Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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and thunder down fraudulent establishments, and put into the hands of honest men.
The keys of commercial prosperity.
Blessed will be the bargain makers of the city.
That will be a prosperous time, for taxes will be a mere nothing.
Every style of business is taxed now to the utmost city taxes, county taxes, state taxes, United State taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes, stamp taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes.
Our citizens must make a small fortune every year to meet these exactions.
What hand fastens to all of our great industries this tremendous load?
Crime.
We have to pay the board of every man and woman who, by intemperance, is cast into the alms house.
We have to support the orphans of those who plunge themselves into their graves by beastly indulgences.
We support from our pockets the large machinery of municipal government, which is vast just in proportion as the criminal proclivities of the city are great.
What makes necessary hospitals, houses of refuge, police stations, and armhouses, the tombs, sing sing, and Moy Men sing?
In that good time coming, there shall be no exhaustive taxation, no orphans homeless, for parents will be able to leave their children a competency.
No prisons for crime will have given place to virtue.
Then the vast swindles which now from time to time disgrace our cities will be unheard of.
No voting of public money that, on its way to some city improvement, falls into the pockets of those who voted it.
No courts of Oyer and Termina.
At vast expense to the people, no impaneling of juries to inquire about theft, arson, murder, slander, and blackmail.
In that day of redemption there will be better factories, grander architecture, finer equipage, more
Larger estates.
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