You have a
heavy task before you, dear, to keep me, eyes to the goal, running the
race like a thoroughbred. Some day, Lucy, we'll go back to the Canyon,
chins up, work done, gentlemen unafraid!"
Enoch turned more pages, covering a year or so of the diary.
"March 30.--I've been in the City Hall two years today. Lucy, the only
chance on earth I'll ever have to clean out the rookeries of New York
would be to be a Tammany Police Commissioner. And Tammany would
certainly send its best gunman after a Police Commissioner who didn't
dote on rookeries. Lucy, can't city governments be clean? Is human
nature normally and habitually corrupt when it comes to governing a
city? The Mayor and all his appointees are simply wading through the
vast quagmire of the common citizen's indifference, fought every step
by the vile creatures who batten on the administration of the city's
affairs. Do you suppose that if the schools laid tremendous stress on
clean citizenship and began in the kindergarten to teach children how
to govern in the most practical way, it would help? I believe it
would. I'm going to tuck that thought in the back of my head and some
day I may have opportunity to use it. I wish I could do something for
the poor boys of New York.
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