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This work is a passionate defense of good government and public service, written by Allen Ripley Foote, a prominent New York City lawyer and civic leader of the early 20th century. Foote argues that politics should be a means to an end, rather than an end in itself, and that the goal of all public officials should be to promote the welfare and prosperity of their constituents.
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