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"The men do; we'd always get along if it was only a question of the men. But the women make distinctions " "Look here!" he broke out wrathfully. "There's Dick Blatchford mixed up in dirty work for dirty money I wouldn't lay my fingers on; and Terry, or Brannan, or McGowan, or all the rest of the boodling, land-grabbing, pettifogging crew!
He ended by philosophizing upon it with the Judge, who came down in late February to attend the session during the great railway fight. The Judge put his heels on the window sill, and folded his arms over the problem. "Well, now, this thing must be looked at from another standpoint. The power of redress is with the voter. If the voter is a boodler, he will countenance boodling.
Boodling and lobbying are called politics; watering stock, squeezing out legitimate competition, is called financiering; wholesale confiscation and unjust conquest is called statesmanship.
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