… any other livin’ man. And I never monkeyed with the penal code. The difference between a looter and a practical … wrong. The Philadelphia crowd runs up against the penal code. Tammany don’t. The Philadelphians ain’t satisfied with … One of them has got a big sign on it, marked: “Penal Code Tree-Poison.” The other trees have lots of apples on …
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