We'll take off sixty per.cent.if you wish.

That's what we're here for." Then the Legislature goes and passes a law increasin' the liquor tax or some other tax in New York City, takes a half of the proceeds for the State Treasury and cuts down the farmers' taxes to suit.

It's as easy as rollin' off a log--when you've got a good workin' majority and no conscience to speak of.
Let me give you another example.

It makes me hot under the collar to tell about this.

Last year some hay-seeds along the Hudson River, mostly in Odell's neighborhood, got dissatisfied with the docks where they landed their vegetables, brickbats, and other things they produce in the river counties.