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fun to give away other people's money than it is to sit down and wrangle about how wide the stairs should be, whether there's been a compliance with this law or not - perfectly technical thing. It's a lovely thing to hold a hearing and make an award to a workman who has obviously been hurt. It's very much more pleasing to do that. They had neglected everything else except compensation and a good deal of that had just been overlooked completely.

This went on for a few days. I finally had to go and call on the other Republican member of the commission, Lyon, myself. He never did come near my office. It seemed, I learned afterwards, that he had been very badly hurt. He was a good churchman in Brooklyn - I forget what church he belonged to - and it had damaged his feelings frightfully because we had said that he wasn't any good and he wasn't doing his full duty as a public official. He was frightfully hurt. Before long I made a full apology to him. I told him I was sorry I had said these things. I realized that they were not fully proven. I had done it in the heat of political battle. I was very disturbed, with many others, about this failure of the Commission to show that there had been proper action taken by the state in the Diamond Candy Company. He said that nobody was more sorry than he was and





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