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I know more than one young man in past years who worked for the ticket and was just overflowin' with patriotism, but when he was knocked out by the civil service humbug he got to hate his country and became an Anarchist.
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This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the age. It is the curse of the nation.
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I know that the civil service humbug is stuck into the constitution, too, but, as Tim Campbell said: What's the constitution among friends?
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I honestly believe that drink is the greatest curse of the day, except, of course, civil service, and that it has driven more young men to ruin than anything except civil service examinations.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
November 17, 1842
Died:
November 19, 1924
(aged 82)
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