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Show Where the Fruit Grows. Michael Casey, a. politician in San Francisco, who has been in office and on the city payroll for many years, was addressing a meeting of his fellow-citizens. It was a labor meeting. "You . men must know," spouted Casey, "that you are the great body politic in this city. You are the roots and trunks of our great municipal tree, while we who represent you in office are merely the branches on that magnificent tree." "True for you, Mike," piped a man in the back of the hall, "hut did ye I ever notice all the fruit grows on the j branches?" Saturday Evening Pott. |