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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Great Fight for Clean Government
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On the other hand your ten-thousand-dollar man has a wider outlook.

If you offer him fifty dollars for his vote on the board, he'd probably laugh at you." "Ah, yes," said Mr.Newberry, "I see the idea.

A fifteen-hundred-dollar salary is so low that it will tempt a lot of men into office merely for what they can get out of it." "That's it exactly," answered Mr.Fyshe.
* * * * * From all sides support came to the new league.

The women of the city--there were fifty thousand of them on the municipal voters list--were not behind the men.

Though not officials of the league they rallied to its cause.
"Mr.Fyshe," said Mrs.Buncomhearst, who called at the office of the president of the league with offers of support, "tell me what we can do.


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