The other apples are good enough for me, and 0 Lord! how many of them there are in a big city! Steffens made one good point in his book.

He said he found that Philadelphia, ruled almost entirely by Americans, was more corrupt than New York, where the Irish do almost all the governin'.

I could have told him that before he did any investigatin' if he had come to me.

The Irish was born to rule, and they're the honestest people in the world.

Show me the Irishman who would steal a roof off an almhouse! He don't exist.
Of course, if an Irishman had the political pull and the roof was much worn, he might get the city authorities to put on a new one and get the contract for it himself, and buy the old roof at a bargain--but that's honest graft.