The Wall Street banker thinks it shameful to raise a department clerk's salary from $1500 to $1800 a year, but every man who draws a salary himself says: That's all right. I wish it was me. And he feels very much like votin' the Tammany ticket on election day, just out of sympathy.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft