the same kind. And then see how the Greater New York
Democracy worked the game on the reformers in 1901! The men
who managed this concern were former Tammanyites who had lost
their grip; yet they made the Citizens' Union innocents believe that
they were the real thing in the way of reformers, and that they had
100,000 voter back of them. They got the Borough President of
Manhattan, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Register
and a lot of lesser places. it was the greatest bunco game of
modern times.

And then, in 1894, when Strong was elected mayor, what a harvest
it was for all the little "Democracies', that was made to order that
year! Every one of them got somethin' good. In one case, all the
nine men in an organization got jobs payin' from $2000 to $5000. I
happen to know exactly what it cost to manufacture that
organization. It was $42.04. They left out the stationery, and had
only twenty-three cuspidors. The extra four cents was for two
postage stamps.

The only reason I can imagine why more men don't go into this
industry is because they don't know about it. And just here it
strikes me that it might not be wise to publish what I've said.
Perhaps if it gets to be known what a snap this manufacture of
"Democracies" is, all the green-goods men, the bunco-steerers, and
the young Napoleons of finance will go into it and the public will
be humbugged more than it has been. But, after all, what
difference would it make? There's always a certain number of
suckers and a certain number of men lookin' for a chance to take
them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another. It's
the everlastin' law of demand and supply.