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The Titan

CHAPTER XII
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He caught the point of view as well as the intention of it.

Cowperwood represented a new and rather pleasing type of financier to him.

Evidently, he was traveling in able company if one could believe the men who had introduced him so warmly.

McKenty, as Cowperwood was well aware, had personally no interest in the old companies and also--though this he did not say--no particular sympathy with them.

They were just remote financial corporations to him, paying political tribute on demand, expecting political favors in return.
Every few weeks now they were in council, asking for one gas-main franchise after another (special privileges in certain streets), asking for better (more profitable) light-contracts, asking for dock privileges in the river, a lower tax rate, and so forth and so on.
McKenty did not pay much attention to these things personally.


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