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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

Then food and tenement
legislation always stirs up bad feeling in the dealers and owners. If
the opposite party would play fair, we could afford to laugh at it, but
you see the party out of power can oppose about anything, knowing that a
minority is never held responsible, and so by winning over the
malcontents which every piece of legislation is sure to make, before
long it goes to the polls with a majority, though it has really been
opposing the best interests of the whole state. We can't sit still, and
do nothing, yet everything we do will alienate some interest."
"It's as bad as the doctrine of fore-ordination," laughed another of the
party:
"You can't if you will,
You can if you won't,
You'll be damned if you do,
You'll be damned if you don't."
"You just said," stated Peter, "that the man who could do what the
majority wants done every time, would be re-elected. Doesn't it hold
true as to a party?"
"No. A party is seldom retained in power for such reasons.


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