The Gilded Age


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Mr. Noble--"Then I am become the acknowledged representative of a nation.  
You know as well as I do that the whole nation hold as much as  
three-fifths of the United States Senate in entire contempt.--Three-fifths  
of you are Dilworthys."  
The Sergeant-at-arms very soon put a quietus upon the observations of the  
representative of the nation, and convinced him that he was not, in the  
over-free atmosphere of his Happy-Land-of-Canaan:  
The statement of Senator Dilworthy naturally carried conviction to the  
minds of the committee.--It was close, logical, unanswerable; it bore  
many internal evidences of its truth. For instance, it is customary in  
all countries for business men to loan large sums of money in bank bills  
instead of checks. It is customary for the lender to make no memorandum  
of the transaction. It is customary, for the borrower to receive the  
money without making a memorandum of it, or giving a note or a receipt  
for it's use--the borrower is not likely to die or forget about it.  
It is customary to lend nearly anybody money to start a bank with  
especially if you have not the money to lend him and have to borrow it  
for the purpose. It is customary to carry large sums of money in bank  
bills about your person or in your trunk. It is customary to hand a  
large sure in bank bills to a man you have just been introduced to (if he  
asks you to do it,) to be conveyed to a distant town and delivered to  
another party. It is not customary to make a memorandum of this  
transaction; it is not customary for the conveyor to give a note or a  
receipt for the money; it is not customary to require that he shall get a  
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