Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Flapdoodle a Political Encyclopaedia and Manual for Public Men
Ambidexterity, - The power of using both hands - double dealing.
This faculty is indispensable to success in political life. It is a modern adaptation of the divine maxim of letting not the right hand know what the left doeth. For example, you will hold up your right hand before the gaze of your fellow men and vaunt its purity, while with the left you will be simultaneously engaged in selling a charter or bribing a traitor; or with one hand you will elevate the standard of purity, and cry Down with corruption, while with the other you pay a pilferer or publish a purloined document.
If taxed with the inconsistency of your professions and actions, you will of course reply that the public (c. E. Party) interests are superior to all merely moral considerations.
In remoter times, certain gay and gallant outlaws made a practice of relieving the poor with the money of which they had robbed the rich, but when caught, they were hanged nevertheless. We are more-enlightened nowadays.
Appointments - Political stock in trade, of which the supply is never equal to the demand. Political promissory notes with a large circulation, supposed to be payable on demand, but in point of fact irredeemable.
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