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Show Chicago Jails Preferred. Civic patriotism expresses Itself in remarkable re-markable similes. Id Gotham it was Chauncey M. Depew, or at least so the Btory runs, who exclaimed that he would rather he a lamppost in New York than a kiug anywhere else. In a similar manner, doubtless, have citizens of our other large towns declared their undying affection for their pecnliar place of abode in particular, and their scorn for all other places In general. gen-eral. The legend has its varied shapes in Boston and Philadelphia. Here in Chicago the sentiment has probably prob-ably been expressed often enough in one way or another, but hardly as forcibly of did a diner in one of the down town restaurants res-taurants the other day. From amid the clatter of knives and forks and the chatter of diners there floated out suddenly into tho bearing of almost the whole assembly this remark, uttered in a fiercely aggressive tone, accompanied by an emphasizing thump ou the table, "Yes, sir; I would sooner be In jail Iu Chicago than a free man in any other place." If that didn't express tho essence of patriotic pa-triotic self denial what does? Chicago Tribune. |