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Phineas Redux

CHAPTER IV
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He has been very loud in denouncing Mr.Finn as a Roman Catholic, and has declared that everything will be up with the State if Tankerville returns a friend and supporter of the Pope.

You'll find that the Church will be the cry here this election.

You can't get anything by supporting it, but you may make a strong party by pledging yourself to disendowment." "Wouldn't local taxation do ?" asked Mr.Molescroft, who indeed preferred almost any other reform to disendowment.
"I have made up my mind that we must have some check on municipal expenditure," said Phineas.
"It won't do--not alone.

If I understand the borough, the feeling at this election will altogether be about the Church.

You see, Mr.Finn, your being a Roman Catholic gives them a handle, and they're already beginning to use it.


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