Excerpt from Our Little Monarchy: Who Runs It, and What It CostsThe experience of a year has also proved that all the clamor raised by these bold, bad men against our old municipal govern ment, and the way it was administered, was for the purpose of practising a deception on Congress, and getting a government they could so manage, under a pretence of improvements, as to parcel contracts out among themselves and fill their own pock ets. And that is what these men are doing now. I venture to assert, that in no other country in the world where the English language is Spoken would anything so shameful and audacious have been tolerated. It was, in fact, nothing less than changing one form of government for another, destroying a good and res ponsible one, and giving the people a bad and irresponsible one, and all this for the accommodation of a few designing men known to the people as desperate and unscrupulous speculators. The same thing was done in New York for the accommodation of Mr. Wm M. Tweed and with his example before them our improvers not only Copied, but so improved on the original, that Wm M. Tweed's exploits have been eclipsed in a single year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.