[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER EIGHT: The Great Fight for Clean Government 28/46
The _Plutorian Times_ printed a dotted coupon on the corner of its front sheet with the words, "Are you in favour of Clean Government? If so, send us ten cents with this coupon and your name and address." The _Plutorian Citizen and Home Advocate_, went even further.
It printed a coupon which said, "Are you out for a clean city? If so send us twenty-five cents to this office.
We pledge ourselves to use it." The newspapers did more than this.
They printed from day to day such pictures as the portrait of Mr.Fyshe with the legend below, "Mr. Lucullus Fyshe, who says that government ought to be by the people, from the people, for the people and to the people"; and the next day another labelled.
"Mr.P.Spillikins, who says that all men are born free and equal"; and the next day a picture with the words, "Tract of ground offered for cemetery by Mr.Furlong, showing rear of tanneries, with head of Mr.Furlong inserted." It was, of course, plain enough that certain of the aldermen of the old council were to be reckoned as part of the cohort of darkness.
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