When I asked him why he was so quiet, he laughed in a wild sort of way and said: "What rot all this is!" Just then a band came along playing "Liberty." He laughed wild again and said: "Liberty?
Rats!" I don't guess I need to make a long story of it.
From the time that young man left the civil service office he lost all patriotism.

He didn't care no more for his country.

He went to the dogs.
He ain't the only one.

There's a gravestone over some bright young man's head for every one of them infernal civil service examinations.

They are underminin' the manhood of the nation and makin' the Declaration of Independence a farce.