go anyway act as if they looked down on politics; say it's only helping one boodler against another. So your true aristocrat won't vote for either. The real truth is, he don't care.
The blaze of his wrath went out in a moment, and Barclay's mind went back to that afternoon in the seventies when Hendricks picked Bemis up and threw him bodily from the county convention and branded him as a boodler. Barclay knew argument was useless. So he said nothing.
Now it was proposed to take this ordinance out of the hands of friends and send it here, from whence unquestionably it would never reappear. The great test had come. "The vote cannot be reconsidered." He begins a long explanation amid hisses. A Voice. "How much have you got?" A Second Voice. "You've been a boodler all your life." "You come here to intimidate us, but you can't do it.
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