:23:02
(Woman screams)
:23:06
He was always a little muscle-bound.
I could beat him to the punch.
:23:10
Boy, we had some brannigans.
:23:12
I thought you said
you were the governor of a state.
:23:15
Yes. You was just a cheap crook.
:23:17
You gotta crawl before you creep, don't you?
:23:20
I collected chicken feed for a while, see.
:23:23
Then the guy makes me an alderman
and I move in on the second floor.
:23:28
Bus franchises, garbage disposal, nice stuff.
:23:32
- 100,000 dollars!
- That's what they tell me.
:23:35
Well, that's a confounded outrage.
:23:38
Even in the days of Bart Herman,
we didn't pay that price for franchises.
:23:42
Even in the days of Bathhouse Jake.
:23:44
Those boys were pikers
compared to this mob.
:23:47
(Laughs)
Ah, you don't mean that, Mr Maxwell.
:23:50
You gotta remember
that everything's gone up.
:23:53
Living expenses is higher.
There's an income tax now.
:23:56
You're dealing with a better class of man.
:23:59
I will not pay graft. Millions for defence,
but not one cent for tribute.
:24:03
- You can call it advertising.
- No, sir.
:24:05
(Phone rings)
:24:07
Yes?
:24:09
I'm sorry, Miss Dangerfield, Alderman
McGinty is in conference just now.
:24:14
I certainly will.
:24:16
Thank you.
:24:20
Go on.
:24:21
"Backing this agitation, said the mayor,
are so-called pious men
:24:24
"who have accepted money from racketeers
and gamblers in sanctimonious secrecy.
:24:31
"The petition was filed by Doctor Jarvis,
:24:34
"chairman of
the Civic Purity League Incorporated." Ah.
:24:37
They're always talking about graft,
but they forget if it wasn't for graft,
:24:42
you'd get a very low type of people
in politics, men without ambition.
:24:46
Especially since you can't rob the people.
:24:48
Sure.
:24:49
How is that?
:24:51
What you rob, you spend,
what you spend goes back to the people.
:24:55
So where's the robbery?
I read that in a book.
:24:58
That book should be in every home.