Let me tell you that patriotism has been dying out fast for the last twenty years.

Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight.

That was somethin' to make a man patriotic.

Now, when a party wins and its men come forward and ask for their rewards, the reply is, "Nothin' doin', unless you can answer a list of questions about Egyptian mummies and how many years it will take for a bird to wear out a mass of iron as big as the earth by steppin' on it once in a century ?" I have studied politics and men for forty-five years, and I see how things are driftin'.

Sad indeed is the change that has come over the young men, even in my district, where I try to keep up the fire of patriotism by gettin' a lot of jobs for my constituents, whether Tammany is in or out.